White spots on fish
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Welcome to R2R!
Can you please provide pictures of the fish in question so we can better determine what sickness were dealing withm White spots are most commonly either ich, velvet, or lymphocysts. If its ich or velvet you'll want to move all fish over to a quarantine tank and treat them with chloroquine phosphate or copper and let the main tank sit without fish for up to 78 days. Remember to never treat illness in your display tank. If its lymphocysts there isnt much that can be done. It's a viral infection which cannot be treated. Just maintain great water quality and keep the fish fed with vitamin enriched foods
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welcome to the forum.
not sure if your question is about prevention or treatment looked more like how to prevent...
prevention is easy via quarantine but no guarantees as ich ro velvet can still skip Qurantine as cysts might come in with LR or corals... or fish can still carry disease with suboptimal qurantine so most of the time it's about improving health and immunity of the fish so they can live with it.
qurantine is of course key
choosing healthy specimens
feeding quality food and boosting with vitamins.
reducing stress by minimizing fish known to fight.
keeping tank paramenters stable especially temp, PH, so fish stress less.
not sure if your question is about prevention or treatment looked more like how to prevent...
prevention is easy via quarantine but no guarantees as ich ro velvet can still skip Qurantine as cysts might come in with LR or corals... or fish can still carry disease with suboptimal qurantine so most of the time it's about improving health and immunity of the fish so they can live with it.
qurantine is of course key
choosing healthy specimens
feeding quality food and boosting with vitamins.
reducing stress by minimizing fish known to fight.
keeping tank paramenters stable especially temp, PH, so fish stress less.
