Sonn84

New here

I have some neon tetras in a temporary 10 gallon tank until I upgrade and tonight I noticed a white "sploch" on the base of ones tail. It doesn't look fuzzy like a fungus or imbedded into the scales. The fish in question doesn't "act sick" it swims and schools fine and eats fine. There is a video link below I would advise putting your monitor on the brightest setting it has the video is kind of dark but you can still see the spot (you can see it best at around 5 sec.) and if you make the video smaller in youtube. Any ideas on what it could be?

KittieKat

Welcome to Fishlore!!

you cant really see anything in the video but if you see a white dot on the tail its something called Ick. not good but treatable at early stages. its a parasite on the fish that chews at it and the white dot that you see (there will be more LOTS more if u dont treat it) is a pus bubble that forms over it. at about 80 degrees the adults will fall to the bottom of the tank and "give birth" to little babies that float around the tank but these babies die easily so keep the temp up!!

all you have to do is slowly raise the temp to 82 degrees and keep it there for 2 weeks or so. the temperature will kill off the parasites.

chemicals are unneeded in this case but things like ick cure and ick II etc kill the parasites in a harsher way plus sometimes kill other bad creatures... when using chemicals u always come across the problem of potentially overdosing...

the choice is yours but im sure most will say just to raise the temp. good luck!

Chief_waterchanger

You have very few of your tank perameter's listed, but Kat is right about the temperature of 82 degrees farenheit. Make sure you only have tropical fish in the tank when you do that though. There are people that try to mix temperate fish (goldfish) and tropicals, and that is never a good idea...especially if raising the temperature into the 80s.

Bibby100

Hi.

I have 4 guppies and the other day I noticed one of them had a few white spots. It turned out it was white spot! It may be the same on your Neon Tetra?

Hope that it helped, a little.

Bibby100