Anyone Know If Rummynose Tetras Are Prone To Whitespot?

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Anyone know if rummynose tetras are prone to whitespot?
« on: January 04, 2016, 08:48:46 PM »
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My entire shoal has suddenly developed white spot. The only change is the new rainbow goby female and she's not affected.

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Re: Anyone know if rummynose tetras are prone to whitespot?
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2016, 09:13:50 PM »
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They could be. I've noticed then whenever I've had whitespot my green neon tetras have been very badly affected while other species have got away much lighter, some with no spots at all.
It could well be that the new goby brought the infection in. Even a drop of water with some of the second stage cysts in it could cause an outbreak.

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Re: Anyone know if rummynose tetras are prone to whitespot?
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2016, 01:25:21 AM »
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Gawd! After I get over this I'm sticking a filter in one of the big tanks to keep it active for a quarantine tank. MTS is a pain sometimes.

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Re: Anyone know if rummynose tetras are prone to whitespot?
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2016, 01:42:54 PM »
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Gawd! After I get over this I'm sticking a filter in one of the big tanks to keep it active for a quarantine tank.

That's what I do, I quarantine new stock for a fortnight before introducing to the main tank.

Also handy to have a small tank handy for use as an isolation/hospital tank in emergencies.

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Re: Anyone know if rummynose tetras are prone to whitespot?
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2016, 07:20:42 PM »
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Likewise. I would always use a quarantine tank. In fact, I found myself in the situation of needing both a quarantine tank and a hospital tank simultaneously - the newly arrived harlequins were in the quarantine tank when the first casualty occurred in the main tank and needed hospitalised.

I now have an old, glass tank stored up high in a cupboard which is the spare tank (in the event of a le*k - can't bear to utter that fearful word) or quarantine tank for any newbies or if I had to hospitalise a lot of fish together, and I have a smaller, lightweight, plastic, easily retrievable tank for emergencies such as one or two fish needing hospitalised.

I have one spare heater and keep two filters in the main tank so that one can be removed for use in the spare/quarantine tank or hospital tank as required.

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