Interesting White Spot Story (well mad)

Got 2 Severum,s last week made a big mistake `school boy error' put them straight into my tank instead of the qt tank

and of-course the bad luck kicked in a week later the dreaded WS. caught them early only them 2 and a black molly had got it

So set up a 32ltr. (my hospital tank) with my own tank water a spare heater at (32d) and a spare filter which is always ready to go cause its in 1 of the running tanks when not being used.

Got the 3 of them put them in, put some Esha exit in. Grand thats them sorted till 2moro
they should be fine in a few days next week they can go back into their home sorted

So i had to sort out the main tank get it topped up turned the heat up added some salt and left the lights off, next day main tank looks fine al is well no WS so far, so il leave the heat up for another day or so and add another little bit of salt

Now 2nd day course on my friend Esha exit in the 32 drop drop done ``JASUS'' `love' that WS has gone already after 1 day its already gone WOW..............BUT THEN oh yeah their is the thermometer F### S### F### it reads 14d yes 14d gobsheen put in the broken spare heater

I now have the good heater in and brought it back up over the day have it at the norm of the main tank 26d fish are flying around well swimming around not a bother with them just going to see how they get on for the next week before sending them home

Have i came across the new miracle way we can kill this dreaded WS nightmare just (freeze it to death)

If you only took out those three fish, you have not treatede the problem, as the parasite will remain in your main tank in various stages of its life cycle. You would need to slowly increase the temperature and treat the whole tank to kill the parasite at only it's vulnerable stage- when free-swimming. I'm afraid you are liable to another outbreak if you did not treat the source.
As for the temperature- at lower temperatures the life cycle of WS is simply slowed down, rendering your medication less effective, as you would have to dose different to the instructions. I would doubt that 14degrees is cold enough to kill any stage of the life cycle by itself. There is the possibility it goes dormant at low temperatures, but your tropical fish would die long before the parasite, so a bit of throwing the baby out with the water scenario!
LoB

eh i did treat the main tank

and no more sign in both tanks

and i was just stating that the fish that had ws and after 24hrs in cold water the ws on the fish had gone, i then of course finished the meds to kill anything dormant

i have found in the past that it takes a few days to see a fish that is covered in ws to clear up no matter what.. me this time 1 day gone

LoB `the ignorance