White spot on fish won't go away?

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Ditsy

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We have a 64 litre quarantine tank and a 200 litre normal tank. Currently in the Q tank we have 2 Angels, 3 scissor tails, 2 neons, 1 Pleco and 5 Guppies. The 2 Angels are covered in white spot all over their fins and bodies and have been for nearly two weeks now. We have tried two different white spot treatments and the temperature is at 27.8C. None of the other fish appear to have it but I don't want to transfer them to the other tank just in case they infect the fish in there. The carbon filter has been removed and every other day we have been doing a 25% water change and gravel clean.
Why isn't it going? We are determined not to give up on our poor Angels.
Unfortunately we found that we got them from the petshop with a tank that had white spot.
We're doing everything we can to keep them happy. The PH is 7 and nitrates, nitrites and amonia are all 0. They've got bubbles in the tank. But we have removed all live plants as instructed to do so by the pet shop. We have also added anti stress and the white spot doesn't appear to be bothering their behaviour. At first the Angels didn't look too good as they were keeping to the top and swimming on their sides alot but now they are back to normal. Just covered in spots.
Going to give the baths a try though as due to the Pleco we've been halving the dosage of the meds so not to hurt him.
 
Take it away from the rest of the fish. Then go to the vets they have food flakes that have a treatment inside to get rid of the disese.

Hope this helped :)
 
Your doing the right thing. White spot usually lasts about a month in fish tanks, fish also don't have to present with white spots on them to have Ich, so keeping them separated is the right thing to do.
All you can really do is sit back and wait, you've done everything you can including raising the temperature, removing the activated carbon and put in the treatment. Have you added in any aquarium salts? It works miracles. Use it at a rate of one level tablespoon per 20L of water. Also try putting the infected fish in a salt bath, which is just a more concentrated mix for 5-10 minutes before putting them back in their tank. Some Ich treatments are better then others, I've used Wardley and API, both were excellent and cleared mine up in a matter of days. They are both trusted aquarium brands which can be expensive, but you have to pay for the quality.
Also try adding in stress coat, to reduce the amount of stress on the fish due to the temperature increase, and stress lowers their immune system making them more vulnerable to infections and diseases.
After you've done water changes, you need to add in the treatment you've removed, so if you do 25% water changes, then you need to add back in 1/4 of the treatment you used to replace what you have lost. Don't over do the water changes as you are removing lots of good bacteria which will help ward of the Ich and convert the bad bacteria into good bacteria.
 
Mixing medications often causes problems notably by raising the PH, that causes stress and leads to white spot.

The plec has skin not scales, if it looks healthy, then I would move it to reduce the bioload. Angels are sensitive to their water quality, I would presume they are relatively small if you have just recently acquired them.

If you are doing 25% water changes every other day, then you are removing 25% of the medication each time.

Try starting again from scratch. Do a 50% followed by three daily 25% water changes, then use the same treatment you last used, but keep to the instructions on the bottle.

Stress causes white spot, you need some stability in your water parameters, then their own immune systems can kick in and help fight the disease.
 
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