Below is my questionnaire about my poor baby. Please help if you can.
1. Please explain the problems with your fish. When did you notice the problems and did anything unusual happen that you think started them?
When we got the fish about 7mos ago, we suspect that he had an accident (maybe net) during the transportation, because shortly after we noticed an injured eye that eventually healed but he appeared to be blind in it.
2. Symptoms (i.e. turning dark, excess slime, not eating, clamped fins, flashing, darting, clamped gills, white/yellow/green poop, hiding, headstanding or tailstanding, white on tips of fins, rotting or fungus, blisters/white zits on fish, bloated, cloudy eyes, wounds).
He has lost a lot of weight lately and is getting darker by the day. Three days ago he started getting white fuzz all over him. But he is still eating.
3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.
Nothing with this one. We have 6 discus in a 60 gallon tank. Some of them were sick for short periods of times (stopped eating and stringy poop) and nurtured back to health within 7-10 days in a 5 gallon hospital tank treating with Metro and higher temperatures (88-90 degrees). Main tank is at 86 degrees. Just the last one we had in the HT did not make a complete recovery. He started eating but after putting him back in the tank he stopped again. This is one of my two problem children but this is not the “blind” one who is getting darker and darker. The dark one still eats.
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
60g. Six discus. All under 1.5 years old. We got them together from the same breeder.
5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
30% once a week. Lately we got so busy and have been bad and only did it every 10 days for about 1.5 months.
6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
About 12 months. We had other fish until we felt we were ready for discus. We moved the other fish and got the discus after about 5-6 months. We have white sand but every time we vacuum lots is coming out so we are almost at bare bottom stage.
7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
We have an RO water system with a heater and oxygen.
8. Parameters and water source;
- temp 86
- ph 6
- ammonia reading .25
- nitrite reading 0
- nitrate reading 0
What type of water or combinations of water sources do you use? If it is an RO/tap/well water mix, please list percentages in the mix.
- RO water 100%
9. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.
No
10. Include any pictures or videos you have which shows the symptoms. If you can't add them to this post, please provide a link to them.
Should I put both of them in the same 5 gallon hospital tank or in a bigger one or treat separately?