Possible Rot, please advise

[Aman32]

DISEASE QUESTIONNAIRE


Problem

1. Please explain the problems with your fish. When did you notice the problems and did anything unusual happen that you think started them?

About 3 weeks ago this discus had a small, white, puffy spot. I was away for a week and upon my return, the white spot has grown substantially. The skin appears to be rotting away.

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).

Large white spot.

3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.

2 seperate treatments of PP

Tank/Water

4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.

125G, 8 months old, 9 discus (4.5-8 inches), 21 rummynose, 4 oto, 6 raspora

5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
80% weekly

6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
Planted tank, dark flourite substrate, 2-3 inches

7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
no aging, new york city tap with pond prime

8. Parameters and water source;

Note: Water Parameters are important in diagnosing problems within a tank. If you don't own test kits for the following information, you can purchase them, test your parameters and post this info as soon as possible.


- temp _82____

- ph __7.0___

- ammonia reading _0___

- 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.

- well water ____

- municipal water __100__

- RO water ____


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.
IMG_2987.jpg

[nc0gnet0]

Take the fish and perform either a salt dip or a PP did. Then place the fish in a sterile QT tank, dose with furan-2 and kanamycin.

Start performing daily water changes on your display tank of at least 80% daily for a week to "flush"the system, then perhaps lower to 50% daily for another week.

Your fish appear to have columnaris, is this kind of a fuzzy looking patch?

[Aman32]

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll give it a shot... and yes, it started as a fuzzy patch.

[nc0gnet0]

Your going to need a qt tank for this, don't do a salt dip (or pp) and return the fish back into the display tank, Issues such as this are almost always the result of poor water quality.

[Aman32]

Fish is in 13g qt.

I was able to get furan2 and erythromycin. Which should I do first? Both at Same time?

Thanks.


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[nc0gnet0]

first perform one of either a salt dip OR a PP dip them place int the tank with the furan 2. Not sure how well they erythromycin would mix with the furan-2, this I have not tried and until and if I ever do, would not recommend.