Sick Discus?

[b125killer]

1. Please explain the problems with your fish. When did you notice the problems and did anything unusual happen that you think started them?
Redness in the base if fins and redness in the head.

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).
There hasn’t been any symptoms othe then the redness. Still eats good, active, begs for food.

3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.
I haven’t used any meds on this tank.

Tank/Water

4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
29 gallons, less than a year, 3 discus, 2.5 inches

5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
50% daily

6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
1 month, bare bottom

7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
yes, can’t remember what the swing is.

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 _84__

- ph _7.2_

- ammonia reading __0 _

- nitrite reading __0__

- nitrate reading __5.0__

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% filtered__

- RO water ____


9. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.
I got two new discus 4 weeks ago. I got them in a quarantine tank. They were in there for a week and I added another discus. They were all doing good until a few days ago I noticed the redness starting to show. The discus that I added was in a discus only tank and was in there for 6 months. Him and the other discus in the tank are doing fine.

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.
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[LizStreithorst]

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[nc0gnet0]

This is one of the new fish, in which you have had for four weeks correct?

Then you added a test fish from your current stock (three weeks ago), that fish is doing fine?

Hard to tell from the pics, is the redness underneath the skin and showing through?

If so I might opt to treat with kanamycin.

How big was the discus that you added from your existing stock? Any signs of bullying the younger fish?

Just so you know, the fish you want to treat has a gill plate defect, and the kanamycin is not cheap. It might be better to cull the fish and simply buy a new one, but that's up to you.