fungus on gills?? labored breathing...

[Stonecrazy6]

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?

White spots on Melon's gill plates a few days ago, has some whitish short string like areas inside gills for a few weeks...
Checkered Turquoise and Altum has had exaggerated gill movements and inside gill plates protrude out beyond outside covering... was like this since arriving almost a month ago.

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).

Most fish now look stressed, droopy fins. Melon will eat some bloodworms, kind of shy and hides some of the time.. All other fish eating well. I have seen some stringy lighter color feces, unsure which fish.
Checkerboard is looking the most stressed, extreme clamped fins, stress bars showing now.. still very active and eating LOTS... this is the border collie of fish!! real high drive fish!!


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

two weeks ago, treated for gill flukes. Parasite guard, two treatments 48 hours apart, 9 tablets.
fish were flashing occasionally. flashing stopped when I started using aged water to stabilize ph.

Tank/Water

4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
90 gallon tank with 10g sump.
7 fish 3 -6", 3 - 4", 1 -3"

5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
40% every three days

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

7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
yes, water is aged. ph is stable at 8.1 ish

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 __8.1___

- ammonia reading _0___

- nitrite reading __0__

- nitrate reading ___5ppm_

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 __70%__

- RO water _30%___


9. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently. all fish are new, arrived November 11th no plants..


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.




I can take a better photo of the melon.. it is late and the lights are off now.. white non-fuzzy spot is on both sides.. a few string like white marks inside gills..

[pcsb23]

Initially I'd increase the frequency of water changes before adding more meds.

[Stonecrazy6]

Just now I see the Melon has one gill clamped shut..

[pcsb23]

See how they get on with the increased water changes for now.