More pic of the discus. I did 75% WC with other day of the esha treatment. No changes. They do not worsen not go better.
1. Please explain the problems with your fish. When did you notice the problems and did anything unusual happen that you think started them?
A 10 days ago I bought and received in good conditions one spotted leopard pair from one good German source (Thirsday). Previously I prepared the breeding tank as I always prepare for other breeding pairs. The pair was swimming well, after 1 or 2 days they were starting to eat and addapt very well, I did 40% WC on Saturday and another on Monday. after Monday they started with fins clamped hiding behind the cone. On Wednesday I did other WC and they suddenly started to get darken, loosing colour of skin, with patches,cotton velvet, fins rot, cloudy eyes. Almost to die. Water parameters were good the same as other breeding tanks with the same WC.
I thought that maybe something toxic in the water, than I bought the gallons of water from store and mixed with Ro. I did WC every 8 hours.The situations were getting worse and worse. I put them in other aquarium for a while (from which I removed other happy pair) thinking that maybe something special was in other tank.
Yesterday I put the eSHA 2000 to see whether are bacteria. Now is on 24 hours treatment. Still alive and not getting worse.
Please help if you know what is it. Looking on google could be Columnaris. Has paches of collourless skin and velvet.
Can Columnaris make the symptoms so quickly in literally 2 or 3 days?
Anybody had the same case?
3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.
Esha 2000, I am on 1st day of treatment
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
Breeding pair, 30g acuarium. Fishes 15cm each
5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
Every second day 50% of WC
6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
Bare bottom
7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
Aging the waste water from Ro for 2-3 days
8. What type/brand water conditioner do you use? Do you add it to the tank or aging barrel? How much do you use?
9. 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 28oC
- ph 7,2
- 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 (Ro waste) 10%
- RO water 90%
10. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.
New breeding pair
11. Please tell us what you feed your fish and how often. This can be critical information for solving the problem so be as specific as you can.
twice beefheart
12. 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.[/QUOTE]
More pic of the discus. I did 75% WC with other day of the esha treatment. No changes. They do not worsen not go better.