Hi Everyone,
I have one 60g aquarium with growing 10 discus. (some leopards and albino platinum)
Recently I have notices the white spots on 3 discus fishes and I have treated with Seachem Cupramine with success.
At the same time I have noticed the strange appearances on the skin of this discus. As you see when this fish has normal colour (not turning dark) it is very hard to see it. It looks like fadding out the colour at some places on the skin. It is like a white pathes, velvet but can only be seen whe turns black. As you can see sometimes during the day it turns black. Hard breeding but it is decreasing during yesterday and today. After Cupramine of 3-4 days I have cange it in ESHA EXIT that treats fungus and white spots. No success. I increased amount of salt but no changes.The fish eats well.
Bacteria or Fungus?
The photos are hte same fish. Please note when the colour is nice the patches on the skin
What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.
Cupramine, Esha Exit, finish the treatment cycles
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
60g acuarium. Fishes 10 cm each
5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
Every second day 60% 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, external canister EDEM filter
7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
Aging the waste water from for 2-3 days, mixing Waste/Ro 25%/75%
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 ____10
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)25%
- RO water 75%
10. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.
one month ago 2 albino platinums
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.
I cannot attach the images because fail to update.
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