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    Default Discus Cheek Peeling

    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?


    Skin on cheek is starting to look like it is peeling off under his right eye towards the bottom of the jaw. Looks to be worse than some of the inital slime coat issues I experienced when I first introduced the discus to the tank.

    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).


    loss of appetite, hanging in a corner, skin on face peeling.

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

    Stress guard for the slime coat and doing daily water changes. I also ordered a new canister filter because I've been reading that my Hob filters may not be doing a good enough job filtering the tank.

    Tank/Water

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

    55 gallons, set up in December, has 5 discus, 14 Rasbora and a flame gourami.

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

    30% every other day. Doing daily now.

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

    It is planted with sand substrate. Standard 55 gallon size. Been running since decemeber.

    7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.

    I age my water with a 20 gallong bucket. Not much swings, but it comes out the tap at lik 7.6 and mellows out after a day or so down to around 6.8-7

    8. What type/brand water conditioner do you use? Do you add it to the tank or aging barrel? How much do you use?

    Prime

    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 _____ 84 degrees

    - ph _____ 6.8

    - ammonia reading ____ 0

    - nitrite reading ____ 0

    - nitrate reading ____ 5 ppm

    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.

    Tap water.

    10. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.

    no

    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.

    I feed the fish two times a day. Rasbora get flakes and Discus/grouami eat vibra bites, bloodworms, and brine shrimp.

    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 plan to up my filtration, do more water changes, and continue to add stress guard, but I am not sure if there is something else I should do. This fish was suffering from HITH when I got it. It seemed to recover even though the holes haven't gone away.
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