Help with white spot/string from my fish.

[Sandip]

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 spot or thread hanging from discus fins (top fin). Not aware of anything unusual. Discus eating well and moving well. Not seeing any loss in appetite or hiding behavior.


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).

- Problem 1. Noticed a white spot on ONE fish fin. Pictures below.
- Problem 2: Noticed what seemed like very thin white string hanging from another fish body. Unable to photograph.


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

- Rock salt at 1 tbsp per 10 gallons.

Tank/Water

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

- 50 gallons. Age 1.5 months. 6 fishes.


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

- 25% daily in the evening. Match the water temp. Aged for 10-12 hours. Aerated by airstone.


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

- 1.5 months. Bare bottom


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

- Yes I age. 10-12 hours. ph swing after water change is 0.2 or less.


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

- Seachem prime. Food grade barrel.


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 __84.5___

- ph ___7.1 to 7.2__

- ammonia reading __0__

- nitrite reading __0__

- nitrate reading __20__

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 __Yes__

- RO water ____


10. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.
- No new fish. Only 6 discus.


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.
- 3-4 times a day. 2 times with australian freeze dried blackworms. 1 time with GHM. 1 time Discus gold pellet.


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.
-attached below.
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[Sandip]

Is this anchor worm? Or is this ich?
My water is reasonably clean. I never miss changing 25% water. Always vacuum out poop at the end of the day. However much tired I am.
Should I do PP bath? I can treat the fish in the tank itself. Since I have another tank almost ready. As I was working on moving them to a larger 70 gallon tank anyway.

[Iminit]

Looks to me like a discus pimple. Sure sign you need to change more water. It will go away with daily water changes.

[brewmaster15]

Should I do PP bath?
No!!!!!!!


Its not anchor worm. Its hard to clearly see but From where its at on the fish it looks like a small injury has some secondary fungus on it... did you notice any injuries? Improving water quality is a good suggestion.


I would run the tank with a higher dose of salt for several days. 1 level tablespoon per. 3 gals water . Seems alot but its not. You can go much higher than that safely.

[Sandip]

Message received. No PP bath.
I changed 50% water today. Will add higher concentration of salt (api aquarium salt).
And keep a watch.

[fljones3]

If I were in your shoes, I would do the salt as Al mentions. I would add — replace 1 of the FDBW with pellets. Increase the WC from 25% to close to 50% for a couple of weeks (if not, just stay at that level). This will improve your water quality.

[Sandip]

If I were in your shoes, I would do the salt as Al mentions. I would add — replace 1 of the FDBW with pellets. Increase the WC from 25% to close to 50% for a couple of weeks (if not, just stay at that level). This will improve your water quality.

Thank you Frank. That is what I plan to do. 50% water change will be significant work. Wish me luck. Got a 55 gallon barrel from Short Pump homedepot today. Need to set it up.

[Sandip]

Just a quick update. The white spots I was seeing slowly have gone away. I have been changing 80% water a day since the last post in this thread.

[fljones3]

Nice!