Okay guys ~
I am posting this so others can learn as we go here and me too ~ Let me state as well that I never moved over any fish as I was contemplating at one time ~
These discus in question are all my awesome fish from Dan ~ he is the sweetest guy I swear.....
always there for me ~ like few others I know and love ~
Last night I noticed a small white spot on my discus ~ that is the first pic you see ~ I decided to wait and see ~ at the same time I noticed my biggest one was alone ~ not like him and I know my fish ~ very well ~ but ~ I blew it off and did a wc and waited ~
This morning the one with the spot looks like the second pic ~ one way for me to confirm what I feel is to feed them... they all ate but not as aggressively as they do ~
My first thought was... as some of you know I had purchased a new discus ...a juvie from our lfs at the same time I got my ONLY LIVE PLANTS ~ {and some Gobies} ~ as Dan helped me to create my driftwood~ this was a week ago approx ~
My new discus has since passed ~ I shld never have got only one ~ something I shall have to live with ~ he passed yesterday ~ yes he was qt'd and I used all separate equipment and rinsed my hands in alcohol and took every precaution I could think of ~except once I believed I forgot to wash my hands after feeding the new discus in qt~something again I will not forget anywhere soon make no mistake about that ~
Last night if I had hit them with meds I could have stopped this from progressing so quick over night but there was
no way to know last night with that one little spot! ~ according to what I have relayed to Dan ~ in his opinion ~ this is Columnaris ~ I read so much on this today and .....wow...
I hit them hard with Furan2 and I know some may not agree but this spread over night so quick and I simply can not justify waiting any longer and applying the salt and wc change plan ~
So pl let me have it ~ bar none ~ I am a little more tough now ~ ( Dan... Candy ...Frank...quiet!)
My questions:
1. Do you think that I brought this home on the plants? I did soak them well and rinsed even better ~ I only had four ~ two died and only two are left attached to the driftwood ~
2. Most likely scenario is I did this personally when I didn't wash my hands after feeding the one in qt?
3. Is Columnaris the same as the BLACK? cuz according to some you might as well toss them now ~
4. Do discus usually bounce back from this?
5. So...when you see slime coat as in these pics YOU wld think of Columnaris straight away? I know that slipping of the slime coat indicates a bacterial infection but my tanks are so clean with reg wc and my fish are not weak and .....I am really upset and confused here ~do not understand how or why this hit them so quick as I thought it was mainly on weak stressed fish?
6. Wld you treat all the other tanks to be sure? Talk about paranoid now! Anything I shld do in re to this? I think I read that is is airborne?? Oh Hell no...
7. Okay.. I used my main Python on this tank now that has this ~ can I soak it in the tub with bleach? I really need to use it for the other tanks. But an outbreak of this on all my tanks wld not work well for me ~
8. Ya know I bought live plants for the first time ...why did I do that? I was soooooo happy with my silk ones....I also got a few gobies ...tiny tiny ones and they are all doing great in their own tank ~ What does that tell anyone?? Cuz should they be ill too? Same fish store....and same tank at home for two days as well ~
9. Does anyone think that changing the brand of fbw that I always use cld have brought this on?
I am sorry for such a long and boring post guys ~ and things that you have all heard and answered before ~ a kajillion ( kk) times! I just am def trippin here and I am worried ~ I have hit them with Furan2 hard ~ double dose ~ I will continue for 10 days at single dose ~ temp at 84...cuz bacteria does grow at higher temp....yes?
Thank you ~
Marie ~