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Here are my first altum batch. 10months with me. All of them are from same batch/month/year. I still cant believe the size differences.
Here you are Varna
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Here are my first altum batch. 10months with me. All of them are from same batch/month/year. I still cant believe the size differences.
Altum_Yawn.jpg Rreewwwff. I like it !!!!!!!!
Hi pat,
Would love to see how they turned out in these past 2months please post video
Hi Varma,
As I mentioned before these altums went thru a rough patch over Christmas when I had company for a month resulting in them hiding for up to three months. I lost three of the nine over this period and lost one recently after a large water change. Of the five left they have returned to normal behavior wise and eat like pigs. However they developed pink noses and some pink lines bordering the body. I have been in contact with one of the finarama folk and he thinks this is a bacteria (Mark of Discus Origins confirmed this) perhaps caused by stress. I am treating this with antibiotics in food but may have waited to late to treat this. So if I can not clear it up I will be culling the group.
I also started with a new batch of babies and they are doing well. I am taking the lessons learned on this batch and appling it to the second batch which is doing very well.
Pat
Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
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Hi Pat,
I don't like using antibiotics in food because it seams to get diluted real fast in the water before the Discus can eat it, unless you use a food like Discus Bits or other pellets, so it can sink in and the Discus eat it right away as soon as it reaches the water.I am treating this with antibiotics in food but may have waited to late to treat this. So if I can not clear it up I will be culling the group.
I have even put a little Metro in with about a ounce or two of my cultured Live Tubifex worms or live black worms and let them soak it in for about five or ten minutes. If you put to much in you will kill them ...just enough so they will be alive when you feed your Discus....this might take some practice.I have done this many times over the years.
When I got my Altums last November they looked like they were about 4 or 5 months old. I bought six and was having problems and I guessed it was Columnaris I treated with Furan-2 that didn't seam to help and two kicked the bucket.
Then I read about Fucin that Bill from Inland Empire Discus was selling so I bought some and it seamed to work and my four Altums are now healthy and growing strong and big http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...E-AVAILABILITY
Hope this helped ...don't give up.
Rick
Hi Rick,
I am actually working with one of the guys over at finarama on this and he though my med delivery system might work. I take about a 1/8 teaspoon of the kanamycin and add it to a small water bottle and fill the bottle half full. I then take a tiny bit of the liquid and add it to a small cup. I place the small cup in the mic for 5 seconds to warm the water a wee bit and place one of Al's FDBW cubes in the cup to allow it to adsorb the liquid. Once the cube can adsorb all it can I press it against the glass and the cube is gone within a minute.
I have just completed a 10 day treatment and will allow the fish to rest. While the fish have brighten up a bit and have a bit of color return to their eyes and pinkness remains the same. Mark (Discus Origins) suggested the fish have had the bacteria so long that it may be impossible to treat and Mike the finarama guy also suggests it may take two treatments so this is where I am with the fish.
I am raising a new group of altums and they are doing very well.
Pat
Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
Hi Pat,
Yes FDBW will work.
I want to say something about what I said,
This is a last resort used only when the Discus will not eat..they have to get the metro into there gut in order for it to kill the hex, and live worms might be to tempting and they eat it on instinct.I have even put a little Metro in with about a ounce or two of my cultured Live Tubifex worms or live black worms and let them soak it in for about five or ten minutes. If you put to much in you will kill them ...just enough so they will be alive when you feed your Discus
I hope your Altums get well soon under your don't give up attitude.
Rick