ProbablyScotty
08-19-2013, 06:51 AM
Hello there.
Been browsing your lovely forums for a while but now I have a problem that I thought was a one off when it happened a year ago, but now a fish from different stock appears to be suffering the same. Any help identifying it would be appreciated, at the moment I'm going on it being bacterial, but I don't know how quickly after adding Interpet no 9 and salt I should see an improvement.
Hoping someone knows what it is, thank you.
DISEASE QUESTIONNAIRE
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?
4 days ago a small wound like a picked off scale appeared, it’s steadily grown since then to the stage it is now.
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).
Only symptom is the wound. Edges are raised and swollen, slightly larger than yesterday. Fish is still eating, fins still raised, colour good, still comes to feed by hand. Lost an adult discus to the same thing nearly a year ago, it stretched up in a band to cover the whole side of the fish and bridged over the top before it got too much for her.
3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.
Added Interpet no. 9 (10 ml per 100l) and Ektozon (10g per 100l) yesterday,
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
640 litre aquarium, 2 metres long, 60 cm tall, 47-60 cm deep (bow front), 17 discus from 7 cm to 16cm (will be less as they grow to adult size). 14 glass bloodfin tetra, some corydoras, 5 kubotai botia. All fish been happy in there for over 4 months, some for over a year.
5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
40% every 2 to 3 days, FX6 filter fitted.
6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
Over a year with 2 mil gravel substrate. Planted, substrate approx 5cm deep
7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
I don’t age it.
8. 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 _____ 29c
- ph _____ 6.5
- ammonia reading ____ 0
- nitrite reading ____ 0
- nitrate reading ____ 25
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 ____ 100% (however, this is Sweden and the water is very different from anywhere else I’ve lived.)
- RO water ____
9. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.
Aponogeton longiplumosus and aponogetum boivianus 5 weeks ago.
10. 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.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15673894@N00/9546454726/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15673894@N00/9543666785/
Been browsing your lovely forums for a while but now I have a problem that I thought was a one off when it happened a year ago, but now a fish from different stock appears to be suffering the same. Any help identifying it would be appreciated, at the moment I'm going on it being bacterial, but I don't know how quickly after adding Interpet no 9 and salt I should see an improvement.
Hoping someone knows what it is, thank you.
DISEASE QUESTIONNAIRE
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?
4 days ago a small wound like a picked off scale appeared, it’s steadily grown since then to the stage it is now.
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).
Only symptom is the wound. Edges are raised and swollen, slightly larger than yesterday. Fish is still eating, fins still raised, colour good, still comes to feed by hand. Lost an adult discus to the same thing nearly a year ago, it stretched up in a band to cover the whole side of the fish and bridged over the top before it got too much for her.
3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.
Added Interpet no. 9 (10 ml per 100l) and Ektozon (10g per 100l) yesterday,
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
640 litre aquarium, 2 metres long, 60 cm tall, 47-60 cm deep (bow front), 17 discus from 7 cm to 16cm (will be less as they grow to adult size). 14 glass bloodfin tetra, some corydoras, 5 kubotai botia. All fish been happy in there for over 4 months, some for over a year.
5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
40% every 2 to 3 days, FX6 filter fitted.
6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
Over a year with 2 mil gravel substrate. Planted, substrate approx 5cm deep
7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
I don’t age it.
8. 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 _____ 29c
- ph _____ 6.5
- ammonia reading ____ 0
- nitrite reading ____ 0
- nitrate reading ____ 25
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 ____ 100% (however, this is Sweden and the water is very different from anywhere else I’ve lived.)
- RO water ____
9. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.
Aponogeton longiplumosus and aponogetum boivianus 5 weeks ago.
10. 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.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15673894@N00/9546454726/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15673894@N00/9543666785/