mattyb
02-28-2014, 05:30 AM
1. Please explain the problems with your fish. When did you notice the problems and did anything unusual happen that you think started them?
Noticed hole in the Head start in 3 of my discus, started to hide when someone walked up 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).
first 3 out of 8 discus showed signs of HinH, treated for HinH, after treatment all healthy but one discus that looks like fins are rotting away, only started happening after the treatment. also VERY thin but is eating, has pinched head but has had this since first had him, never had any problems.
3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.
Treated for Protozoal infestations (cant remember the chemical that was in it, long word but that's what it treats, HinH.)
used exactly the doses recommended, left in for 3 days, did not feed discus in 3 days. after the 3 days did large water change, fed discus twice, than redosed for another 3 days. did this 3 times. all holes healed up and 7 of the discus are happy as anything, eating, at the front of the tank all the time except one discus. looked healthy through the meds. one day after the meds fins started to rot and stayed by himself at the back of the tank, when food is put in tank he still comes up to eat. Don't know what to treat for next
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
were in a 850L tank, until relocated the 8 discus into a 220L quarantine tank to get treated. still in 220L tank.
8 discus around 15 to 18cm. unknown ages
5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
During treating for HinH water change every 3 days. after treatment, daily water change 50 precent (been 12 days since doing daily water changes) it only in these wter changes my one discus has started to rot, all other discus have recovered perfectly.
6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
quarantine tank would of been running for 3 months before putting discus in for treatment
7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
no, no ph swing (using co2 injection with ph controller to set ph to exactly 7
8. Parameters and water source;
Ph 7
tap water conditioned (has 5ppm ammonia in water)
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 32 degrees Celsius
- ph 7
- ammonia reading 0.5 (always between 0 - 0.5)
- nitrite reading 0
- nitrate reading 0.5
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.
Just tap water
9. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.
No
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.
pictures will be in the next post
Noticed hole in the Head start in 3 of my discus, started to hide when someone walked up 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).
first 3 out of 8 discus showed signs of HinH, treated for HinH, after treatment all healthy but one discus that looks like fins are rotting away, only started happening after the treatment. also VERY thin but is eating, has pinched head but has had this since first had him, never had any problems.
3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.
Treated for Protozoal infestations (cant remember the chemical that was in it, long word but that's what it treats, HinH.)
used exactly the doses recommended, left in for 3 days, did not feed discus in 3 days. after the 3 days did large water change, fed discus twice, than redosed for another 3 days. did this 3 times. all holes healed up and 7 of the discus are happy as anything, eating, at the front of the tank all the time except one discus. looked healthy through the meds. one day after the meds fins started to rot and stayed by himself at the back of the tank, when food is put in tank he still comes up to eat. Don't know what to treat for next
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
were in a 850L tank, until relocated the 8 discus into a 220L quarantine tank to get treated. still in 220L tank.
8 discus around 15 to 18cm. unknown ages
5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
During treating for HinH water change every 3 days. after treatment, daily water change 50 precent (been 12 days since doing daily water changes) it only in these wter changes my one discus has started to rot, all other discus have recovered perfectly.
6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
quarantine tank would of been running for 3 months before putting discus in for treatment
7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
no, no ph swing (using co2 injection with ph controller to set ph to exactly 7
8. Parameters and water source;
Ph 7
tap water conditioned (has 5ppm ammonia in water)
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 32 degrees Celsius
- ph 7
- ammonia reading 0.5 (always between 0 - 0.5)
- nitrite reading 0
- nitrate reading 0.5
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.
Just tap water
9. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.
No
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.
pictures will be in the next post