LouDogge
08-30-2019, 08:41 PM
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?
Has been going on for several weeks now5 or 6 weeks. Noticed 1 discus getting dark at times then normal. He kept eating with the group and lightened up when food was around. Then started turning dark more often and cloudy eyes started.
Discus was in 75 gal tank with 5 others. All others are doing well with no signs of illness. I change 70% water every other day sometimes daily.
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).
Dark in color and clouded eyes
3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.
In separate hospital tank
I treated with furan 2 for 6 days. No visible improvement.
Week off clean only clean water
Flubendazole 7 days no results
Week off only clean water
Currently on day 6 of metro and kanamycin treatment
Seems to have a bit of color back at times. Still mostly dark with clouded eyes
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
In hospital 20g
5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
90% every 12 hrs
6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
Hospital tank
7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
Yes. 12 hours right now. No real ph swing
Aerate and heat
8. What type/brand water conditioner do you use? Do you add it to the tank or aging barrel? How much do you use?
Prime added to tank since no bio filter while dosing kanamycin.
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 ____83_
- ph _____ 8.2
- ammonia reading ____0
- nitrite reading ____0
- nitrate reading ____0
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 ____yes
- municipal water ____
- RO water ____
10. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.
No
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.
Only eat fdbw and some flake. Feed 1 -2 times /day
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.
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1. Please explain the problems with your fish. When did you notice the problems and did anything unusual happen that you think started them?
Has been going on for several weeks now5 or 6 weeks. Noticed 1 discus getting dark at times then normal. He kept eating with the group and lightened up when food was around. Then started turning dark more often and cloudy eyes started.
Discus was in 75 gal tank with 5 others. All others are doing well with no signs of illness. I change 70% water every other day sometimes daily.
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).
Dark in color and clouded eyes
3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.
In separate hospital tank
I treated with furan 2 for 6 days. No visible improvement.
Week off clean only clean water
Flubendazole 7 days no results
Week off only clean water
Currently on day 6 of metro and kanamycin treatment
Seems to have a bit of color back at times. Still mostly dark with clouded eyes
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
In hospital 20g
5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
90% every 12 hrs
6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
Hospital tank
7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
Yes. 12 hours right now. No real ph swing
Aerate and heat
8. What type/brand water conditioner do you use? Do you add it to the tank or aging barrel? How much do you use?
Prime added to tank since no bio filter while dosing kanamycin.
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 ____83_
- ph _____ 8.2
- ammonia reading ____0
- nitrite reading ____0
- nitrate reading ____0
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 ____yes
- municipal water ____
- RO water ____
10. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.
No
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.
Only eat fdbw and some flake. Feed 1 -2 times /day
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.
124645