g8torjohn
01-01-2004, 11:00 PM
Please Help.
We have a 65 gallon tank with 8 juvenile discus. Everything was swimming along until this past week. We noticed small pimple-like white bumps on one of our fish. This had occurred once prior and we treated with metrodinazole with satisfactory results. This time not so good. We now notice that two other fish have similar pimples. The original fish's pimples have subsided, but we noticed labored breathing in all of the fish. One morning after we treated with met all the fish (including the tetras in the tank) and snails were at the top of the tank with the appearance of gulping air. We had a 40%-50% wc, and they seemed better. But the breathing still is rapid and the smallest discus still goes to the top (this is over the course of several days, with several partial wc's). We are afraid to stop treating with met (since there still are the pimples -- which we assume is early hth). What can we do? They still eat, we add only ro water (as we live in fla), have live plants, filter with a fluval carbon unit and change our water once a week.
We have a 65 gallon tank with 8 juvenile discus. Everything was swimming along until this past week. We noticed small pimple-like white bumps on one of our fish. This had occurred once prior and we treated with metrodinazole with satisfactory results. This time not so good. We now notice that two other fish have similar pimples. The original fish's pimples have subsided, but we noticed labored breathing in all of the fish. One morning after we treated with met all the fish (including the tetras in the tank) and snails were at the top of the tank with the appearance of gulping air. We had a 40%-50% wc, and they seemed better. But the breathing still is rapid and the smallest discus still goes to the top (this is over the course of several days, with several partial wc's). We are afraid to stop treating with met (since there still are the pimples -- which we assume is early hth). What can we do? They still eat, we add only ro water (as we live in fla), have live plants, filter with a fluval carbon unit and change our water once a week.