Freakdaddy
11-18-2004, 04:07 PM
DISEASE QUESTIONNAIRE
Problem
1. Please explain the problems with your fish/when and how they started
I have 2 red spotted leopards the smaller I have just cured of gill flukes but is still thin and hardly eating its bigger buddy was as fit as a fiddle and the tank boss(these fish are in my avatar slot) while i was at work today he seems to have invented a new way of swimming(see below) but is still trying to show everybody who's boss. After losing 2 cobalts in recent months(Hunger strike and a Heart attack I think) and about of food poisoning(posted elsewhere)this is beggining to get me down.ps Ithink the cobalts may have been the start of all this.20 plus years of keeping cichlids and I have had to deal with more sickness in the last 6 months than in all that time
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)
turning dark
headstanding
Swimming in a strange wiggly fashion
my wife says it passed a round grey poo
3. What medications/ treatments that you have already tried and results. Include dosages and duration of treatment.
All the fish in this tank have had a formalin bath for flukes(last week) were wormed 3 days ago ,yesterday changed 30% water and added tonic salt 1tbsp per 5 gals .
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and age, number and size of fish
190l Trigon corner tank.4 minnows 4 corys 1yoyo loach 2 clown pleco 1 golden nugget 5 Discus
5. Water change regime/ how long has tank been running/ bare bottom or gravel/ do you age your water
30% a week
8 months Biotope gravel bogwood java fern etc;no water is not aged just warmed up
6 Parameters and water source
- temp _84____
- ph _7.2____
- ammonia reading __0__
- nitrite reading __0__
- nitrate reading __0__
- well water __no__
- municipal water __yes filtered mixed 4 to 1 with ro__
7. Any new fish/plants added recently no
Problem
1. Please explain the problems with your fish/when and how they started
I have 2 red spotted leopards the smaller I have just cured of gill flukes but is still thin and hardly eating its bigger buddy was as fit as a fiddle and the tank boss(these fish are in my avatar slot) while i was at work today he seems to have invented a new way of swimming(see below) but is still trying to show everybody who's boss. After losing 2 cobalts in recent months(Hunger strike and a Heart attack I think) and about of food poisoning(posted elsewhere)this is beggining to get me down.ps Ithink the cobalts may have been the start of all this.20 plus years of keeping cichlids and I have had to deal with more sickness in the last 6 months than in all that time
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)
turning dark
headstanding
Swimming in a strange wiggly fashion
my wife says it passed a round grey poo
3. What medications/ treatments that you have already tried and results. Include dosages and duration of treatment.
All the fish in this tank have had a formalin bath for flukes(last week) were wormed 3 days ago ,yesterday changed 30% water and added tonic salt 1tbsp per 5 gals .
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and age, number and size of fish
190l Trigon corner tank.4 minnows 4 corys 1yoyo loach 2 clown pleco 1 golden nugget 5 Discus
5. Water change regime/ how long has tank been running/ bare bottom or gravel/ do you age your water
30% a week
8 months Biotope gravel bogwood java fern etc;no water is not aged just warmed up
6 Parameters and water source
- temp _84____
- ph _7.2____
- ammonia reading __0__
- nitrite reading __0__
- nitrate reading __0__
- well water __no__
- municipal water __yes filtered mixed 4 to 1 with ro__
7. Any new fish/plants added recently no