fishwithoutwater
04-18-2005, 08:25 PM
Hello Board,
New guy here who I'm sure will annoy you in no time at all :)
I have always been into crazy hobbies and a friend of mine showed me some discus pictures(darn him.) So I am now knee deep in aquariums.
I got myself some Blue Turquoise at the local pet store but their stock leaved a little to be desired. I decided to get some fish online mainly because I only had two fish which I have come to learn is not something I wanted.
I ordered two leopard discus to be delivered Wednesday the 20th. To my bad luck I got an email the next night saying they would be here tomorrow. Wrong Wednesday they picked DOH!
I had to trust my roommates to get my fish in my quarantine tank which I know they did properly. Everything in that tank was perfect and identical to my other tank which my others are thriving in.
I came home to one already dead and one looking sicker then I could even imagine. I got on the boards and messaged a few people. I figured the first thing that I needed to do was get some high salt volumes in the water. I started by putting 4 tablespoons in my 10gallon. I then changed the water out daily with aged, heated, balanced water with 2 tablespoons of salt. It has now been 5 days and the fish has made an amazing recovery over the last couple days. His fins are no longer clamped.. and they have stopped rotting. The slime has stopped growing all over the poor guy. It looked to me like he had what some of you refer to as "discus plague" matched all the symptoms. You name it and it looked like the poor guy had it.
Despite the fact that he looks better and is swimming around he still wont really eat. Just today he started pecking at some food a little. I have tried several things.. freeze dried blood warms (what they were fed at the breeder), frozen blood worms.. and today some hikari discus pellets(this is what he actually pecked at.)
My question is from what I have been reading I wanted to treat him with salt first because it was possible he might die if I tried dosing with medication right away.
What's next? Since he is not eating but seems healthier on the outside I would imagine internal parasites. Should I dose the tank with some Epsom salts first to try to clean him out so he will eat? or should I dose with something to kill the internals? or both at the same time? It has been a rocky road and there is some light at the end of the tunnel I don't want to screw up now. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Temp: 86F
WC: 50% daily RO
PH: 6.7
New guy here who I'm sure will annoy you in no time at all :)
I have always been into crazy hobbies and a friend of mine showed me some discus pictures(darn him.) So I am now knee deep in aquariums.
I got myself some Blue Turquoise at the local pet store but their stock leaved a little to be desired. I decided to get some fish online mainly because I only had two fish which I have come to learn is not something I wanted.
I ordered two leopard discus to be delivered Wednesday the 20th. To my bad luck I got an email the next night saying they would be here tomorrow. Wrong Wednesday they picked DOH!
I had to trust my roommates to get my fish in my quarantine tank which I know they did properly. Everything in that tank was perfect and identical to my other tank which my others are thriving in.
I came home to one already dead and one looking sicker then I could even imagine. I got on the boards and messaged a few people. I figured the first thing that I needed to do was get some high salt volumes in the water. I started by putting 4 tablespoons in my 10gallon. I then changed the water out daily with aged, heated, balanced water with 2 tablespoons of salt. It has now been 5 days and the fish has made an amazing recovery over the last couple days. His fins are no longer clamped.. and they have stopped rotting. The slime has stopped growing all over the poor guy. It looked to me like he had what some of you refer to as "discus plague" matched all the symptoms. You name it and it looked like the poor guy had it.
Despite the fact that he looks better and is swimming around he still wont really eat. Just today he started pecking at some food a little. I have tried several things.. freeze dried blood warms (what they were fed at the breeder), frozen blood worms.. and today some hikari discus pellets(this is what he actually pecked at.)
My question is from what I have been reading I wanted to treat him with salt first because it was possible he might die if I tried dosing with medication right away.
What's next? Since he is not eating but seems healthier on the outside I would imagine internal parasites. Should I dose the tank with some Epsom salts first to try to clean him out so he will eat? or should I dose with something to kill the internals? or both at the same time? It has been a rocky road and there is some light at the end of the tunnel I don't want to screw up now. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Temp: 86F
WC: 50% daily RO
PH: 6.7