manny2004
01-26-2012, 08:53 PM
DISEASE QUESTIONNAIRE
Problem
1. Please explain the problems with your fish/when and how they started
--Started about three weeks ago, when my blue diamond lost appetite. Which is very unusual as this Discus is normally the bully of the group and always making sure it eats before the rest. I had been feeding them all frozen blood-warms, tetra bits, and beef heart.
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)
--The discus is very dark, seems to have lost slime coat and sometimes is seen on top of the tank tail standing with white segmented poop.
3. What medications/ treatments that you have already tried and results. Include dosages and duration of treatment.
--Used parasite clear tabs at the recommended dosage of 1tab for every 10US gallons, i have a 55 gallon with total 5 Discus in it, so i dosed the entire tank. Every other day completed 50% water change and redosed for full 2 weeks. During which time saw no change.
--The local dealer who i had purchased the Discus from recommended Tinidazole Tablets 500MG after seeing the above didnt work and provided me with the dose. The dosage was to complete 50 percent water change and dose with three tablets, wait three days and complete another 50% water change and redose. this was to be done only twice. No change yet, discus seems exactly the same, the others in the tank are all normal and eating like pigs.
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and age, number and size of fish
--55 US GAL which has been established for three years with 5 4.5" to 5" Discus, fully planted with compressed co2 running on timer with lights.
5. Water change regime/ how long has tank been running/ bare bottom or gravel/ do you age your water?
--Water change when no treatment is being done in the tank is 90% twice a week. Substrate is eco-complete and water change is straight from the TAP with the addition of PRIME.
6 Parameters and water source;
- temp __30 Degrees
- ph ___7.0
- ammonia reading ____0-0.25
- nitrite reading ____0
- nitrate reading ____0
- well water ____N/A
- municipal water ____N/A
7. Any new fish/plants added recently
No recent addition to the tank.
Problem
1. Please explain the problems with your fish/when and how they started
--Started about three weeks ago, when my blue diamond lost appetite. Which is very unusual as this Discus is normally the bully of the group and always making sure it eats before the rest. I had been feeding them all frozen blood-warms, tetra bits, and beef heart.
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)
--The discus is very dark, seems to have lost slime coat and sometimes is seen on top of the tank tail standing with white segmented poop.
3. What medications/ treatments that you have already tried and results. Include dosages and duration of treatment.
--Used parasite clear tabs at the recommended dosage of 1tab for every 10US gallons, i have a 55 gallon with total 5 Discus in it, so i dosed the entire tank. Every other day completed 50% water change and redosed for full 2 weeks. During which time saw no change.
--The local dealer who i had purchased the Discus from recommended Tinidazole Tablets 500MG after seeing the above didnt work and provided me with the dose. The dosage was to complete 50 percent water change and dose with three tablets, wait three days and complete another 50% water change and redose. this was to be done only twice. No change yet, discus seems exactly the same, the others in the tank are all normal and eating like pigs.
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and age, number and size of fish
--55 US GAL which has been established for three years with 5 4.5" to 5" Discus, fully planted with compressed co2 running on timer with lights.
5. Water change regime/ how long has tank been running/ bare bottom or gravel/ do you age your water?
--Water change when no treatment is being done in the tank is 90% twice a week. Substrate is eco-complete and water change is straight from the TAP with the addition of PRIME.
6 Parameters and water source;
- temp __30 Degrees
- ph ___7.0
- ammonia reading ____0-0.25
- nitrite reading ____0
- nitrate reading ____0
- well water ____N/A
- municipal water ____N/A
7. Any new fish/plants added recently
No recent addition to the tank.