waterchanger
Thu Sep 13, 2007, 06:07 PM
Hello to everyone:
I am new to this forum but have already learned a lot, i just wish I had joined earlier! My problem is the following: I have a heavily planted tank with 6 juvenile discus, two of which were added recently and I suspect them to be the culprits. Prior to adition of these fish 16 days ago, I had two spawns in the tank and all fish were fine.
Within 48 hours after addition of the 2 new discus, one of my blue diamonds showed a tiny white spot on the lateral line. Gone in the evening and fish eats and acts normal. However, next day this discus is almost black and cowers in the corner of the aquarium refusing to eat (at this point I was concerned about discus plague). I performed a 40% water change, replaced partially with RO to get the pH down and started treating with Metro. Wirthin the first 12 hours two more fish stopped eating and developed signs of disease. I continued the treatment (30% water change and addition of fresh metro) for a total of 4 days. Att this time, all but one of the fish have completely recovered, are back to normal activity level, color and eat well. The only problem is the blue diamond which was the first patient. this fish started to develop slime and shedded some of the skin. Right now his color is back to normal and actually took a little bit of food, but still hiding and reduced activity.
I have discontinued treatment for 36 hours by now and here is my question: the LFS suggests to repeat the treatment for a total of 3 times every other day, to stop and repeat after a week to eradicate the parasites. What are your thoughts, how would you continue? I am also concerned that this is not due to just one organism but that my fish might harbor some worms as left overs from fish that passed on a while ago.
I am new to this forum but have already learned a lot, i just wish I had joined earlier! My problem is the following: I have a heavily planted tank with 6 juvenile discus, two of which were added recently and I suspect them to be the culprits. Prior to adition of these fish 16 days ago, I had two spawns in the tank and all fish were fine.
Within 48 hours after addition of the 2 new discus, one of my blue diamonds showed a tiny white spot on the lateral line. Gone in the evening and fish eats and acts normal. However, next day this discus is almost black and cowers in the corner of the aquarium refusing to eat (at this point I was concerned about discus plague). I performed a 40% water change, replaced partially with RO to get the pH down and started treating with Metro. Wirthin the first 12 hours two more fish stopped eating and developed signs of disease. I continued the treatment (30% water change and addition of fresh metro) for a total of 4 days. Att this time, all but one of the fish have completely recovered, are back to normal activity level, color and eat well. The only problem is the blue diamond which was the first patient. this fish started to develop slime and shedded some of the skin. Right now his color is back to normal and actually took a little bit of food, but still hiding and reduced activity.
I have discontinued treatment for 36 hours by now and here is my question: the LFS suggests to repeat the treatment for a total of 3 times every other day, to stop and repeat after a week to eradicate the parasites. What are your thoughts, how would you continue? I am also concerned that this is not due to just one organism but that my fish might harbor some worms as left overs from fish that passed on a while ago.