Why have my blue turks turned brown

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My Blue turks have all turned brown,We have had the fish vet out(very expensive) and after 3 lots of medications Dimetridazole(DMZ)-Piperazine they have not changed and the vet thought this was from intestinal worms,and now after the loss of 2 of my discus I need help.All of the melons and reds have not changed colour only the blues.They have been brown for almost 6 months now.

[ILLUSN]

PHOTO? SEEMS VERY STRANGE

[bobgar]

Hi there,

My Discus also went brown as he/she was not eating. I was really worried, but I went over to Sydney Discus World and Nick gave me an effective worming solution (for free) which I added to the water.

The Discus gradually turned back to their natural colour within just a few days and started eating again.

Where do you live? Their shop is at Homebush West in Sydney.

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hi
The discus are eating and we have had a fish vet out and he treated them for flat worms after doing a scraping and looking under a micro scope,then a couple of weeks after that treatment nothing had changed so then we had to do a 10 day course with 24 hour water changes for intestinal worms which killed two of the discus.So not to happy and no where closer to the problem.We live in Perth.

[Hollowman]

How is your water ????

[brad_v]

Perth water - hard and alkaline out of the tap.