Boesemani & Columnaris? (False Alarm)
These 9 Boesemani were shipped exactly one week ago (2/27/06) and I received them on 2/28/06.
I thought they were healthy as all are swimming around and eating well and acting [what I assumed to be] healthy.
Upon further research, I've become increasingly concerned about a little white on the very edge of a few of their dorsal fins (that's the fin on top, right?) Their mouths seem to be ok and there's no "saddle" pattern developing.
Does this look like columnaris? Or something else? Fin rot? :help:
Here's the best picture I could get:
Here a link to a website with about 26 more pictures of them (they refused to pose and say CHEEEEEEESE, so I just took as many pics as I could...a few of them turned out ok):
http://wagnertechservice.com/boes/babyboes.htm
EDIT: By the way, NONE of them have white spots on them (like ich). They were feeding when I took the pics, so there's stuff floating in the water....sorry if pics are misleading. It's just the fin edges that I'm worried about.
Dial-up users might not want to bother...there's a bunch of pics all together...might take a while to load.
I'm going to start doing nightly water changes to keep the water quality as high as possible. Do I have to medicate, or will this clear up? All nine survived shipping and are alive after a week...I'd like to keep it that way.
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!!!
These 9 Boesemani were shipped exactly one week ago (2/27/06) and I received them on 2/28/06.
I thought they were healthy as all are swimming around and eating well and acting [what I assumed to be] healthy.
Upon further research, I've become increasingly concerned about a little white on the very edge of a few of their dorsal fins (that's the fin on top, right?) Their mouths seem to be ok and there's no "saddle" pattern developing.
Does this look like columnaris? Or something else? Fin rot? :help:
Here's the best picture I could get:
Here a link to a website with about 26 more pictures of them (they refused to pose and say CHEEEEEEESE, so I just took as many pics as I could...a few of them turned out ok):
http://wagnertechservice.com/boes/babyboes.htm
EDIT: By the way, NONE of them have white spots on them (like ich). They were feeding when I took the pics, so there's stuff floating in the water....sorry if pics are misleading. It's just the fin edges that I'm worried about.
Dial-up users might not want to bother...there's a bunch of pics all together...might take a while to load.
I'm going to start doing nightly water changes to keep the water quality as high as possible. Do I have to medicate, or will this clear up? All nine survived shipping and are alive after a week...I'd like to keep it that way.
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!!!
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