Tank size 25 planted with Driftwood play sand substrate, DIY CO2 injection
Eclipse 2 hood, but media is bonded filter, ceramic media and activated carbon, no bio wheel. Also run a sponge filter.
Params 0-0-5 78*F ph is 7.4 or 7.6 (I can't differentiate the color on the drop test card)
Occupants
2 Zebra danio (1 is a red Glo Fish) 2 Dwarf Gourami, M-F, 3 Adult Platy (at least 1 free swimming fry) 3 Neon Tetras 2 Kuhlis1 upside down catfish and 1 oto
Tank also has MTS, Red Ramshorns, Pond Snails and RCS
Water Changes 1-2 times a week to keep the tannins in check
Newest occupants are the neons, they are a month old and healthy and show no signs of illness and come from a store with healthy fish.
This all started about 1.5 months ago, before I got the tetra's. My dwarf Female Gourami got attacked by an Angelfish that has since been rehomed. The fight left her with a line of missing scales along her right side that looked like a bite mark, and a smaller nip on her "nose". She had been ok up until 2 weeks ago, where she started showing symptoms of what I thought was ich. I raised the tank temperature into the 80's and added aquarium salt to the main tank. She got a lot worse, rapidly, The skin near her mouth had started to peel, so I moved her immediately to a QT tank, which is now at 75*. She is spending all time at the surface breathing every few seconds, but it almost looks like she has to get a running start to get there.. I though she was trying to get the condensation on the cover. I don't have a camera capable of taking a decent enough picture to get any kind of information from. I can however tell you, she is looking more and more like some kind of zombie fish every day. Her eyes don't look right, are beginning to cloud over and her mouth is peeling away, and the angelfish wound isn't healing.
The QT is a ten gallon, with a heater and a powerhead with attached airline providing aeration.
So based on the worsening symptoms with raising water temp, I'd have to guess bacterial infection. What I can't figure out, is whether her wounds are simply infected and that's what is causing her illness, or if it's something more serious such as Flexibacter columnaris, and her wounds simply providing point of entry and lowered her immune system so she got sick first.
I started treatment with Marclyn-2, but I need to go get more, as my supply was left over from treating the glo-fish for dropsy. So i figured, I'd ask opinions here to see what I should do next. Do I continue her treatment as is, or is there something else I should try. And do I treat the Main Tank. No other fish are showing any symptoms, growths, or other unexplained injury or symptoms, and my large bioload and inverts has be concerned with anything that might affect my Beneficial Bacteria or kill my inverts, and I know a lot of meds will do both. Any recommendations there
Thanks.
Eclipse 2 hood, but media is bonded filter, ceramic media and activated carbon, no bio wheel. Also run a sponge filter.
Params 0-0-5 78*F ph is 7.4 or 7.6 (I can't differentiate the color on the drop test card)
Occupants
2 Zebra danio (1 is a red Glo Fish) 2 Dwarf Gourami, M-F, 3 Adult Platy (at least 1 free swimming fry) 3 Neon Tetras 2 Kuhlis1 upside down catfish and 1 oto
Tank also has MTS, Red Ramshorns, Pond Snails and RCS
Water Changes 1-2 times a week to keep the tannins in check
Newest occupants are the neons, they are a month old and healthy and show no signs of illness and come from a store with healthy fish.
This all started about 1.5 months ago, before I got the tetra's. My dwarf Female Gourami got attacked by an Angelfish that has since been rehomed. The fight left her with a line of missing scales along her right side that looked like a bite mark, and a smaller nip on her "nose". She had been ok up until 2 weeks ago, where she started showing symptoms of what I thought was ich. I raised the tank temperature into the 80's and added aquarium salt to the main tank. She got a lot worse, rapidly, The skin near her mouth had started to peel, so I moved her immediately to a QT tank, which is now at 75*. She is spending all time at the surface breathing every few seconds, but it almost looks like she has to get a running start to get there.. I though she was trying to get the condensation on the cover. I don't have a camera capable of taking a decent enough picture to get any kind of information from. I can however tell you, she is looking more and more like some kind of zombie fish every day. Her eyes don't look right, are beginning to cloud over and her mouth is peeling away, and the angelfish wound isn't healing.
The QT is a ten gallon, with a heater and a powerhead with attached airline providing aeration.
So based on the worsening symptoms with raising water temp, I'd have to guess bacterial infection. What I can't figure out, is whether her wounds are simply infected and that's what is causing her illness, or if it's something more serious such as Flexibacter columnaris, and her wounds simply providing point of entry and lowered her immune system so she got sick first.
I started treatment with Marclyn-2, but I need to go get more, as my supply was left over from treating the glo-fish for dropsy. So i figured, I'd ask opinions here to see what I should do next. Do I continue her treatment as is, or is there something else I should try. And do I treat the Main Tank. No other fish are showing any symptoms, growths, or other unexplained injury or symptoms, and my large bioload and inverts has be concerned with anything that might affect my Beneficial Bacteria or kill my inverts, and I know a lot of meds will do both. Any recommendations there
Thanks.
I had a DG that developed a head lesion and then passed on (but actually from jumping out of the hospital tank).....
