Flesh eating bacteria?

[ryknier]

I had a silver dollar that had a speck of white on it one day, and didnt think anything of it. The next day it had grown from a dot, to the size of one of those flattened souvenir pennies, I moved him to my q tank, and I noticed it was some kind of white growth, like a flesh eating bacteria. It had eaten most of his scales and down into his flesh. I imediately e-mailed my microbiologst professors and they gave me some advice. The next day, I found him dead and the fish bloated to three times his width and his growth had grown under his skin and you can tell where it was "soft" a discoloration more like. I am watching all of my other fish closely, and nothing has come about yet!! Dont know where this is from, since i havent introduced anything as far as fish, my hand and food. Any ideas? I can post a picture of the wound, but rated TVMA!

 

[taimoor86]

that might be ichthyophthirius and check ur tank temp coz usually the cause of this disease is low temp and fish in this condition usually rub their bogy with te things in the tak to get injured. or this can be any type of fungus probably saprolegnia its cause is also low temp or over feeding and other fish in the tank usually attack the fish infected by fungus. so try some search about these disease on internet so u will might get some usefull stuff

 

[ryknier]

My temperature is at 78 if that means anything

 

[mooman]

External bacterial infections can be bad. I once had a fish that had got wounded (i think on a sharp rock) and had a slight white discoloration. It was almost totally healed when the infection spread over most of his body in under 24 hours. Extremely virulent, and hard to treat. He did not pass it to any other fish in the tank though. The suggestion I recieved was to quarantine and treat with antibiotics at the FIRST sign of infection. Apparently the bacteria can remain and spread UNDER the scales after the initial wound has healed. Like a ticking time bomb.

 

[Roan Art]

that might be ichthyophthirius and check ur tank temp coz usually the cause of this disease is low temp and fish in this condition usually rub their bogy with te things in the tak to get injured. or this can be any type of fungus probably saprolegnia its cause is also low temp or over feeding and other fish in the tank usually attack the fish infected by fungus. so try some search about these disease on internet so u will might get some usefull stuff

Ichthyophthirius? Ich? Ah, no way. That's not how the parasite presents and it certainly doesn't spread in that manner at all.

Ich cysts resemble small white dots of salt and are about the same size. The only time they appear bigger than that is when a whole bunch of them settle beside each other.

Roan

 

[Roan Art]

External bacterial infections can be bad. I once had a fish that had got wounded (i think on a sharp rock) and had a slight white discoloration. It was almost totally healed when the infection spread over most of his body in under 24 hours. Extremely virulent, and hard to treat. He did not pass it to any other fish in the tank though. The suggestion I recieved was to quarantine and treat with antibiotics at the FIRST sign of infection. Apparently the bacteria can remain and spread UNDER the scales after the initial wound has healed. Like a ticking time bomb.

Yah, happened to me a few times, too. I've never been able to get a bow to heal once the white discoloration sets in. Don't matter what I treat with. That's all she wrote.

Not a pretty sight.

I lost two female bows to this dang thing when I first started keeping them. They got into a huge row with each other and there were a lot of scales floating around in the tank. QT didn't help at all.

Roan