my silver dollar seems fine and has a balanced diet with alot of algae wafers as it doesnt touch plants. it has some white coloring on the bottom of his bottom fin and i was wonting if its like a vitamin difficienc or nothing 2 worry about

Can you possibly post a picture? Many characins seem to get white tips on the end of thier fins when they are in good condition. My red eye tetras have white tips on thier fins, similar to silver tip tetras.

BTW your luck to have a silver dollar that doesn't eat plants. I was planning on getting 3 of them soon, but my tank is going to be well planted, and I've heard some silver dollars even like to rip apart plastic plants . S I don't think I'll risk it.

i am very lucky. i feed him the algae wafers and him and my severum always squabble over them

and my cameras broken and i dont get my phone til 2marro but i'll take pics when i get it

Silver dollars are easily stressed. Mine quite often get white on their fins/body/eyes, but it is not like a fungal infection.

Do you have a bunch of them together?

I think you will find that you dollar has been bumped or bashed. it may have panicked and collided with some deccor or it may have been, involved in a bust up in the tank. however it there is a fair bit of white fluff, my guess would be that it is the latter.

i would advise to treat your tank with some sort of anti bacterial, as a precaution. but apart from that, there is not much you can do but wait. though perhaps keeping an eye on the tank to try and spot the culprit!

they heal slow, but well. in a clean environment. first the fluff will drop off, leaving the wound visible, over a few weeks the wound will slowly heal. leaving not much more than a slight mark.

All the best with this, and let us know how you go!

i dont think its bacterial or anything. i have 2 and it just looks like the tip of there bottom fin has turned white. its not fluffy or attached or anything and its not a wound. all my other fish are fine. i dont think there stressed because theyre not cowwering in a corner or anything and swim 2 the front when i go near the tank. theyre acting fine and eating like normal

ik that silver dollars like 2 b in schools but schooling is a defensive thing they do when they feel threatened but mine are comfortable and half the time there not near each other

and o yea.. i dont think they bumped there bottum fin and recieved wounds

This post has been edited by daemon: May 10 2007, 02:22 AM

Are you absolutely positive they are silver dollars? They sound a lot more like discus tetra's, which can apparently develop a white area to the bottom of the anal fin as they mature;

http://www.fishforums.net/Discus-Tetra-t113045.html

The fact that your silver dollars dont eat plants and that they have developed unusual colouring and that discus tetra's can look quite similar to silver dollars, my bet is that you don't actually have silver dollars but instead have some sort of similar looking characin like a discus tetra (pics of discus tetra's and info on them are in the above link, which you should see).

naw.. i got silver dollars.. they dont eat the plants in my tanks but they eat lettuce.. the only thing i have in there is java fern so yea..

Can you get any pics of the silver dollars? That would help a great deal in ID'ing what the white colouring on them is, as until you do get pics all we can offer you for the moment is mostly guess work as to what is going on with them.

heres an older pic.. when i had 4. not a good pic but u can see there silver dolars

Do the fins with the white colour on them apear rough at the edges at all? Or does the white colouring look like a slimey film on the surface of the fishes fins or skin at all?

humm an odd shape for a silver dollar, but they do seem to have the red anal fin. lol they look like a cross between, dollars and discus tetras.

but if whatever they are if the fin is turning white, it is due to some form of damage. i'm sorry but that is a fact!

sorry but i cant make out the cichlid in the foreground! what is it?

Yeah i agree with boboboy, if these truely are silver dollars then any white colouring to the fins or body is a desease/parasite thing. Can you get any pics of the affected areas on the fishes fins?

um... it just looks like the fins are colored white at the end and not anything on it. i cant take picture because i dont have a camera but i'll try 2 get my aunt 2 let me use hers. they didnt have the white when i got them tho.


the cichlid in the forground is my beautiful severum.. and in the back is a firemouth