Is it the bacteria infections that's causing my fish to not have babies?
Yep, any type of infection, be it internal or external will reduce the chance of the fish breeding. Likewise intestinal worms, gill flukes or any other parasite will also reduce the chance of the fish breeding. Internal problems are a common cause of poor fish growth and limited breeding success. If a fish is full of worms or diseases then it is going to use all its energy to fight off the infection. This means little nutrition is going to be used for making eggs or sperm. Once the fish are healthy and free of disease organisms, they usually breed readily.
This problem started more than 2 weeks ago so if it was an internal bacterial infection it should have killed most of the fish by now.
The pictures are working sometimes but I saw enough when they were
It doesn’t look like they have whitespot, but they do appear to have flared gills and are quite skinny. This would probably be gill flukes & intestinal worms. The worms would cause the clear stringy poo. Both gill flukes and intestinal worms will suck the blood out of the fish and cause it to become skinny and pale.
The two Jungle products in the link should be fine to use but I’m not sure the anti-parasite medication will treat gill flukes or threadworms. It contains Levamisole, which will treat some species of threadworm but not all of them. It also contains Praziquantel, which will treat tapeworm, and gill flukes if the Praziquantel is in the water. The final ingredient is Metronidazole, which normally treats internal bacteria and protozoan infections. The medication should certainly help clear up some of the internal problems.
Praziquantel is used to treat dogs & cats for tapeworm and can be used to treat tapeworm and gill flukes in fish if you add it to the water. You use 100mg of Praziquantel per 20litres of water. Do a 50% water change 2 days later. Repeat the treatment a week later.
Flubendazole is available in the US. It treats virtually all intestinal worms and a number of external parasites. You might be able to start a thread asking if anyone in the US can send you some via express post. Possibly send mikev a PM and see if he knows where you can get some.
Clamped fins and rubbing on objects can be caused by external protozoan like costia, chilodonella & trichodina. Clamped fins can also be caused by bacterial & fungal infections, or by poor water quality and dirty gravel. Often the gunk in the gravel or filter will encourage disease organisms to build up in number, and at the same time the gunk and poor water quality can weaken the fish’s immune system. Then one day the fish get sick.
Do you clean the gravel when you do a water change?
How often do you clean the filter?
Yep, any type of infection, be it internal or external will reduce the chance of the fish breeding. Likewise intestinal worms, gill flukes or any other parasite will also reduce the chance of the fish breeding. Internal problems are a common cause of poor fish growth and limited breeding success. If a fish is full of worms or diseases then it is going to use all its energy to fight off the infection. This means little nutrition is going to be used for making eggs or sperm. Once the fish are healthy and free of disease organisms, they usually breed readily.
This problem started more than 2 weeks ago so if it was an internal bacterial infection it should have killed most of the fish by now.
The pictures are working sometimes but I saw enough when they were
It doesn’t look like they have whitespot, but they do appear to have flared gills and are quite skinny. This would probably be gill flukes & intestinal worms. The worms would cause the clear stringy poo. Both gill flukes and intestinal worms will suck the blood out of the fish and cause it to become skinny and pale. The two Jungle products in the link should be fine to use but I’m not sure the anti-parasite medication will treat gill flukes or threadworms. It contains Levamisole, which will treat some species of threadworm but not all of them. It also contains Praziquantel, which will treat tapeworm, and gill flukes if the Praziquantel is in the water. The final ingredient is Metronidazole, which normally treats internal bacteria and protozoan infections. The medication should certainly help clear up some of the internal problems.
Praziquantel is used to treat dogs & cats for tapeworm and can be used to treat tapeworm and gill flukes in fish if you add it to the water. You use 100mg of Praziquantel per 20litres of water. Do a 50% water change 2 days later. Repeat the treatment a week later.
Flubendazole is available in the US. It treats virtually all intestinal worms and a number of external parasites. You might be able to start a thread asking if anyone in the US can send you some via express post. Possibly send mikev a PM and see if he knows where you can get some.
Clamped fins and rubbing on objects can be caused by external protozoan like costia, chilodonella & trichodina. Clamped fins can also be caused by bacterial & fungal infections, or by poor water quality and dirty gravel. Often the gunk in the gravel or filter will encourage disease organisms to build up in number, and at the same time the gunk and poor water quality can weaken the fish’s immune system. Then one day the fish get sick.
Do you clean the gravel when you do a water change?
How often do you clean the filter?
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