2nd endler resting at the top

[ADelphi]

the other three look more full bellied and seem healthy, the little fella is totally concave and very thin, i'm sure he looked fine yesterday, its like its over night.

need suggestions whats best to do with him?

link to the other thread i made ----> http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=105572

 

[WILDER]

Need to get him out of the tank quicklyas he has internal parasites, guppys are very prone to them

 

[WILDER]

Best to destroy him I no it's sounds awful but he is really ill with them, and when there infested to that point of being in that state, there is nothing to be done, you will need to strip the tank down, to get rid of them, destroy ever fish that has them, sorry this is sounding awful but i've had them, and there is no cure in the uk, and to be honest there very hard to cure, only thing that works is pig worming tablets but it geting your hands on the products.

Where did you get the endlers as lfs who buy them wild they tend to feed on cylops which cause internal parasites,

 

[WILDER]

http/www.pbsco.com/conwayfish/bbs/messages/4966.html

 

[ADelphi]

I have taken him out, he is in a freezer bag with the top open in a quite dark corner of the tank, that is the best i can do for him for now. I'm sure he is going to die as he wasn't interested in the live daphnia this morning.

I haven't seen the red thread like camallanus worms in any of the fish.

http/groups.msn.com/AquariumTropicalFish...elete=0&CDir=-2

http/inkmkr.com/Fish/CamallanusTreatment/

 

[WILDER]

Long stringy white poo, concave belly and being skinny point to internal parasites, red inflamed anus and enlarged anus, worm prutruding from the anus, wasting away can also be fish tb.

 

[ADelphi]

My second endler died tonight i wonder how many more will die. It could be fish tb that is very common ---> http/www.4qd.org/Aqua/disease/tb.html#danger

It seemed to happen over night he looked fine the day before. Just because they look healthy one day doesn't mean they wont die the next day with what ever they have.

Do i send them away to microbiology, or invest in a quarantine tank or do both.

 

[WILDER]

Yes a hospital tank stroke quarantine tank is always good to have, can't understand how a fish can go so thin in aday, it takes a while for a fish to go this way.

 

[ADelphi]

I think they were just thin to start with, i've never kept endlers before. I knew they were tiny fish but couldn't tell how thin they were, their size is 3/4 of an inch from nose to tail fin, so very dinky. The three males remaining two of those are starting to get deeper in the girth area, one of them still looks thin but not tucked up.

I'll of had them a week this tuesday.

This how they should look like ----> http/www.petfish.net/endlers.htm

It does seem endlers can be afflicted by some sort of mystery disease, this girl lost all 1200 endlers ---> http/www.geocities.com/endlers_livebearer/

 

[afireinside]

1200! wow, i'd be crying my head off.