Fungal Gills

[rosebud]

I have three tanks at home, a 48x19x26 community tank with 9 discus, 2 gouramis, an angel fish that thinks its a discus, 2 silver sharks a rainbow shark and a clown loach all of whom get along famously, there are also 2 smaller tanks both with discus pairs, one that spawns regularly the other just seem content together.

my problems is with the female of one of the pairs. Just recently she has been what seemed incredibly poorly, all symptoms pointed to HITH but after I'd treated them to a water softener pillow - all parameters in all tanks are brilliant apart from a water hardness issue - I'm looking into getting an RO filter that Ican afford. Anyway, whatever it was was successfully treated with 'Hexamita' and within days the cheeky pair were spawning again and looking fantastic. I've just woken up having been on night shifts and the little lady has what seems to be gill fluke - her right gill is stuck to her side looks fluffy and the left one is working overtime, I suppose in an effort to compensate

Any ideas anyone PLEASE cos I don't want to treat medicinally without the need. She doesn't appear to be sufferring otherwise, not gasping as such and continues to feed from the bottom or from my hand and fan the eggs - that won't hatch as the water's too hard

Cheers
rosebud

 

[minxfishy]

Hi, can you give us your water stats please, ammonia, nitrIte, nitrAte and ph?

What size is the tank that the discus with the problem is in and how many other fish in the tank?

 

[WILDER]

Columnaris can affect the gills.
Fungus can grow on dead tissue.

Signs of skin and gills flukes are.
Inflamed red gills, or pale gills with excess slime.
Opaque body with excess slime.
Laboured breathing, or gasping at the surface of the tank.
Flicking and rubbing against ojects in the tank.
Erratic swimming, or darting.
Sores on the body of the fish.
Swimming oddly like in a jerky movement.
Weighloss sometimes.
Spitting food out.

Can you post your water stats please like minxfishy has asked for.

 

[rosebud]

Hi, can you give us your water stats please, ammonia, nitrIte, nitrAte and ph?

What size is the tank that the discus with the problem is in and how many other fish in the tank?

hi. thanks for getting back to me,

The tank is 36x16x26 pH 6.5 ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate trace just the 2 adult discus nothing else in there, minimal pebble bottom, breeding cone, bogwood and airstone

 

[WILDER]

When gills stick together it dosn't always mean parasite it can be bacterial aswell.
Look under columnaris.
http/www.fish-disease.net/diseases.htm