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Jozlyn
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I have had a call from a freind earlier this evening about her fish being sick, so I went and had a look.
And before you ask, no I did not take any test kits with me and she doesn't have any, so I couldn't test the water! But she does overfeed, so I've fixed that!
She's been loosing a fish on a daily basis for a few days now and has another one on the way out, hence her call to me!
Symptoms - what she described - sounded a bit like cotton mouth, said the fish had a furry white growth around the mouth also, white blotches and severe fraying on the tail, finaly the fish would bloat hand around the filter or heater (you know, hiding in the corner syndrome) and be dead in the morning! She's lost a few fish but the only ones she knew the name for were the tiger barbs, she's lost both of them in the last few days.
Symptoms - what I saw tonight - white blotches (looks fungal) on dorsal and tail, frayed tail, slightly bloated - hiding
I've dosed the tank with Multi cure (melachite green I think) and left the bottle so that she can keep dosing every 3 days, only at half strength as she has neon tetras (all 6 with neon tetra disease!) and a rummy nose tetra, she also has 3 chinease algae eaters, one of whom is quite big, so I've advised her to get rid of them quick smart although the bigger one will pick off the 2 little one's given enough time.
Other inmates are two silver dollars, 1 platy, 2 of the black and grey striped fish (that I can't remember what they're called see other post), 1 of them is sick at the moment.
Could it be a combination of some sort of fungal disease and attach by the CAE?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
And before you ask, no I did not take any test kits with me and she doesn't have any, so I couldn't test the water! But she does overfeed, so I've fixed that!
She's been loosing a fish on a daily basis for a few days now and has another one on the way out, hence her call to me!
Symptoms - what she described - sounded a bit like cotton mouth, said the fish had a furry white growth around the mouth also, white blotches and severe fraying on the tail, finaly the fish would bloat hand around the filter or heater (you know, hiding in the corner syndrome) and be dead in the morning! She's lost a few fish but the only ones she knew the name for were the tiger barbs, she's lost both of them in the last few days.
Symptoms - what I saw tonight - white blotches (looks fungal) on dorsal and tail, frayed tail, slightly bloated - hiding
I've dosed the tank with Multi cure (melachite green I think) and left the bottle so that she can keep dosing every 3 days, only at half strength as she has neon tetras (all 6 with neon tetra disease!) and a rummy nose tetra, she also has 3 chinease algae eaters, one of whom is quite big, so I've advised her to get rid of them quick smart although the bigger one will pick off the 2 little one's given enough time.
Other inmates are two silver dollars, 1 platy, 2 of the black and grey striped fish (that I can't remember what they're called see other post), 1 of them is sick at the moment.
Could it be a combination of some sort of fungal disease and attach by the CAE?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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We live in the middle of nowhere! LFS doesn't do tests and most of the time only stocks PH kits!!!
