I'm seeing spots...

[lachrimae]

Hello all,

I'm setting up my tank for Cichlids and 2 (out of 17) of my feeder fish have gotten large white areas on their scales and one has died (others have died, just not like this).

Here's a pick of the one that's still living, although it's acting like it will soon be riding the roller coaster of the porcelain gods as well:

The dorsal fin on the first fish became very mushy looking and, just before dying, was just hanging on by a thread. The 2nd fish looks better but has had these white spots for nearly a week now. Any thoughts on what this could be? I want to get it figured out before putting Cichlids in...

Thanks!

Mark

 

[red-devil0602]

looks like some sort of fungus

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Its colunmaris on a bad scale, do not feed any fish that look posibly affected by this desease as your cichilds will get it! What temp is the tank set at and what are your recent ammonia, nitrate and nitrite stats?

 

[WILDER]

http/www.flippersandfins.net/flexibacter.htm

 

[daudy_dojo]

may want to isolate him and treat the main feeder tank for columnaris!

 

[GSD]

iscolate it,and all affected others but i think its very hard to treat and preads easily