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Rheophilic....
Browsing the net looking to confirm the species of my gourami....
Couldn't do it, but i found this , may be of some help to struggling gourami owners, then again it may not?
Peas....
Edit: and this
also
Theres a mention of a possible cure on another similar site that it may be cheeky to TFF to mention, so heres a copy of the original posting:
Wanted to report a cure of this using Metronidazole/Praziquantel medicated food and erythromycin in the water.
One of two dwarf gouramis in a US 10 gal tank began showing symptoms. The tank is well planted, pH 7.0, 4*dKH, 8*dGH, 10mg/L nitrate and no detectable ammonia or nitrite (AP liquid test kits).
The symptoms displayed (only the one male gourami had symptoms) were:
First, he hung out at the top of the tank, gulping air, and then seemingly almost floating himself out of the tank with each gulp of air. That lasted a day. The next day he began laying on the bottom on his side, at about a 20 degree angle from horizontal. This continued for a week during which I began a four week treatment with Jungle's anti-parasite food (Metronidazole/Praziquantel) consisting of three days feeding medicated food, then four days of regular food per week. Halfway through the treatment, the dwarf gourami did not appear to be getting any better and had developed open sores on his side. After much frantic reading, I came to the conclusion he was experiencing "dwarf gourami disease" a.k.a. "epizootic ulcerative syndrome", and expected to lose him very quickly. I performed seven days of dosing 200mg erythromycin/day into the tank, and by day six he was eating and defecating again. Completed the anti-parasite course, and he is looking very well -- no more lying on his side, very active and paying a lot of attention to the female dwarf gourami. Through all of this, the female never displayed a single symptom that anything was wrong.
Now, six months later, he is still doing well, only the slightest discoloration on his side where the sores were that I can only see in certain light.
The Metronidazole/Praziquantel food plus erythromycin appears to be effective on this problem. He went from nearly dead to a continued healthy life
Couldn't do it, but i found this , may be of some help to struggling gourami owners, then again it may not?
Peas....
Edit: and this
also
Theres a mention of a possible cure on another similar site that it may be cheeky to TFF to mention, so heres a copy of the original posting:
Wanted to report a cure of this using Metronidazole/Praziquantel medicated food and erythromycin in the water.
One of two dwarf gouramis in a US 10 gal tank began showing symptoms. The tank is well planted, pH 7.0, 4*dKH, 8*dGH, 10mg/L nitrate and no detectable ammonia or nitrite (AP liquid test kits).
The symptoms displayed (only the one male gourami had symptoms) were:
First, he hung out at the top of the tank, gulping air, and then seemingly almost floating himself out of the tank with each gulp of air. That lasted a day. The next day he began laying on the bottom on his side, at about a 20 degree angle from horizontal. This continued for a week during which I began a four week treatment with Jungle's anti-parasite food (Metronidazole/Praziquantel) consisting of three days feeding medicated food, then four days of regular food per week. Halfway through the treatment, the dwarf gourami did not appear to be getting any better and had developed open sores on his side. After much frantic reading, I came to the conclusion he was experiencing "dwarf gourami disease" a.k.a. "epizootic ulcerative syndrome", and expected to lose him very quickly. I performed seven days of dosing 200mg erythromycin/day into the tank, and by day six he was eating and defecating again. Completed the anti-parasite course, and he is looking very well -- no more lying on his side, very active and paying a lot of attention to the female dwarf gourami. Through all of this, the female never displayed a single symptom that anything was wrong.
Now, six months later, he is still doing well, only the slightest discoloration on his side where the sores were that I can only see in certain light.
The Metronidazole/Praziquantel food plus erythromycin appears to be effective on this problem. He went from nearly dead to a continued healthy life
