I don't have photos, but my dwarf gourami, my favorite fish, just went belly up yesterday. He had had something wrong with his mouth--he looked as if he were wearing white lipstick. When he opened his mouth to eat a little, the entire entior of his mouth looked white. It wasn't fuzzy or cottony looking, just an opaque whiteness, as if his mouth were full of white caulking. I don't know what to do; never saw this before. I treated the water with Jungle "Fungus Guard" but it is old and I don't know how good it is. I lost a Columbian tetra today, though it looked healthy until I found it dead. I looked in its mouth and it wasn't white at all. A neon turned up dead, half eaten. Another Columbian may be starting with the white mouth thing; it is nervous and hiding and one corner of its mouth looks white in one corner.
All the paremeters of the tank are normal--zero nitrites, nitrates 10 PPM, pH at 7, ammonia zero. We do have soft water, but that never bothered them before. Also, it is a 30 gallon tank with 13 fish in it (it was 15). I do a one quarter water change every 10 days or so.
Please help, before I lose any more! Thanks!
All the paremeters of the tank are normal--zero nitrites, nitrates 10 PPM, pH at 7, ammonia zero. We do have soft water, but that never bothered them before. Also, it is a 30 gallon tank with 13 fish in it (it was 15). I do a one quarter water change every 10 days or so.
Please help, before I lose any more! Thanks!
