My Bala Looks Rough

[ox5477]

I turn the light on in the tank every morning before I go to work and I didn't notice anything wrong with my fish as I usually sit and watch them for 2 or 3 minutes every morning. When I got home and proceeded to feed them this evening I saw one of my new baby bala's looked quite bad. On all his fins, he now has red coloring. I think it may be blood.....

Here are a few pics so you can understand:

Sorry the pictures are quite blurry but you can still see the red fins..... I think maybe one of the big bala's may of got spooked and ran into him but I don't know how this could effect all of his fins. Is this some disease I've never seen?

If you have info I would like know whats going on. Thanks in advance!

 

[WILDER]

Size of tank in gallons or litres.
How many fish and which type.
Water stats in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate, and ph.
Septicemia and onc eit has progressed hard to cure.

 

[ox5477]

Size of tank in gallons or litres.
How many fish and which type.
Water stats in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate, and ph.
Septicemia and onc eit has progressed hard to cure.

everything is fine, trust me. does it look like any disease you've seen before

SOrry didn't see the septicemia part. What is that exactly?

 

[WILDER]

Look under septicemia.

Septicemia
Symptoms: Redness on body, blood streaks on skin and fins, inflamed blood vessels, hemorrhaging around the eyes, sluggishness and loss of appetite. Septicemia usually occurs along side other diseases, and can result from poor water conditions. There is a high risk of
Dropsy occurring as result of septicemia.



http/www.goldfishinfo.com/ailment1.htm

 

[ox5477]

Look under septicemia.

Septicemia
Symptoms: Redness on body, blood streaks on skin and fins, inflamed blood vessels, hemorrhaging around the eyes, sluggishness and loss of appetite. Septicemia usually occurs along side other diseases, and can result from poor water conditions. There is a high risk of
Dropsy occurring as result of septicemia.



http/www.goldfishinfo.com/ailment1.htm

is it contageous? i mean should I move the bala into a quarentine then treat with this long name medicine or can I treat the whole tank?

Nevermind... i got the info i need

 

[WILDER]

I would issolate him as the bacteria from the fish can enter the tank.

Treatment: Treat with Maracyn-Two medication. Isolate the fish. Then call a pet store or ask your vet for information on treatment. It is essential to treat septicemia immediately, or else it is fatal......

 

[ox5477]

I would issolate him as the bacteria from the fish can enter the tank.

Treatment: Treat with Maracyn-Two medication. Isolate the fish. Then call a pet store or ask your vet for information on treatment. It is essential to treat septicemia immediately, or else it is fatal......

yes, i just seperated and already called a fish store to get the med

 

[WILDER]

Ok, good luck hope you caught it in time bless him.
Check your tank stats to be on the safe side.

 

[ox5477]

Ok, good luck hope you caught it in time bless him.
Check your tank stats to be on the safe side.

I did, all good

NH3 = 0
NO2 = 0
NO3 = 20
pH = 7.3

 

[WILDER]

Yes they are good.
Could of get septicemia through having a wound then.

 

[ox5477]

Yes they are good.
Could of get septicemia through having a wound then.

def possiblity. the floor bows when anybody walks near the tank so those little vibrations send my bala's into a panic and either one of the bigger ones could of rammed it or maybe it ran into a rock in the tank.

I hope this medicine works and that I caught it in time!

 

[WILDER]

Ok, would look into the floor as it could be a accident waiting to happen.
Has it bowed because of water.

 

[Tommy Gunnz]

Hearing about the floor bowing, I assume that your tank is either completely huge, or you live in a old or improperly built house. In either case, you absolutely need a big big tank for balas since they get big and need to be in groups of three or more. I think a bowing floor is going to be your worst nightmare sooner or later. Big big tanks should be places near stairs or above walls in the basement in order to help ensure that they are supported. Even if your floor can hold the weight, like your has, but moves when you walk by, the tank could twist a bit and break. The glass is designed to be able to support the weight of water and everything you put in them reasonably, but they are not at all strong when the weight changes rapidly or the glass is stressed by twisting and the like. I broke a tank once while moving it (almost empty of all water and just half the substrate) when it twisted ever so slightly. It was the side that went first and the rest was quick to follow.

 

[blackbat]

my shark look just like that both died
the horrid woman at the petshop dropped on of the pair into the tank as she was bagging so i thought i might have been a bruise but it was columnaris
I miss my babysharks