Parasites?

[sawickib]

My elephant nose fish itches or scratches himself against the decor a lot and now has white areas near his belly now, but no scales as he is a scaleless fish, not sure what is going on, and there is no tiny white spots on him so I dont think its ich, maybe parasites? None of my other fish seem to do this but I think i have seen my tire track eel scratching to. Also my BGK might have fin rot on one of his fins, not so sure, the fin is smaller now and has a whiteish thing coming out of the top of it. All my bichirs seem ok in the tank, as well as my gold stripe panaque pleco. Ill try to get pics later tonight. Also cant use meds that i know of due to my BGK and ELE

 

[BerryAttack]

you can use pimaflex and metaflex, they are fine with fish like that. used it on my tank when i had my black ghost knife. usually they only get sick when they don't get enough food.
if they are scratching and have salt looking spots on the body that is ick, i would start treating. because you have scaleless fish you can't do salt just the thing with ick i wouldn't up the temp.. it progresses the illness and usually will kill them faster then you are able to treat. just treat heavily in a hospital tank if you can.. 
 
also your RTS in the 10 gallon is too small, they become very territorial when older.. usually need around 75+ gallon.. just so you know
and i believe elephant nose get aggressive as well.. but not 100% sure.

 

[sawickib]

Did much research on my ele, having 6 in one tank with more than enough hiding spots for all of them. Ill look into the primaflex and metaflex thank you right now all these fish are in the 75 gallon.

 

[sawickib]

you can use pimaflex and metaflex, they are fine with fish like that. used it on my tank when i had my black ghost knife. usually they only get sick when they don't get enough food.
if they are scratching and have salt looking spots on the body that is ick, i would start treating. because you have scaleless fish you can't do salt just the thing with ick i wouldn't up the temp.. it progresses the illness and usually will kill them faster then you are able to treat. just treat heavily in a hospital tank if you can.. 
 
also your RTS in the 10 gallon is too small, they become very territorial when older.. usually need around 75+ gallon.. just so you know
and i believe elephant nose get aggressive as well.. but not 100% sure.

Randomaly found this thread again lol i dont know why i replied that, but yeah everyones ok now, i dont know why my ele was scratching in the 75gal but in the 55gal hes doing fine, no scratching. No one had any tiny white spots in there so that wasnt the issue, but two of my tire track eels like rub their sides of the ground now and idk what their doing, they have nothing on their skin that i can see.

 

[sawickib]

And when my RTS will be moving to the 75 soon with my ele's

 

[craig82]

Hi everybody,need some help please had my tank 4 3 yrs now,with no problems but in the last week I've lost 4 fish 2 geophagus surnamensis a silver arowana n a Oscar all my fish r bouncing off sand n objects no sign of white spot or disease but there is a Web like substance floating around n on my poly sengali please

 

[sawickib]

Maybe you should make your own thread but how big is your tank and what your water parameters, and did you put anything new in your tank or clean your filters in tap water?

 

[BerryAttack]

Hi everybody,need some help please had my tank 4 3 yrs now,with no problems but in the last week I've lost 4 fish 2 geophagus surnamensis a silver arowana n a Oscar all my fish r bouncing off sand n objects no sign of white spot or disease but there is a Web like substance floating around n on my poly sengali please

make sure that the water quality is good (water stats) do large water change with treated water... 
when you lost the fish did you look at the overall health of what the body looked like before and after the death? skinny poo etc etc look at internal parasites to external.. without anymore information about that there ins't much help we can give you