SICK DISCUS

[kamel_007]

hi

please help me with that :

i get 4 discus from one week, then i see some white spot,,

anyway i put them in my 55 gallon tank,

all water parameters are fine PH 7.2

the symptoms :

1.white spot
2.rapid gills
3.speed breathing
4.laying on the bottom
5.dark in colour sometimes
6.gasping
7.swimming under water level



so i use a medication for fungus, ICH, fluks, anchor worm.

i use from 4 days ago,

and adding drops at this period,

i see some improvement but still dark in colour and rapid gills speed breathing..


today is the 4th day i ad last drop,,

and want to change water tomorrow,,

water temp is 28C..

what can i do to save them..

still laying on the bottom too, i put them in a salt bath today gives some refresh..

 

[WILDER]

You need to use a whitespot treatment turn temp up to 30 and cover tank with a blanket, they sound in a very bad way.

 

[WILDER]

http/www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/health/ich.shtml

 

[kamel_007]

You need to use a whitespot treatment turn temp up to 30 and cover tank with a blanket, they sound in a very bad way.

why i have to cover the tank with blanket?

 

[Cheese Specialist]

You need to use a whitespot treatment turn temp up to 30 and cover tank with a blanket, they sound in a very bad way.

why i have to cover the tank with blanket?

It will stop the fish being as stressed as much as anything else.

Ich also has to be treated for 21 days to catch it at all stages of it's life cycle. Your fish had spots, the treatment does not work at this point. Only at the next stage which is where the disease is free swimming.

It's very important to continue treatment after the spots have gone or the ich will come back in a more powerful strain.

Do a waterchange after the first run of meds (what it says on the packet) and then redose. Make sure the tempature is up high, for discus only 90F but if there's other fish 85F or so as this speeds up the ich life cycle.

 

[kamel_007]

thanx man..

but my discus still dark,, and i dont know what should i do?

change water ok...

but why doesnt improvement .........?

 

[Cheese Specialist]

Because you have not treated for long enough. The ich is still there.

 

[Sky042]

You need to use a whitespot treatment turn temp up to 30 and cover tank with a blanket, they sound in a very bad way.

why i have to cover the tank with blanket?

It will stop the fish being as stressed as much as anything else.

Ich also has to be treated for 21 days to catch it at all stages of it's life cycle. Your fish had spots, the treatment does not work at this point. Only at the next stage which is where the disease is free swimming.

It's very important to continue treatment after the spots have gone or the ich will come back in a more powerful strain.

Do a waterchange after the first run of meds (what it says on the packet) and then redose. Make sure the tempature is up high, for discus only 90F but if there's other fish 85F or so as this speeds up the ich life cycle.

Wow 21 days?
I didn't think you needed to treat that long.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

That's the life cycle of the ich, it has 3 stages. Putting up the temp speeds the cycle up but it's hard to say by how much.

 

[Sky042]

That's the life cycle of the ich, it has 3 stages. Putting up the temp speeds the cycle up but it's hard to say by how much.

Been treating now 7 days and my clown loach today all the sudden was covered in ick......

 

[kamel_007]

please help..

my discus keeping dark,,

i add metronidazole and methylene blue,, but at now still ich too and rapid gills , gasping,,

what i have to do>??

 

[annka5]

Can you aerate the water any more? I know discus don't much like a current, but more oxygen in the water would help the stress levels as well as gill rate /gasping.
particularly if you've upped the temparature whilst treatin them.

 

[WILDER]

methylene blue it mean't to put 02 in the water, it's a bad med for your bacteria colony,add an airstone as the med and high temp is reducing the 02 in the tank.

 

[kamel_007]

hi

my discus still bad,,, no IMPROVEMENT???!!!

and i see something like a cotton or yarn out from the gills,

still flicking and black...

 

[WILDER]

Ditch the methylene blue no good for itch, you will have to do a water change and run some carbon, can you take a closer look at athe thing on the gill to make sure it isn't an external parasite, a magifying glass might be needed.