Sick dwarf gourami

[mariedmead]

I bought 3 dwarf gourami at the weekend to put in my Rio 180. It has been running with no fish since Dec when I had a mass die off. (We think due to a nitrate spike caused by a small fish dying and went unnoticed) I removed the remaining 7 fish, did a 75% water change cleaned the filters and left it running for a couple of months. At the weekend I took a water sample to the LFS they said all was fine so I bought 3 dwarf gourami. This morning one of them was laying on its side struggling to breathe. It's slightly curved and had lost most of its colour on about half its body. The other 2 are swimming around fine.

I've done a water test with API fresh water test kit.
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 40 (which is about what it comes out of my tap at)

The guy at the LSD said they use local tap water so their fish should all be fine with the extremely hard water and nitrate levels.

Any advice?

Thanks
Marrie

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[mariedmead]

I bought 3 dwarf gourami at the weekend to put in my Rio 180. It has been running with no fish since Dec when I had a mass die off. (We think due to a nitrate spike caused by a small fish dying and went unnoticed) I removed the remaining 7 fish, did a 75% water change cleaned the filters and left it running for a couple of months. At the weekend I took a water sample to the LFS they said all was fine so I bought 3 dwarf gourami. This morning one of them was laying on its side struggling to breathe. It's slightly curved and had lost most of its colour on about half its body. The other 2 are swimming around fine.

I've done a water test with API fresh water test kit.
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 40 (which is about what it comes out of my tap at)

The guy at the LSD said they use local tap water so their fish should all be fine with the extremely hard water and nitrate levels.

Any advice?

Thanks
Marrie

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Also looks like he may have a fungal issue. There is white fluffy stuff around his fins at the back.

Is this treatable?


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[Tyler_Fishman]

I bought 3 dwarf gourami at the weekend to put in my Rio 180. It has been running with no fish since Dec when I had a mass die off. (We think due to a nitrate spike caused by a small fish dying and went unnoticed) I removed the remaining 7 fish, did a 75% water change cleaned the filters and left it running for a couple of months. At the weekend I took a water sample to the LFS they said all was fine so I bought 3 dwarf gourami. This morning one of them was laying on its side struggling to breathe. It's slightly curved and had lost most of its colour on about half its body. The other 2 are swimming around fine.

I've done a water test with API fresh water test kit.
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 40 (which is about what it comes out of my tap at)

The guy at the LSD said they use local tap water so their fish should all be fine with the extremely hard water and nitrate levels.

Any advice?

Thanks
Marrie

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We're the fish just bought and placed in the tank without quarantine? If that's the case your water is fine, you just have bought a sick fish it sounds like it has coulminaris with the despcription you gave of its behavior and

 

[mariedmead]

We're the fish just bought and placed in the tank without quarantine? If that's the case your water is fine, you just have bought a sick fish it sounds like it has coulminaris with the despcription you gave of its behavior and

They were quarantined in as much as there were / are no other fish in the tank. It has now died and I'm going to take it back to where I bought it tonight and get a refund. I've treated the tank with esha 2000 to try and make sure the other two remain healthy.

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[Tyler_Fishman]

They were quarantined in as much as there were / are no other fish in the tank. It has now died and I'm going to take it back to where I bought it tonight and get a refund. I've treated the tank with esha 2000 to try and make sure the other two remain healthy.

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Sorry for your loss, but if it was coulminaris, it favors warm conditions with hard water, and can live in your tank without a host for a good month or so, it's an areboic bacteria that favors high oxygen, treatment is antibiotics for the bacteria

 

[mariedmead]

Sorry for your loss, but if it was coulminaris, it favors warm conditions with hard water, and can live in your tank without a host for a good month or so, it's an areboic bacteria that favors high oxygen, treatment is antibiotics for the bacteria

Should I treat the tank with antibiotics to keep the remaining fish healthy? Where do I get antibiotics from? Can I get them from the lsf?

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[DoubleDutch]

No meds and certainly no antibiotics as long as you're not sure what the disease is.
We have swung from fungus to columnaris in 4 posts or so without even a pic.
DG's are prone to Dwarf Gourami Disease with all kind of sympoms. Beside of that I think you've got three males?

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