lgarvey
Fish Crazy
Hi,
I seem to be posting here a lot! =)
I think my fish has velvet, and wonder if anyone has experience of this disease and can confirm whether it is this or something else.
I got a fish awhile back that was in a bad state. I was buying 6 fish from the LFS and didn't realise this one was diseased. The moment it was put in the tank it was lifeless and floated at the top of the tank. It appeared to have a whitish coating to its scales and on returning it the guy at the LFS said that it appeared to be struggling to breath through one gil.
Anyway he gave me a replacement fish from the same tank (big mistake!) The new fish seemed to be well compared to the first fish, but didn't want to eat, wasn't lively like the rest of the mbuna and just seemed 'different' despite being an mbuna. Over the period of about 6 weeks this fish deteriorated in the same way as the first fish and I had to euthanise it.
Now all the fish appear to occasionally scrape against the substrate. They do it infrequently, but when they do it appears as though they're irritated, not that they're defining territory. For instance, sometimes they'll swim across the tank bouncing 2-4 times on the substrate. But this only happens infrequently. There's no external signs, white spots etc. on these fish.
The bumblebee mbuna I have deteriorated and was sat on the substrate with clamped fins and breathing heavily. It seemed to recover for about a week and now it again looks unwell. There were no obvious external signs until now. On one side of the bumblebee there appears to be a white coating, or perhaps the scales are coming off? It doesn't look like the typical white spots that result from ich, though.
Here's a pic: -
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You can faintly see the white on the 2nd brown band to the right of the fishes head. It's not easy to spot in this picture, but is definitely something that was that there before and is not on the other side of the fish.
I have learned my lesson about looking carefully at the fish I am buying, ensuring the whole tank is healthy and quarantining new fish for two weeks prior to putting them in the main tank. But I now need to deal with this issue, which I suspect will (is?) start to affect other tank inhabitants.
I suspect it may be necessary to treat the whole tank when I have a clear enough idea of what the problem is.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
L
PS. A yellow lab seemed to deteriorate rapidly just as the bumblebee recovered, with similar clamped fins, panting sitting on substrate and not eating but without any obvious external signs.
I seem to be posting here a lot! =)
I think my fish has velvet, and wonder if anyone has experience of this disease and can confirm whether it is this or something else.
I got a fish awhile back that was in a bad state. I was buying 6 fish from the LFS and didn't realise this one was diseased. The moment it was put in the tank it was lifeless and floated at the top of the tank. It appeared to have a whitish coating to its scales and on returning it the guy at the LFS said that it appeared to be struggling to breath through one gil.
Anyway he gave me a replacement fish from the same tank (big mistake!) The new fish seemed to be well compared to the first fish, but didn't want to eat, wasn't lively like the rest of the mbuna and just seemed 'different' despite being an mbuna. Over the period of about 6 weeks this fish deteriorated in the same way as the first fish and I had to euthanise it.
Now all the fish appear to occasionally scrape against the substrate. They do it infrequently, but when they do it appears as though they're irritated, not that they're defining territory. For instance, sometimes they'll swim across the tank bouncing 2-4 times on the substrate. But this only happens infrequently. There's no external signs, white spots etc. on these fish.
The bumblebee mbuna I have deteriorated and was sat on the substrate with clamped fins and breathing heavily. It seemed to recover for about a week and now it again looks unwell. There were no obvious external signs until now. On one side of the bumblebee there appears to be a white coating, or perhaps the scales are coming off? It doesn't look like the typical white spots that result from ich, though.
Here's a pic: -
http
/www.lyndongarvey.co.uk/sick-bumblebee.pngYou can faintly see the white on the 2nd brown band to the right of the fishes head. It's not easy to spot in this picture, but is definitely something that was that there before and is not on the other side of the fish.
I have learned my lesson about looking carefully at the fish I am buying, ensuring the whole tank is healthy and quarantining new fish for two weeks prior to putting them in the main tank. But I now need to deal with this issue, which I suspect will (is?) start to affect other tank inhabitants.
I suspect it may be necessary to treat the whole tank when I have a clear enough idea of what the problem is.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
L
PS. A yellow lab seemed to deteriorate rapidly just as the bumblebee recovered, with similar clamped fins, panting sitting on substrate and not eating but without any obvious external signs.
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