Parasite?

fishkers

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Okay so I got these really neat Red Dalmation Platy's and the one just doesn't seem quite right. I put them in with my community tank for now. The tank has been set up for several months so its cycled but i found my one Red Dalmation Platy to have something wrong with her. It looks like she has internal bleeding in the brain. Its odd, the other two don't look like it at all. She just lays around and doesn't move much. She started like running into walls so I isolated her in a hospital tank for now. Here are the best pictures that I could get of her.

RDP1.jpg

RDP2.jpg

notice the red spot between the eyes....

So I need help any ideas what this might be and what I can treat it with???
 
i did also forget to mention she is showing, rapid breathing, loss of color, she eats quite a bit, seems to be sluggish, always hiding or laying at the bottom.

Thanks for reading....
 
I would end her misery she not going to make it sorry, she has a very bad bacterial infection.
The spot on the gills does it look like it turning into a hole.
 
The spot on the gills does it look like it turning into a hole.

Thats not a hole thats the dalmation print on her. She doesn't have a hole its just really red inside of her. She seems to be just acting depressed, laying around, sometimes she swims, now today though she won't eat which isn't good.

Really not sure what to do or how to treat????
 
Try a bacterial med in issolation.
 
If you can issolate an antibiotic like tetracycline, if not maracyn one and two.
 
Will do, she is already in isolation but i don't have TC so i'm gonna go the Maracyn and Maracyn 2 route thanks for your help... much appreciated!
 
Well she died tonight...

I've checked her and analyzed her and it seems to me that she just had internal bleeding of the brain. No other known causes, i'm positive it wasn't parasitic, and pretty sure it wasn't bacterial. I don't know the age of the fish so that could have been the problem as well.

Sometimes they just die...
 
Sorry R.I.P. she didn't sound good or look good.
 

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