Black Spot In Parrots

[rach3l---x]

Hello

Help me.. Please. Hehe .

What is black spot disease - in parrot fish.
Or Black ich???..

How do I know if my parrot has got it?..
How do you treat it?..
Is it harmful??..

I'm worried my fish has it.
Since I've got it it's just increasingly gettin black marks - petshop said this is normal .. I'm unsure.. It doesn't look very normal

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[Corleone]

Black spot disease is pretty unusual - it isn't something you generally develop at home, but comes in on wild caught fish (parrots, being a hybrid, aren't wild caught). I don't know anything else about it, as I've never dealt with it or even seen a definite case on this forum.

Anyway, catching up on your other thread, I can think of two possibilities: Stress marks and ammonia burns.

Do you have a test kit yet? The tank is almost certain to be in a cycle, and will likely have high ammonia and/or nitrite levels. In high concentrations, ammonia can cause black "burns" on fish. This is probably less likely than stress marks, though will be from the same cause.

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Review this thread, it covers how to control ammonia and nitrite levels during a fish-in cycle. Hopefully you'll be able to stabilize the tank he's in and upgrade to something suitable (at which point you can transfer the filter media to avoid going through this again).

 

[rach3l---x]

Thank you!!
If they are ammonia burns? Do these heal?

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[Corleone]

They will heal with time and water quality, but if ammonia is that high, there's other risks such as gill damage, which quite often doesn't heal. This may shorten the fish's life, but I've acquired fish from far worse conditions that have still recovered and had good quality of life.

Any ammonia in long term exposure can be bad. Anything over .25 is of immediate concern, anything over .50 can cause damage even in short term exposure.

 

[rach3l---x]

Thanks!!



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