Discus Problem Again

[SaTiVa1984]

Started dosing the tank with melafix, if anyone has other recommendations please advise.

 

[SaTiVa1984]

Clown loach that got put in the hospital tank died

Not a mark on him, still looked full of colour

The other loach seems a lot better, whizzng about the tank, but obviously missing its only companion, time to rehome it i think. Such a shame, those guys added a lot of personality to the tank.

 

[SaTiVa1984]

I am such an idiot

While measuring my new hospital tank earlier to work out a dose for some bruised angels, i decided for no apparent reason to measure my main tank.. to my horror i realised my tanks width is not 1.5ft that i had always thought it was, but actually closer to 1.2ft

All the dosages i have been adding to the main tank have been based on a 340l tank, when i should have been dosing for 290l, so the random death of the clown loach must have been from the wormer that i obviously overdosed badly, im such an #16#####

Before i go outside and kick myself to death, i thought i would share some pics of my discus finally starting to look himself again:

 

[afremont]

So the melafix cured the skin growth?

 

[SaTiVa1984]

So the melafix cured the skin growth?

I would not say cured, But it is definitely having a positive effect, the patches were the whitish growths were are almost completely gone, and it is only day 2 of dosing. He is also eating aggressively now.

Seems to get better and better as the days go by.

Infact you can still make out the main blotch to the right of its eye on the first pic.

 

[afremont]

So the melafix cured the skin growth?

I would not say cured, But it is definitely having a positive effect, the patches were the whitish growths were are almost completely gone, and it is only day 2 of dosing. He is also eating aggressively now.

Seems to get better and better as the days go by.

Infact you can still make out the main blotch to the right of its eye on the first pic.

Still, that's great. I'm a big fan of homeopathic or natural meds.

 

[SaTiVa1984]

So the melafix cured the skin growth?

I would not say cured, But it is definitely having a positive effect, the patches were the whitish growths were are almost completely gone, and it is only day 2 of dosing. He is also eating aggressively now.

Seems to get better and better as the days go by.

Infact you can still make out the main blotch to the right of its eye on the first pic.

Still, that's great. I'm a big fan of homeopathic or natural meds.

hehe i kinda like the smell of it, reminds me of vicks vapourub

This med was recommended by a friend again, as i have no clue about treating diseases, in all the years i have kept fish i think i have only ever had two issues before, one being ich, and the other a fungal infection on a plec.

 

[afremont]

hehe i kinda like the smell of it, reminds me of vicks vapourub

This med was recommended by a friend again, as i have no clue about treating diseases, in all the years i have kept fish i think i have only ever had two issues before, one being ich, and the other a fungal infection on a plec.

Yeah, I was going to say that; it does smell pretty good. ;-) I've seen allot of positive stuff about melafix. I have some dwarf gourami rescue fish (I have a problem and can't help myself) that I've thoroughly medicated while trying to save them. Apparently melafix is rough on labyrinth fish so I couldn't use it on them. I've become so obsessed with diagnosing sick fish that I am ordering a microscope and some basic dissecting tools.

 

[SaTiVa1984]

hehe i kinda like the smell of it, reminds me of vicks vapourub

This med was recommended by a friend again, as i have no clue about treating diseases, in all the years i have kept fish i think i have only ever had two issues before, one being ich, and the other a fungal infection on a plec.

Yeah, I was going to say that; it does smell pretty good. ;-) I've seen allot of positive stuff about melafix. I have some dwarf gourami rescue fish (I have a problem and can't help myself) that I've thoroughly medicated while trying to save them. Apparently melafix is rough on labyrinth fish so I couldn't use it on them. I've become so obsessed with diagnosing sick fish that I am ordering a microscope and some basic dissecting tools.

Hmm i have had 4 dwarf gouramis in the tank with melafix and they have shown no adverse effects at all, actually they were still building dam nests until i rehomed them this afternoon, they did have only 1 and a half day of dosing tho, and the bottle says to treat for 7.

 

[SaTiVa1984]

Just thought i would update this post if anybody was interested.

My discus is now perfectly fine, it took a lot of head scratching, changes, and meds to get him back to full health tho, now that he is all right i am now in the process of upping my discus count to 8

I started with eSHa hexamita med which picked him up a little, then used kusuri wormer which i overdosed and killed my clown loachs with, over the next few days i was doing daily 90% water changes while adding melafix, after a few more days he was looking really well, but was still having some off days where he would hide, this is when i noticed white poo and was recommended on here to try a anti-internal bacteria med, i went with eSHa 2000 as this treated a wide range of infections, this seemed to work.

More changes i made was removing the angels, and gouramis, i still have the plec but intend to also rehome him and switch to several corys to keep the sand free from uneaten food, i removed several plants from the tank that looked like they were struggling and replaced them with easier to keep plants (cabomba), i also took a lot of advice from another site that is dedicated to discus, and now do daily 60-70% water changes and keep my substrate pristine.

Thanks for your help

 

[Mr Melt]

Just thought i would update this post if anybody was interested.

My discus is now perfectly fine, it took a lot of head scratching, changes, and meds to get him back to full health tho, now that he is all right i am now in the process of upping my discus count to 8

I started with eSHa hexamita med which picked him up a little, then used kusuri wormer which i overdosed and killed my clown loachs with, over the next few days i was doing daily 90% water changes while adding melafix, after a few more days he was looking really well, but was still having some off days where he would hide, this is when i noticed white poo and was recommended on here to try a anti-internal bacteria med, i went with eSHa 2000 as this treated a wide range of infections, this seemed to work.

More changes i made was removing the angels, and gouramis, i still have the plec but intend to also rehome him and switch to several corys to keep the sand free from uneaten food, i removed several plants from the tank that looked like they were struggling and replaced them with easier to keep plants (cabomba), i also took a lot of advice from another site that is dedicated to discus, and now do daily 60-70% water changes and keep my substrate pristine.

Thanks for your help

Glad to hear it worked out well for you mate!