Mylesmom08
Fish Fanatic
Fish:
-5 cory cats
-2 angelfish
Temperature:
-Constant 77-78
Readings:
-0/0/5 (A/NI/NA)
Water Change Schedule:
--25-30ish % every Saturday
Just a month ago, 1 of my 2 angelfish I've raised from babies started to get sick. They were a breeding pair and the male got injured during a lip-lock. The bottom of his lip got torn up, but it didn't stop him from breeding and continuing to eat. I upped my water changes to 25% every 2-3 days for a week to fix his lip before they tried breeding again (they breed like every 2 weeks). It wasn't helping since his lip started to deteriorate. I kept up the water changes and dosed ParaGuard for 2 weeks. During the 2 week treatment, he started to ignore the food and hang at the top. I turned up the aeration on my powerhead incase it was the meds/air factor, but sadly I ended up euthanizing him 3 days ago after he started laying/floating on the bottom and was unresponsive to any attempt I made to keep him upright. When he died, I did a 50% water change and stopped dosing the ParaGuard since it wasn't working. -- He had no other lesions during the entire time except his lip. However, my female is now displaying lesions that I think might be related to his death?
Now, my female is showing the same symptoms (hanging at the top, ignoring food) but she has a lesion starting on her left side, about half an inch from her pectoral fin. Her stomach is also largely bloated, but she hasn't ate since he died (she wouldn't leave his side the whole time except for food). Shes clamping her tail fin like a square now instead of the regular free flowing triangle shape. I haven't been able to see what her excrement looks like though, but the rest of her looks ok aside from the tail and hole type crater/lesion.
She's exactly 1 year old if age matters. The only connection I can think of is about 1 month before the male got sick (2 months ago total) I added an adult bristlenose pleco to eat the algae off my plants. But he was in quarantine for over a month, about 6 weeks (he was keeping my 20 gallon clean - what can I say?) and I got him from a good reputable ma and pa store in my town, the same ones who I got my angelfish from a year ago. I know humans can be carriers for diseases, so its probably safe to assume fish can too? The BN pleco showed no signs of disease during the entire time. But its the only thing I can think of since it was only 4 weeks until my angelfish got sick. I don't know what it could be or what to treat her with??
I should add that the "2 angelfish" count up top under the 5 cories is actually only the male (deceased) and female (the sick one). So really, I only have 1 angelfish. It's just a bad habit now to still say 2
-5 cory cats
-2 angelfish
Temperature:
-Constant 77-78
Readings:
-0/0/5 (A/NI/NA)
Water Change Schedule:
--25-30ish % every Saturday
Just a month ago, 1 of my 2 angelfish I've raised from babies started to get sick. They were a breeding pair and the male got injured during a lip-lock. The bottom of his lip got torn up, but it didn't stop him from breeding and continuing to eat. I upped my water changes to 25% every 2-3 days for a week to fix his lip before they tried breeding again (they breed like every 2 weeks). It wasn't helping since his lip started to deteriorate. I kept up the water changes and dosed ParaGuard for 2 weeks. During the 2 week treatment, he started to ignore the food and hang at the top. I turned up the aeration on my powerhead incase it was the meds/air factor, but sadly I ended up euthanizing him 3 days ago after he started laying/floating on the bottom and was unresponsive to any attempt I made to keep him upright. When he died, I did a 50% water change and stopped dosing the ParaGuard since it wasn't working. -- He had no other lesions during the entire time except his lip. However, my female is now displaying lesions that I think might be related to his death?
Now, my female is showing the same symptoms (hanging at the top, ignoring food) but she has a lesion starting on her left side, about half an inch from her pectoral fin. Her stomach is also largely bloated, but she hasn't ate since he died (she wouldn't leave his side the whole time except for food). Shes clamping her tail fin like a square now instead of the regular free flowing triangle shape. I haven't been able to see what her excrement looks like though, but the rest of her looks ok aside from the tail and hole type crater/lesion.
She's exactly 1 year old if age matters. The only connection I can think of is about 1 month before the male got sick (2 months ago total) I added an adult bristlenose pleco to eat the algae off my plants. But he was in quarantine for over a month, about 6 weeks (he was keeping my 20 gallon clean - what can I say?) and I got him from a good reputable ma and pa store in my town, the same ones who I got my angelfish from a year ago. I know humans can be carriers for diseases, so its probably safe to assume fish can too? The BN pleco showed no signs of disease during the entire time. But its the only thing I can think of since it was only 4 weeks until my angelfish got sick. I don't know what it could be or what to treat her with??
I should add that the "2 angelfish" count up top under the 5 cories is actually only the male (deceased) and female (the sick one). So really, I only have 1 angelfish. It's just a bad habit now to still say 2
I really don't know what else so I'll keep playing Clue until I find out
