HELP!!! Fish are sick

[sej683s]

ok thanks. its just a little bit on his mouth. ill see how they are when i get home. what do you think about the fins of the severum ? how in the crap did i manage to get all these problems at once!!!!

 

[WILDER]

You can get white spots on fins with columnaris.
http/www.mushi.petfish.net/columnaris.html

 

[WILDER]

Flexibacter columnaris (Columnaris disease or Saddleback disease)



A. Gram-negative slender rods (3-8 microns)



B. The disease is a serious disease of young salmonids, catfish and many other fish.



C. This is a highly communicable disease. Lesions usually first appear as small white spots on the caudal fin and progresses towards the head. The caudal fin and anal fins may become severely eroded. As the disease progresses, the skin is often involved with numerous gray-white ulcers. Gills are a common site of damage and may be the only affected area. The gill lesions are characterized by necrosis of the distal end of the gill filament which progresses basally to involve the entire filament.



D. Flexibacter columnaris infections are frequently associated with stress conditions. Predisposing factors for Columnaris disease are high water temperature (25oC-32oC.), crowding, injury, and poor water quality (low oxygen and increased concentrations of free ammonia).



E. Flexibacter maritimus: cause similar problems in salt water environment.



F. Flexibacter psychrophilus causes Cold Water Disease or Peduncle disease. Fish develop dark skin, hemorrhage at the base of fins, and anemia with pale gills with increase mucus. Hemorrhage into the muscles is common. Periostitis of cranial and vertebral bones is common in chronic cases. Chronic meningoencephalitis occasionally is observed with abnormal and erratic swimming.

 

[sej683s]

ok, i will treat them for it. does this sound like a good idea

fill quarantine tank with water from my main tank, put fish in it and treat them for the slime and stuff. in the meantime i will drain my main tank and clean all the food out of the bottom of it, replace the gravel and clean the plants and start all over on it...

would that work or should i not move the fish

lastly, is it normal for the severum to have shredded looking side fins?

 

[WILDER]

Just give it a good gravel vac as if you clean the gravel or replace it you will destroy the bacteria colony in your gravel, treat the fish with slime in a seperate tank that should be fine,streaded fin is not normal it could be a second infection with having the columnaris.

 

[sej683s]

but it has always had the fin like that. so was it sick when i got it and it infected the other fish?

 

[WILDER]

The bacteria med should clear the stredded fins up, good luck.

 

[sej683s]

thanks

 

[sej683s]

the fins on my fish look like newbie alicia's fish. i read her thread and think the issue with the fins is from the tiger barbs biting and it getting infected. so ill treat for slime, that bacteria and seperate the aggressive fish