Need help with disease

[ger87410]

My fish are dying and I don't know why. It's not due to overstocking as all of the fish are still juveniles. Symptoms are the fish developes what looks like white spots all over it's body(only the clown loach has had this happen, the tinfoils have it develope on their head only) like ick but larger. Labored breathing, red spots on some of the scales like it's bleeding a little. Lazy fish syndrom. The water parameters have been perfect in eveything but high nitrate. Did 3 water changes this week and still high nitrate. It's spreding like wildfire. All of the fish are getting it, even the healthy ones. At first their was a case of ick that everyone got. I treated with quick cure adn it got rid of the ick, but then those weird spots got there. So I treated with melafix, no good. So I treated with pimafix, no good. So now I'm treating with super sulfa and we'll see what happens. I treated 4 hours ago and it looks like they are getting worse. And in the mean time, my fish are dropping like flies. I lost half already. Is this just a weird strain of some disease?

 

[tstenback]

the first thing you must do is get the nitrates down. First what is the nitrate level in your tank. What is the nitrate level right out of the tap? And if you could post a picture it would really help. I think that it might be Hemorrhagic Septicemia and E.M. tablets from aquarium pharmacueticals may help or perhaps fungus eliminator from Jungle. HTH

 

[ger87410]

The nitrate level maxed out for the test that I was doing. I do a water change once or twice a week(my bottled water seller loves me. I've been using them to decrease the ph, hardness, and alkalinity of the water fresh outta the tap which is high on everything. U think it's a fungus?

 

[tstenback]

The nitrate level maxed out for the test that I was doing. I do a water change once or twice a week(my bottled water seller loves me. I've been using them to decrease the ph, hardness, and alkalinity of the water fresh outta the tap which is high on everything. U think it's a fungus?

i think it may be Hemorrhagic Septicemia that can be treated by E.M tablets and Maracyn-2 and also have heard that fungus eliminator by Jungle can help as well. If this is Hemorrhagic Septicemia then it is most likely a water quality issue which means that you must get the levels of ammonia, nitrite and nitrate under control quickly or you will loose more fish. Do this by 20% water changes daily for 4-5 days and also ensure that you clean the gravel well as you chnage the water as this is part of the water quality as well. HTH

 

[ger87410]

I figured out something, my nitrate was somewhere around 20 ppm. Could that be the cause of all my problems?

 

[Sassygrrl]

Go get some Amqul+ and quick! It immediately lowers the nitrites, nitrates and ammonia in the tank. And it's perfectly safe for the fish and tank. I will take a look at my disease book and see if I can tell, but the red sounds like septicemia...

Either way, I would do the treatments that tstenback mentioned. But get those nitrates down ASAP!

 

[ger87410]

I was reading my tests wrong. It's the nitrite that's high, not the nitrate. What does nitrite poisoning look like?