Please Put My Mind At Rest! Redness On Zebra Danio

[dant1875]

Can you post water stats please.
Any white spots on him the size of a grain of salt.
What does his gills look like.
Any excess mucas on the gills or body of the fish.

Ammonia nil, nitrite nil, nitrate 10 - I'm overfiltered so never get any problems with water stats. Temp at 24. No spots at all, gills appear fine - he's red anyway so wouldn't be able to tell if they were red! No mucas at all - he is still swimming around but then he looks tired & sits on the sand (leaning slightly over to the right but nothing noticeably wrong with his fins) it's the swimming that looks amiss - like his bum's too heavy for him!

 

[dant1875]

Can you post water stats please.
Any white spots on him the size of a grain of salt.
What does his gills look like.
Any excess mucas on the gills or body of the fish.

Ammonia nil, nitrite nil, nitrate 10 - I'm overfiltered so never get any problems with water stats. Temp at 24. No spots at all, gills appear fine - he's red anyway so wouldn't be able to tell if they were red! No mucas at all - he is still swimming around but then he looks tired & sits on the sand (leaning slightly over to the right but nothing noticeably wrong with his fins) it's the swimming that looks amiss - like his bum's too heavy for him!

 

[WILDER]

Leaning to oneside on the substate can be bacterial. If it looks like the fish tail weighing him down in the water that can be swim bladder.
Does he look bloated or thin.

 

[dant1875]

Leaning to oneside on the substate can be bacterial. If it looks like the fish tail weighing him down in the water that can be swim bladder.
Does he look bloated or thin.

He doesn't look either bloated or thin - if it is swim bladder it hasn't swollen yet - he still seems heavy at the rear even when on the sand & I think the slight lean may have been due to him being by both filter intakes as it's not noticeable when he moves to another area?

 

[WILDER]

Is it possible to issolate him and try a bacterial med.

 

[dant1875]

Is it possible to issolate him and try a bacterial med.

I haven't got another tropical tank - I've got a smaller one but it's got 2 goldfish in so wouldn't be any good. I finshed the course of Maracyn Two almost a week ago & have had carbon in for the last 3 days - should I do another course of Maracyn or try & get swim bladder treatment?

 

[WILDER]

I would go in with another round of maracyn.
The med will only work if its bacterial infection of the swim bladder.

 

[dant1875]

I would go in with another round of maracyn.
The med will only work if its bacterial infection of the swim bladder.

Okey dokey - I'll start again with the Maracyn tomorrow - thanks Wilder

 

[WILDER]

Don't buy anymore fish till your tanks settles. Wait at least 4 weeks.
Good Luck.