jahouli
Fish Fanatic
So I've been keeping fish for 4 years, and never experienced any diseases. I quite rated myself as a fish keeper because of this....until recently....
I have a 600l aquarium. Ammonia and nitrites nil, nitrates around 30. I was slow to notice my two red severums had what I could only diagnose as flukes. It took an outbreak of whitespot for me to realise I have to do something about it. I've done one course of protozin, but all except my silver dollars have responded to this....My clown loaches and siamese foxes are still riddled with the stuff, and are showing signs of fin degradation.
My severums have gone into a hosptial tank in which I'm trying an Interpet flukes treatment, along with a bit of melafix for the ulcers, and fin breakdown. I'm not holding out much hope here, but these are my favourite fish and really don't want to lose them.
I really don't know what to do next. I'm waiting 7 days in the hospital tank before I can retreat, but what do I treat first, the flukes of the whitespot, or the secondary infections?
In my main tank, I'm running the carbon before I do a 20% water change. But what do I treat next? The whitespot again, or is there a chance I'm mis-diagnosing whitespot for flukes?
Oh if only there was a magic pill............
I have a 600l aquarium. Ammonia and nitrites nil, nitrates around 30. I was slow to notice my two red severums had what I could only diagnose as flukes. It took an outbreak of whitespot for me to realise I have to do something about it. I've done one course of protozin, but all except my silver dollars have responded to this....My clown loaches and siamese foxes are still riddled with the stuff, and are showing signs of fin degradation.
My severums have gone into a hosptial tank in which I'm trying an Interpet flukes treatment, along with a bit of melafix for the ulcers, and fin breakdown. I'm not holding out much hope here, but these are my favourite fish and really don't want to lose them.
I really don't know what to do next. I'm waiting 7 days in the hospital tank before I can retreat, but what do I treat first, the flukes of the whitespot, or the secondary infections?
In my main tank, I'm running the carbon before I do a 20% water change. But what do I treat next? The whitespot again, or is there a chance I'm mis-diagnosing whitespot for flukes?
Oh if only there was a magic pill............