Spotted Climbing Perch, Ate 4 Neons, Then I Heard Of Neon Tet. Disease

[justbinB]

Hi there, I recently got two small spotted climbing perch, and the day I put them in my tank, they ate a few neons that I had in there ( I couldn't stand the empty tank while I was searching for the perfect "pet" fish, so I tossed a few tets in).

I wasn't too worried about it until I ran across info on neon tetra disease.

The neons had only been in there a week, and I was wondering what the chances are that they had it, and consequently how likely it is that my poor climbing perch will catch it as well as a result of my ignorance.

Just how often are neons infected with this disease?

Thank you

Justin

 

[WILDER]

How many gallons or litries is the tank.
Water stats in ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and ph.

Signs of neon tetra desease are.
Red stripe area looks bleached out or has a milky apppearance.
Blue area on fish can turn a yellowish colour like a golden varnish. Can look like velvet.
Fish leave the shoal and look irratable and restless.
Black linning around the red area.
Lumps on belly that go to a point.
Bent spines sometimes.
Later stages dropsy and popeye.
Think the fish swims oddly.
Fish look skinny.
Get you some info.

Go to neon tetra desease.
[URL="http/www.fish-disease.net/diseases.htm"]http/www.fish-disease.net/diseases.htm[/URL]


There also false ntd which is columnaris.
had neons with a broken band that look bleached out or milky they had ntd lost the whole tank to it.
Make sure its not columnaris that can look fluffy in appearance or bleaching beneath the skin.
If they have black linning around the red area that is a sign of ntd.

It does affect other fish but not sure on the perches only time will tell if its ntd.

 

[Corleone]

I see it in pet stores occasionally, but not that often. Symptoms are loss of coloration (it's most noticeable early in the red stripe), white lumps and in advanced cases deformities like a bent spine. I don't know if the climbing perch would be susceptible in the off chance that the neons had NTD - I know many cichlids and cyprinids are, but I don't know anything about it in relation with anabantoids.

Monitor the fish, and if you start to see symptoms, quarantine it if at all possible. There's no known treatment for NTD, but there is a bacterial disease with very similar symptoms (which can infect fish not normally vulnerable to NTD itself), so attempting treatment may be worthwhile.