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FAQs on Freshwater Infectious
(bacterial, fungal) Diseases 5 Related Articles: Freshwater Fish Diseases, Freshwater Diseases, FW
Disease Troubleshooting,
Choose Your Weapon: Freshwater Fish Disease Treatment
Options by Neale Monks,
Related FAQs: Infectious FW Diseases 1,
Infectious FW Diseases 2,
Infectious FW Disease 3,
Infectious FW Disease 4, &
Finrot, Dropsy/Dropsical Conditions,
Aquarium
Maintenance, FW Parasitic Diseases, African Cichlid Disease 1,
Cichlid
Disease, Betta Disease 1,
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Bala shark and silver dollar fish,
hlth., eyes are more than mirrors of the soul... 7/3/08
Hi, I recently adopted 6 tropical fish. It was a long process. so the
fish were without a filter and pump for about 3-4 hrs, but before we got to
them they were in a large bucket with an air pump for about 2-3hrs. Anyways
we got them setup in a 55 gal tank. The following morning we notice the Bala
shark and silver dollar fish had cloudy eyes. All the other fish are fine. I
would like to know are the fishes just stressed or does it sound like a
parasite. We were told by the previous owners that they are all healthy.
please write me back. Thank you Annie
<Cloudy eyes can be caused by a variety of things, but by far the most
probable are physical damage and/or water quality issues. If multiple fish
have cloudy eyes, then I'd suggest water quality is the thing. So review in
particular the nitrite and/or ammonia levels, and also check that the pH is
stable (doesn't matter much what it is, just that it doesn't change). Repair
water quality, starting at the least with a 50% water change using a good
water conditioner. I'd also treat proactively with an anti-Finrot medication
such as Maracyn or eSHa 2000. These medications will roll back any
opportunistic bacterial infections that left untreated will blind your fish.
Melafix and salt are largely worthless for this type of thing, so don't be
conned into those! Cheers, Neale.>
Fish parasites
05/14/08
Hilo,
<Hiya, Darrel here tonight -- the REALLY cool kids are off exploring the Red Sea
and the inside of a number of sleazy dock-side bars and cantinas around the
world. Those of us THAT DIDN'T GET INVITED are here filling in. Bitter?
Me? Noway!>
Situation: About 2 months ago I got 8 cory cats into my new (3 months
established at that time) planted tank, didn't quarantine and learned my lesson!
<LIFE: LESSONS NOT INCLUDED!>
3 of the cories came down with ick and fungus, first I treated the planted tank
with ick medicine and fungus medicine for 3 days and that didn't work, so I
moved them to a 5 gallon treatment tank and only treated with increased temp to
82 C and salt for 1 week. They seemed ok after one week, so put the 3 cories
back and a few days later several of the other cories got sick..so moved those
ones to the medicine tank for same treatment but for 3 weeks. Moved them back
into main tank, seemed ok for a few days and again one of the other cories now
seems sick...they (3 different cories) are flashing very severely and one of
them has reddened gills, but I cannot see ick spots. They are all eating fine
and very active otherwise. I'm very frustrated at this musical chairs of some
cories getting sick and some not and this constant re-infection...
<Stop ........ I'm getting dizzy just reading about it>
So today I moved all 8 cories (even though some of them seemed fine) into the
quarantine tank and pretty sure I am just going to treat all of them for
parasites tomorrow. How long should I now quarantine I was thinking 2 weeks?
<think 6 weeks>
The only other inhabitants of the main tank are 7 tetras.
My question is: if I treat all my cories with Jungle parasite clear, should I
move the tetras into the medicine tank and treat them too? The tetras have
seemed fine from the beginning and have not come down with ick, fungus nor are
they flashing. Are they harboring anything that they might then cross transfer
to my cories when I return the cories? Is it possible for parasites to just
infect certain species (i.e. cory specific parasites)?
<Fish can harbor parasites, for which they are not yet symptomatic, parasites
for which they are essentially immune yet are carriers ... the list goes on. Ick
treatments are noted to be toxic to Tetras. read here
www.wetwebmedia.com/FWSubWebindex/ichfaqs.htm >
Does my main tank have the parasites in it?
<Absolutely! Ick needs a fish host in order to complete a life cycle. By leaving
the planted tank nice, planted and empty of fish during the time the corys are
being treated and the Tetras isolated in yet another quarantine tank (MORE
LESSONS!) the ick will not find a fish host and it's life cycle will be
interrupted.>
How do I treat the thank then because I have a planted tank? (The first time I
tried treating the cories I put ick medicine and fungus medicine right in the
tank and it was a disaster..my plants practically died..)
Tank: 33gallon planted
peat filtered
Nitrates 5pmm
nitrites 0
ammonia 0
ph 6.8
soft
T 27
weekly water changes 20%
thanks very much for any advice, you guys are great..
<Well, yes and no, maybe we're not. There is information on this one web site
alone with more data, specifications, stories, anecdotes, warnings, tales,
cautions, articles, sidebars, FAQ's and FGA's JUST ABOUT QUARANTINE ALONE ......
that there is no reason whatsoever that we shouldn't have reached you and
convinced you ....but we didn't, did we? No matter how hard we try, we can't
teach "experience">
cheers
Terri
<On the bottom of this page, Google Search Bar click WetWebMedia and type "cory
cat ick" and "tetra ick" and read, read, read!
Oh ... one last thing ... patience>
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