advice on discus filtration

Hi Salim,

I am glad to hear that your fish has improved. As I explained to you the chances of them recovering are relatively low and it may be that your second fish will not recover. However, you should do to the 20% water change as I had recommended and then give the treatment again. The water change helps against damaging the bacteria in the filter and after you have treated the fishes for next three days, you should again do another water change of about 20%. You should then start again with regularly weekly water changes.

Let me know what the second fish does.

Kind regards,

Dirk

 

thank prof will keep you posted

 

Hi Professor

both my fish that had this disease is now fully up rite and swimming with no problems epsom salts done the trick i going through the net one day and discovered another forum where a discus breeder had this issue at his farm and he always had them come rite in fact he has breeding males that constantly breed for him but they are permanently damaged due to this disease thank you for your advice it worked every much .

So guys if any of you have this issue Epsom salt worked for me

 

Hi Salim,

I am glad to hear that your fishes are better.

Epsom salts are magnesium sulfate and they have an osmotic effect. However, you first applied sulfonamide drugs in the form of Purbac as I advised you and then you used the Epsom salts. As a result, I think that your deduction that the Epsom salts relieved the problem is not entirely correct, the Purbac was the primary reason why things improved, it was only the Epsom salts that helped with the problem. As a result, I think that one cannot just simply advise that Epsom salts will solve such a problem.

However, the main thing is that your fishes are better, now you should improve the feeding so that they can recover properly.

Kind regards,

Dirk

 

thank you professor i agree the antibiotics did work .....