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Help. Please could someone copy and paste the disease questionaire as I don't know how with a tablet. Thanks

 

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General
Where do you stay?
How long have you been keeping tropical fishes?
How long has the tank been running before you added fish/this fish?
What fish do you have in your Tank (type, number and size)?
When did you last buy any new fish?
Which food are you feeding and how often do you feed?


Disease
Describe the problem that the fish is having (behaviour, breathing, excretion (droppings), food intake, colour)?
Is the fish eating?
Has the problem occurred before?:
Have you treated the problem and how?
Have you had any other problems in the past?
What were they?
Did you treat for these problems?
How?

Your aquarium & Maintenance
How big is the tank. (L x b x h)?
How many litres of water?
What type of filter do you run?
What is IN the filter?
How many litres per hour is the filter rated for?
How often do you clean your tank?
How do you clean your tank?
How much water do you take out for Water change?
Do you prepare your water for water changes? How and what do you add?
What water do you use. (Tap, bore hole, RO)?
What substrate do you have?
What else is in the tank (Rocks, plants, fake plants, shells, anything else)?

Water parameters in your aquarium
Describe the water (smell and colour)?
Temperature of the water?
General hardness (GH)?
Carbonate hardness (KH)?
Ammonia:
Nitrite (No2-)?
Nitrate (No3-)?
pH?
How did you test these? Have you checked the expiry date on the test kits?

Lights
What light do you have?
How long is the light on for?
Do you have lots of plants in the tank (real or fake)?
How do you fertilize the plants?

If possible, can you post some pictures of
(1) The sick fish
(2) A close up of the sick fish, and/or effected area
(3) the full tank.

 

@Aqua - Thanks very much +1

 

My pleasure

 

General
Where do you stay? Cape Town
How long have you been keeping tropical fishes? 9 Months
How long has the tank been running before you added fish/this fish? The tank has been running for months and the fish were added after days. The water was from my 30l and the topped up. Filters etc were moved across to this tank. The GBR female with the problem was added 3 weeks ago.
What fish do you have in your Tank (type, number and size)? 11 Harlequin Rasbora (1.5cm), 6 Cardinals (2cm), 4 Dwarf Gourami (6-8cm), 2 German Blue Ramirezi (4-5cm), 1 L144 Ancistrus (4cm), Male Guppies 3(3cm) 6(1cm), 5 mixed cories (2.5 - 4cm)
When did you last buy any new fish? 10 days ago - L144
Which food are you feeding and how often do you feed? Freshly hatched Ocean Nutrition Brine Shrimp (every 2nd evening after a very small quantity of food), other meals are Nutrafin Max Cichlid sinking granules and Nutrafin Max Bottom feeder sinking tablets (06h00 & 18h00), Tetra Variety (colour/growth & conditioning/vegetable/balanced) Flakes or Tetra Pro Colour with Tetra Pro Algae


Disease
Describe the problem that the fish is having (behaviour, breathing, excretion (droppings), food intake, colour)? My GBR female is flashing, sitting mid level facing up at about 50-60 degrees, breathing heavily, excretion is long and white, not eating, colour pale-ish with a possible mark on her left side or possibly I'm imagining it
Is the fish eating? No
Has the problem occurred before?: No
Have you treated the problem and how? I've done nothing yet
Have you had any other problems in the past? Ich a few weeks back (no signs since), I recently lost 3 male guppies (approx 1.5cm) of unknown causes (nothing obvious), I currently have a guppy who has been labouring for maybe a week (harrased by others, lying about until you get close) who looks like his left gill is swollen
What were they?
Did you treat for these problems? Yes
How? Ich - Heat (32 degrees for two weeks) and 10 teaspoons of aquarium salt, dead guppies (fished them out the tank - No Cure - They were dead!)

Your aquarium & Maintenance
How big is the tank. (L x b x h)? 915x330x350 - 105l
How many litres of water? 90l
What type of filter do you run? Internal Boyu 603e Sub filter (diy - filter floss, foam, matrix, bio ceramic, purigen) and double canister internal corner filter (same media)
What is IN the filter?
How many litres per hour is the filter rated for? 400l/hr
How often do you clean your tank? Weekly/Twice a week
How do you clean your tank? Gravel Vac
How much water do you take out for Water change? 20-40l
Do you prepare your water for water changes? How and what do you add? Add Nutrafin Cycle and Aqua Safe and aerate water for 20min with an airstone
What water do you use. (Tap, bore hole, RO)? Tap Water
What substrate do you have? 3mm Silica gravel
What else is in the tank (Rocks, plants, fake plants, shells, anything else)? Dragon rock, assortment of other flat stones, real plants, mopani wood

Water parameters in your aquarium
Describe the water (smell and colour)? Light brown in colour (tannins) and musty in smell
Temperature of the water? 27 degrees
General hardness (GH)? 5
Carbonate hardness (KH)? 2-5 (light yellow at 2 and bright yellow by 5 - Sera test kit
Ammonia: NH4 - 0.5 ; NH3 - 0.003
Nitrite (No2-)? 0
Nitrate (No3-)? 10
pH? 7
How did you test these? Have you checked the expiry date on the test kits? Sera Aqua test kit and expires next year june

Lights
What light do you have? T8 - 2no 20w "white" Boyu and 1 35w "red" Boyu
How long is the light on for? 2hrs in the morning (6-8) and 7hrs in the evening (4-11)
Do you have lots of plants in the tank (real or fake)? Lots of real plants
How do you fertilize the plants? Flourish root tabs and Flourish Fundamentals and Essentials

If possible, can you post some pictures of
(1) The sick fish
(2) A close up of the sick fish, and/or effected area
(3) the full tank.

 

@MarcHawke Maybe she's constipated.

 

Lost my one bolivian ram loke this today also

 

I read about parasites but I'm at a loss here. This seriously sucks

 

Better get some sleep. Hope she is still alive in the morning.

 

She's still alive but hovering above the internal filter, still not eating and still gasping.

 

Could an internal bacterial infection
Remove the fish to qt tank

 

@Khalid - Thanks. Treat with what? I need to get something today. I don't think she is going to make it otherwise.

 

as per @Khalid and 10% daily water changes to give her the best chance of surviving.

 

@mydummyname - Do I need to quarantine all the fish and what about the tank they are all in? Probably not related but some of the 3cm guppies tails are ragged (no white edges) which I thought would just grow closed. I have just been reading about Gill Flukes - could be this...

 

Hey Mark - Do you have any Microbe-lift Herbtana or Artemiss? They are natural treatments and can be used together, dosed 12 hours apart. They are good, do no harm, general treatments for I don't know what it is and don't know what to do next. @Henk Hugo - Would you recommend this?

@Marco - you've had some experience with GBRs. Can you shed some light? What would you do?

@Dirk - Can you possibly give some suggestions/insight please?

 

@Jenn - Thanks very much. This is really stressful. Of all my fish, my GBR's are my favourite! I don't know what Herbtana or Artemiss are but I will look them up now.

 

The website says that Herbtana and Artemiss are for Reef tanks so back to square one.

 

Hi @MarcHawke,

What about trying Paraguard, (Seachem), it states the following (only part of what it says on the bottle):

".. efficiently erradicates many ectoparasites (eg. ich, etc..) and external fungal/baterial/viral lesions (eg.fin rot)..."

Perhaps since you are not 100% sure of what it is, this would be a good option. I personally have always liked using Bio-elite products which are aloe based and herbal, which also work, but they do take longer to work and in your case, it appears you need something that will work faster...

HTH

Candice