Nepadu
Mon Apr 09, 2012, 03:08 PM
Hello from Finland!
We are having trouble with our discus tank.
Last week we suddenly first lost one discus, with no symptoms at all. In the afternoon it was feeding, in the night it was dead. A couple of days after that one old discus had two abscesses in the forehead. Not looking like hole-in-the-head, but something else. I took him to be opened to know, what to treat. The doctor replied soon:
1. From the skin at the head area was found a lot of Ichtyobodo (formerly Costia)
2. At the gills was found singular Dactylogyrus sp
3. In the testines was found singular Spironucleus
The tank has been treated with Protozin (Waterlife). At this time other discuses were shivering. The first three doses have now been given and one more is to come today. Water quality is fine, no nitrite, pH is round 6,5. Tank is almost 500 litres, with two eheim 2215, other also is with this flowerbox (?) filtration. (Sorry, I donīt know the right word for this)
Now three of the discuses are having a new problem, their nostrils are getting larger.
Here a couple of pictures, any idea what might be the problem?
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/Nepadu/IMG_0689.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/Nepadu/IMG_0687.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/Nepadu/IMG_0681.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/Nepadu/IMG_0672.jpg[/img]
We are having trouble with our discus tank.
Last week we suddenly first lost one discus, with no symptoms at all. In the afternoon it was feeding, in the night it was dead. A couple of days after that one old discus had two abscesses in the forehead. Not looking like hole-in-the-head, but something else. I took him to be opened to know, what to treat. The doctor replied soon:
1. From the skin at the head area was found a lot of Ichtyobodo (formerly Costia)
2. At the gills was found singular Dactylogyrus sp
3. In the testines was found singular Spironucleus
The tank has been treated with Protozin (Waterlife). At this time other discuses were shivering. The first three doses have now been given and one more is to come today. Water quality is fine, no nitrite, pH is round 6,5. Tank is almost 500 litres, with two eheim 2215, other also is with this flowerbox (?) filtration. (Sorry, I donīt know the right word for this)
Now three of the discuses are having a new problem, their nostrils are getting larger.
Here a couple of pictures, any idea what might be the problem?
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/Nepadu/IMG_0689.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/Nepadu/IMG_0687.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/Nepadu/IMG_0681.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/Nepadu/IMG_0672.jpg[/img]