sick discus

[tazzblue77]

bought two Checkerbords about 2 weeks a go put them in my tank with another 7 discus wich were in good health after a few days all discus were breathing hard trying to rub there gills with there fins and scraping against plants i thought it was flukes treated them with a coarse of waterlife sterazin but has had no efected all fish eating well not sure what to do next any advice usefull or any one recomend a better treament

cheers

[the german]

wwelcome to the forum tazz

you didnt put them in quarantine?????
can you send some pics and the water parameter?


michael

[tazzblue77]

no never put in quarantine bad move there but place i got them from said he had them in quarantine for 3 weeks before sail

pics on way when i figer out how to do it lol

just raised temp up to 34
ph 6.5
dh 30
kh 0
no2 0
no3 0

thanks

[the german]

amonia?
you should have some readings,some nitrates??

[tazzblue77]

all ok every thing pulled round done big water change all discus unclamped eyes nice and red again

must put in quarantine next time thought i would lose some this time

cheers

[ILLUSN]

Tazz german is right you should have some reading, its a VERY rare tank with 0 ammonia/ammonium
0 NO3
0 NO2

[DiscusEden]

I didn't think waterlife sterazin was commonly used for flukes? I thought Prazi was more common?

[scott bowler]

no DE you can use sterazin for gill fluke and or other fluke that is what i use ,just that it is a bit hit and miss now for some reason it was a very good product but i think the bugs have bult up some sort of resistance to it now , but you can try it .

[DiscusEden]

OK. If it didn't work, and it sounds like maybe not, would it be worth Tazzblue77 trying a course of Prazi?

[scott bowler]

yeah sounds good i just thought that you may not have knowen about the sterazin hehe