White poo - and I should have known better

[Sean]

Howdy, I am wondering if anyone can give me advice regarding one fish in particular. I went ot my LFS and was offered 3 adult discus (pidgeon blood) for $20 each and I had already bought the day before a couple of blue turqs which were in my quarr tank. With the addition of an extra 3 adults I overloaded the filter big time (150Lt tank, not cycling for that long) nitrites went up one fish died and the others hid in the corner and lying sideways. I freaked acting stupidly I put all the fish in my display tank with 7 beautiful discus and as you would expect big disaster - every fish includng rummy noses and clown loaches and every discus develped white spot, aggggh. I have spent the last 2 weeks doing 25% water changes daily and medicating with formaldehyde and malachite green. Lost 4 tetras to white spot and managed to save the rest and now they all seem OK - clown loaches took a while to get back to health though. I estimate that I spent more than an hour a day on this one tank with measuring everything adjusting temp and changing water. Now I think I have at least 3 of the new fish with intestinal worms (and prob the rest too) please see photo attached and this fish is quite emaciated. I feel embarassed that I risk the health of my fish in this way - I have never treated for this before and am unsure how to proceed - if I need to. Not keen on outting anymore chemicals into my tanks too. Any advice would be much appreciated.

[kalebjarrod]

sorry i could not see a photo?

you obviously know that you did the wrong thing with the Q/T tank so lets not dwell on probs we can't fix

flukes or Rod would be great to answer this question, i have never had to deal with this problem yet. so my advice would be only what information i got from them, sorry

[Sean]

I tried to put the photo in with a size of about 20Kb and received the msg "Sorry, but the maximum filesize for all Attachments is reached. Please contact the Board Administrator if you have questions". Do you know who this is or what my prob is in posting the photo? Thank you for your reply.
Sean

[kalebjarrod]

yeah o.k i got an idea about the problem i will see if we can sort it out now

thanks sean

(p.s i may remove/edit this post after we have fixed the problem)

[weird]

Don't get me started with white poo problems ... so frustrating

There are quite a few posts on using flagyl , basically 3 daily treatments with w/cs ...

"6ppm means 6 mg / litre, so count the number of litres you have and multiply by 6 to figure out how many 400 or 200mg tabs you have to use. "

Of the treatments this one would have to be one of the less stressful on the fish.

I have been treating since Monday, and still white poo ... I think you have to do a follow up treatment if still persists.

[parasite]

for intestinal worms i would use Prazi or Panacur . Prazi also de-flukes ur fish. I find panacur added into food more effective at intestinal worms

www.discusforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=871

www.discusforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=870

[Sean]

for intestinal worms i would use Prazi or Panacur . Prazi also de-flukes ur fish. I find panacur added into food more effective at intestinal worms

www.discusforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=871

www.discusforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=870

Thanks, I will try the panacur and see how I go. Thanks you for your help -
Regards
Sean

[Sean]

Does ayone know what the normal range for 'breathing' or respiration rate in Discus? Some of mine have rates around 130 per minute and others 112 and one calm chap 92. Is this a good indication of stress level?

[flukes]

Iam actually a bit worried about this one, normally i would say yeah its hex use metro and you'll be right. But just yesterday i lost a beautiful crystal too something similar.

It started with the white poo, i treated with metro, nothing... Then it started getting fin rot till most of its fins where gone. Then i did a treatment of prazi, still nothing. Then the last thing was a treatment of multi cure.

Nothing seemed too help this fish, although now i look at it the white poo looked like it was the skin from the inside of the rectum, iam still unsure.

Overall the fish had been sic for about 2 months. Then the air pump died and so did he. Which then makes me think it might have had something too do with his respritary system.

Ill have too look into.

Sean - First thing is too try the metro, if that doesnt work, hopefully i will have found the reason and sorted out a treatment..

Thanks

Scott

[Sean]

Thanks, i will give it a try and let you know. I have a reasonable photo of the fish which may help, but am unable to post it on the forum. I think Ryan is looking into fixing this problem.
Cheers
Sean