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Becca

Becca

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Frank Cowherd said:
You might look up myxobolus cerebralis, which causes whirling disease. It is a parasite and there is one stage that does attach to the surface of the fish, which may be what you are seeing.


I do not believe there is a cure once the whirling starts. Don't know about before it starts.



Menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay get it sometimes. The organism is in all local waters.
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Interesting. Some of the symptoms Christine's fish are having, including the really fast onset, are similar to what I saw in my fish when the 29 crashed. I did not, however, see any growths on their heads or bodies.
 
chriscoli

chriscoli

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You guys are awesome, thanks for all of your help! I'll keep you posted and if any other thoughts come to mind, please let me know!
 
cichlidaddicted

cichlidaddicted

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I could be way off but if I saw that on one of my fish I would isolate and treat with hi concentrate meth. Blue baths. If he was eating I'd use focus and kanamycin also. Just a hunch.

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Becca

Becca

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If you need focus and/or kanamycin, Tropical Lagoon usually carries them, but I also have some handy if you can't find it.
 
chriscoli

chriscoli

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I have kanamycin but not sure that's what I need right now. Thanks, though, Becca!


Happen to have any potassium permanganate?
 
mchambers

mchambers

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Jungle Clear Water is mostly potassium permanganate. I don't have any, but I bet a LFS would carry it.
 
Becca

Becca

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Texted you :).... unless I know another Christine... pretty sure you're the only one I know.
 
Frank Cowherd

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Potassium permanganate is available at a lot of hardware stores since it is use to regenerate green sand in purifying water for home use where the water has a lot of iron and other minerals.

Hydrogen peroxide will destroy any excess KMnO4 and turn the muddy manganese dioxide by-product precipitate to clear colorless. Not sure if it will remove KMnO4 stains from cloth or skin.

But based on other statements in this thread, I would think that a salt dip would be the first thing to do.
 
chriscoli

chriscoli

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Frank Cowherd said:
Potassium permanganate is available at a lot of hardware stores since it is use to regenerate green sand in purifying water for home use where the water has a lot of iron and other minerals.

Hydrogen peroxide will destroy any excess KMnO4 and turn the muddy manganese dioxide by-product precipitate to clear colorless. Not sure if it will remove KMnO4 stains from cloth or skin.

But based on other statements in this thread, I would think that a salt dip would be the first thing to do.
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Indeed, salt is probably the first thing to try.

I've run into the need for KMnO4 a few other times recently and didn't have it on hand so I'm thinking that it's a good thing to have around in any case...
 
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