iamzrad
Members
Sounds like bacteria.
What are your water parameters?
What are your water parameters?
msjinkzd
invert junkie
Definitely increase your water changes. Sounds like hemorraghic septicemia:
Symptoms:
Bright red streaks on fins (caused by vascular inflammation due to systemic/bloodborne bacterial infection), patchy red discoloration around the body, pop-eye, protrusion of scales, distended abdomen, rapid breathing
Causes:
Gram negative motile rod bacteria. It is usually associated with poor water quality, stress and overpopulation. Transmission is done by contamination of water with diseased fish.
Treatment:
Broad spectrum antibiotics. Frequent water changes are necessary to improve water quality and allowing recovery of fish.
Symptoms:
Bright red streaks on fins (caused by vascular inflammation due to systemic/bloodborne bacterial infection), patchy red discoloration around the body, pop-eye, protrusion of scales, distended abdomen, rapid breathing
Causes:
Gram negative motile rod bacteria. It is usually associated with poor water quality, stress and overpopulation. Transmission is done by contamination of water with diseased fish.
Treatment:
Broad spectrum antibiotics. Frequent water changes are necessary to improve water quality and allowing recovery of fish.
Lively
Members
Definitely increase your water changes. Sounds like hemorraghic septicemia:
Symptoms:
Bright red streaks on fins (caused by vascular inflammation due to systemic/bloodborne bacterial infection), patchy red discoloration around the body, pop-eye, protrusion of scales, distended abdomen, rapid breathing
Causes:
Gram negative motile rod bacteria. It is usually associated with poor water quality, stress and overpopulation. Transmission is done by contamination of water with diseased fish.
Treatment:
Broad spectrum antibiotics. Frequent water changes are necessary to improve water quality and allowing recovery of fish.
You sound like House... I swear I've heard that diagnoses!
lonlangione
Members
You don't say how long you have had this fish. If it is a new addition, it is probably a bacterial infection from shipping and handling especially of it is a open wound. If it is a fish you have had awhile, I would take the fish out of the tank and put it into a small tank like a 5 or 10 gallon and treat it. You definitely need to be at the next meeting to hear Eric's talk on corys. He covers this type of thing.
Lonny
Lonny
