Willie T

So I am waiting on the Wormer X to come should be here tomorrow, says dose once then after 48 hours do a water change then do it again in 2 weeks, does that sound right?

Hello Everyone: ammonia : 0 nitrites : 0 nitrates: 5ppm So recently I posted about discus tank having excessive slime coat / dark, 5 out of the 7 made it and are doing well with the exception of one 5” blue diamond, from all apparent looks there is nothing wrong, no white poop, no external injuries etc.. she twitch’s her fins occasionally and kind of hangs out alone, not hiding or in the corner and also not eating much. Treated the tank with Prazi for gill flukes, thought maybe mating , all others are acting great, this one is puzzling, want to get her back eating and thriving again. thanks

Thanks , I appreciate all the help. These guys aren’t looking good, I don’t give up, but if this doesn’t work, guess I have to figure out something

Ok, so that would be dosing daily then correct?

Thanks for all the help, I have the 2 of them in a QT 20 gallon now, I put 1/4 teaspoon of Oxytetracycline in last night? Do you know what the recommended dosing is? I have heard so many different things, I have Heard do it daily, and every 3 days etc..

So it’s pretty safe to say that they most likely won’t get better with just salt in the main tank?

I will have to start them on Wednesday, I have a bunch of Oxytetracycline I could start tonight. Would that be any help!

Ammonia-0 nitrite -0 nitrates- 5-10 ppm So I posted on here before and was advised to used Kanaplex for the discus that had excessive slime coat/ fin rot. 2 of them went from black looked like death to perfect color so 5 of 7 are good , I have done 2 rounds of Kanaplex and there are still 2 that aren’t doing so well. Should I quarantine, these 2 and medicate with something different like API fin and body? I am worried about continuing to treat the whole tank and killing all my hood bacteria. Should I do this or just keep on with salt and hope the get better? They both were eating and now are not.

Fish are looking much better but not 100 % I’m on the 3rd dose of Kanaplex, can I run another round or a 4th dose? It says as long as fish don’t show stress.

Thanks, can you add a few tbls of Salt while treating with Kanaplex?

I started the Kanaplex, I was able to get most of them to eat it with food, but 1 wouldn’t really eat so I’m going to treat the water too. 🤞

I can’t really segregate because I think 6 out of 7 have it to some degree.

ph-7-0 ammonia -0 nitrite-0 nitrates -10 so I had to add these discus straight in the main tank after1 week of QT, due to another Ram I had to put in the qt, they have all contracted this thin white slime and they are still eating for the most part, but always bundled together, they obviously look bad, talked to Wattleys , said 3 days of Paragaurd then 30% water change then salt for a week. I’m about to add the salt, just wondering if that’s really what they need or some Oxytetracycline , it doesn’t appear to be internal, but just don’t want to Lose all 7 discus. 75 gallon tank.

Thanks Ken, yeah that’s basically the options, I’m going to assess in the morning, ( I just noticed this afternoon) if the Ram is still acting off and not eating then I will make a decision, if he is eating then I can give the metronidazole and antibiotic in the food , seems to always work better 🤞

I thought about that but as of now I know the 2 new discus are thriving and would hate to dose them with metro if they don’t need it. It’s a weird situation

Soooo . I just got 2 new large discus , they have been in quarantine for 6 days ( just for observation ) and are swimming and eating well with great color. I obviously want to keep them in there for another week or so before putting in my main tank with the others…My issue is that I think I have a sick Ram(not interested in food) in the main tank now, all the other Discus in there are fine, so I am debating on do I go ahead and put the new discus in the main tank and take out the Ram and medicate him, or just watch him and leave the discus in QT. Don’t really want to medicate the whole tank if it’s not needed. 🤷‍♂️ Don’t know the right decision, any suggestions? Thanks

Thanks, yeah, I just have other fish in the 75 so I have to treat the water, I guess I’m just wondering when they can go back into the main tank, it’s like they are dark then at night they are their normal color , moving around, look healthy then in the morning, in the corner again and dark????

So I have some Discus that turned darker and one had very long stringy poop, so I am medicating them in a Hospital tank with metronidazole, it seems like they are great some days then they are not 🤷‍♂️They are in a 20 gallon, I went ahead and started treatment on the 75 gallon they came from, So my question is when do I know it’s time to put them back in the tank? When they start eating? It’s odd so sometimes the fish is dark then last night he was vibrant then this morning he is back darker again?? The first pic is from last night the next is from this morning 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

**** Update.. got home and checked again… no ammonia, no nitrites, no nitrates or at best a small bit. Adding some beneficial bacteria, then, putting these guys in. thanks again for everything

Thanks, I would love to establish the beneficial bacteria, will that come back with daily water changes

Hello everyone thanks for any help. So my tank 75 Gallon tank has been cycled for about 8 weeks, I added fish about 2 weeks ago everything has been great, am expecting a shipment of discus today so I did a 60 ish % water change and when I did the water change, I had about 40ppm of NitrAte after the water change I had about 5ppm, fed the fish yesterday after water change , and yesterday morning, tested the water last night, and the nitrates were gone, readings were 0,0,0. Thought maybe hey it’s just clean, there only about 10 small fish in there, tested this morning and the was about 2ppm ammonia 0 nitrite , 0 nitrate?? I guess I removed all the beneficial bacteria when vacuuming the substrate… added prime and stability, but my discus will be here today and I have to put them in the tank. Any suggestions to keep them alive till I get more Bacteria?? thanks everyone