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Please help me identify this mystery disease. A mystery disease has killed all the livebearers in my tank (1 molly, 6 guppies), but my neon tetras are completely unaffected. Most noticeable symptom are blood-red marks on their bodies (pictured). First, they hover at the water’s surface, and then right before they die they hide in dark areas and develop slight pineconing. They die 1-2 days after the mark(s) appear. The first time this happened, I waited 2-3 weeks before adding new guppies to my tank. In 3 weeks, the new guppies died with the same symptoms. Could something be “living” in my tank? Could the tetras be asymptomatic carriers? I’d add more guppies (my favorite fish) but it would just be inhumane at this point if they’ll just die the same way. I’ve tried treating with Aquarium Salt, Tetra Lifeguard, API General Cure, API Erythromycin, API Fin and Body Cure, and API Super Ick Cure. The only disease I’ve heard of causing red marks was bacterial/viral hemorrhagic septicemia, but photos online don’t look exactly like mine. Stocking and Parameters: 20-gallon long with 4 amano shrimp, 10 neon tetras, and (formerly) 2-4 guppies. Some pest snails. Ammonia: 0.25 (it’s never been 0 even after large water changes, so I think it’s a false positive.) My tap water also tests 0.25. Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 0 (tank is moderately planted, pictured) PH: 7.5 -
He was moved to my 5-gallon hospital tank today. I'm treating him with 2 T aquarium salt and API Fin & Body Cure because that's what I have. I have been doing some research and I can't get my hands on some of these products quickly. I have to ship them in. What is this about putting the antibiotics in a food mixture? And Sulfa drugs in a bath? I don't want to kill this little dude but these ideas are new to me. Here is a website that tells me to put the antibiotic in a food mixture and give him sulfa baths. Do any of you know if this information is legit? https://aquariumscience.org/index.php/10-3-6-red-blotches/ Will a Methylene Blue in the form of a dip help? I have that in my arsenal. Please someone help me save him and I have to also deal with my heavily planted community tank which he was transferred from. -
Hello everyone, New to the forum, and getting back into fish keeping and planted aquariums after ~20 years off. I’m seeing something with some Glofish tetras (black skirt tetras) that I haven’t seen before and can’t find anything online about other than one or two other people having it. I’ve had three from a local fish store exhibit an orange “forehead” or between the eyes. After some initial stressed behavior they have acclimated to the tank and seem happy and healthy (though I have wondered about too small a number, hence this next part about getting more to build more of a school). I chalked the strange discoloration up to unknown but harmless reasons. See the attached picture, the orange spot is most pronounced with the light blue fish coloration. I recently bought some more from the local Petco. They weren’t in the best of shape to start out (bellies seemed a bit sunken, all were small), but I figured it would be fine. All three died in the quarantine tank within days of coming home, and had the between the eyes orange coloration show up. But it was also much worse, and seemed more like bruising or red discoloration as well. I have been speculating and researching as to possible causes, and want some of your ideas. I don’t expect that a disease would act that quickly, but who knows? I wonder if it could be shock because of high pH or GH. I have pretty hard water and have been working to bring it down by using distilled whenever I change water, and just noticed that some reference sites show black skirt tetras as preferring a somewhat acidic pH. I didn’t think to test the water from the fish store before mixing in some as part of the acclimation process, so perhaps the swing was too great? I have pictures of the dead fish for comparison as well, but leaving it off for now. Other fish were added at the same time as the initial tetras, and none of them have any of the same symptoms. Some worked through some ick; interestingly the tetras were the only ones never showing any signs of ick. All are happy now. Water parameters: temp: 76 F pH: ~8.2-8.4, now down to 7.8-8 GH: 180 ppm, now down to 120 KH: 150 ppm, now down to 80 ammonia, nitrite: 0 nitrate: ~20 ppm -
It’s near impossible to tell in his body, but I am noticing red on his tail fin where the is thinner. Is this septicemia? Or is it a trick of the light? Water params were all good when I checked them a few days ago. I will do a check again and update as soon as there is no one in my house delivering drywall. 😬
