Hmmm...Try acriflavine. Give the fish 3-day break before you resume treatment. On that period, do water changes and keep salt there at a teaspoon per gallon dose.
Dying fish -- diagnosis? with pics
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All the surviving fish (8 of 15) seem normal so far. I haven't tried treating with anything else yet and won't bother as long as the fish stay asymptomatic, since if it was NTD it'd be a waste of time anyway.
I'll keep them in quarantine for another 3 weeks (4 weeks looking healthy in total), then put them in my other quarantine tank with a few other fish to make sure they're not carriers before I finally put them in the big tank.
I'll keep them in quarantine for another 3 weeks (4 weeks looking healthy in total), then put them in my other quarantine tank with a few other fish to make sure they're not carriers before I finally put them in the big tank.
Have had the fish looking healthy for 2 weeks now. I'm thinking the next thing to do is get a few more rosies and add them to the quarantine tank for a week or two to make sure my apparently healthy fish and/or filter aren't carriers, and if they do okay, I'll assume it's safe to put the fish and the cannister filter I'm running on the quarantine tank into my big tank.
Sound reasonable?
Sound reasonable?
Quarantine for four weeks. You will need to sterilize the equipments after quarantine is over just to be sure though.
Alright, I'll do that. What's the best way to sterilise equipment, and then ensure that whatever I used to sterilise is completely gone before I run it with fish again?
nm, googled it. The problem's going to be finding detergent-free bleach in this country.
Anyone tried using swimming pool chlorine?
Anyone tried using swimming pool chlorine?
Now I've got the survivors -- 7 rosy tetras and one bleeding heart -- in one quarantine tank, and I've picked up another 10 rosies which are in my other quarantine tank.
Assuming the disease was NTD or similar, what are the chances of the survivors being carriers now? Once they pass their four week quarantine, would it be safe to put them into the big tank, or should I put one or two quarantined rosies into their tank with them to make sure they don't get sick?
I'd hesitate to do that because I figure if anything's harbouring the disease it's more likely to be the filter, which I'll bleach before I hook it up to the big tank anyway. So if my survivors had the strongest immune systems, but I add a weak fish which gets sick from low levels of toxicity in the filter, I'm running the risk of creating a big reservoir of infection and getting my survivors sick again.
Assuming the disease was NTD or similar, what are the chances of the survivors being carriers now? Once they pass their four week quarantine, would it be safe to put them into the big tank, or should I put one or two quarantined rosies into their tank with them to make sure they don't get sick?
I'd hesitate to do that because I figure if anything's harbouring the disease it's more likely to be the filter, which I'll bleach before I hook it up to the big tank anyway. So if my survivors had the strongest immune systems, but I add a weak fish which gets sick from low levels of toxicity in the filter, I'm running the risk of creating a big reservoir of infection and getting my survivors sick again.
fungal infection, not sure what to do about it..... try cotten soaked in water, dip it in povidone iodine, take out the fish, put it on a wep towel and wipe it off. be gentle, and if it doesn't come off, bring them to a vet, and have them remove it.
