Electric blue acara sunken belly?

[mike3891]

So my EBA's all look like they have sunken belly however I am unfamiliar with the disease. They all also have their vents or butts or whatever they are sticking out all the time. They are pooping and it's red. I assume it's from their food being red. There's no white stringy poop anywhere that I can tell. I have an angel pair in there with the same thing too. Could it just be under feeding? I fed them more flakes than usual before work this morning and it looked like a poop bomb went off in there by time I got home from work. Any thoughts?

Additional info... there are two of them that have paired up and I have fry swimming around the parents right now.

 

[Rocksor]

So my EBA's all look like they have sunken belly however I am unfamiliar with the disease. They all also have their vents or butts or whatever they are sticking out all the time. They are pooping and it's red. I assume it's from their food being red. There's no white stringy poop anywhere that I can tell. I have an angel pair in there with the same thing too. Could it just be under feeding? I fed them more flakes than usual before work this morning and it looked like a poop bomb went off in there by time I got home from work. Any thoughts?

Additional info... there are two of them that have paired up and I have fry swimming around the parents right now.

I would try epsom salt treatment first.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/treating-hexamita-aka-spironucleus.523470/

Or they may have camallanus worms. Here's some info on symptoms treatment:

http://www.loaches.com/Members/shari2/levamisole-hydrochloride-1

If that doesn't work for camallanus worms and the worms are showing from their butts , you can try Febendazole in a feed. It's available on amazon.com and available as a dog dewormer as Safe-guard, and you can get it at Petsmart.

Read more: http://www.tropicalfishkeeping.com/...l-parasites-fenbendazole-19108/#ixzz3yeHGkHL9

 

[mike3891]

I would try epsom salt treatment first.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/treating-hexamita-aka-spironucleus.523470/

Or they may have camallanus worms. Here's some info on symptoms treatment:

http://www.loaches.com/Members/shari2/levamisole-hydrochloride-1

If that doesn't work for camallanus worms and the worms are showing from their butts , you can try Febendazole in a feed. It's available on amazon.com. It is available as a dog dewormer. The brand names in the US are Panacur and Safe-guard, and you can get it at Petsmart.

Read more: http://www.tropicalfishkeeping.com/...l-parasites-fenbendazole-19108/#ixzz3yeHGkHL9

I haven't noticed any worms or anything hanging from their butts though.

 

[mike3891]

Here's a month old video of them....

 

[Rocksor]

I haven't noticed any worms or anything hanging from their butts though.

If it's hanging from their butt, there's a 50/50 chance it will survive a camallanus infection. A swollen vent and concave belly are a couple of the early symptoms for worms. Of course, those could also be symptoms for something else other than worms.

I would try the epsom salt soaked pellets first, and maybe prazipro.

 

[Charney]

any recent pictures? prazi does not treat camallanus but Levamisole dose