Interesting find: Hemidoras morrisi

[SourAngelfish]

I am not too worried as my other fish look healthy, behave healthy, and my parameters are 0ppm amm. 0ppm nitrite, and 10ppm nitrate.

my assumption is that the infection took hold on these cryptic fish when I had raised the temperature and possibly added more stress with medication + their territorial disputes adding even more to this stress. I probably didn’t notice as I hardly see these fish but once a month as is with how cryptic they are.

considering how my other fish are behaving, I’d assume they will be fine, but am going to do a round of the kanamycin regardless.

Thank you all for the help and I will provide further updates here.

 

[SourAngelfish]

Also apologies for hijacking my own hemidoras thread. To get things back on track here is some H. stuebelii Jeff Rapps posted on instagram recently.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

I hope you are right. I'd not hurry but maybe you feel you've done enough reading for starters. Kanamycin is a great wide spectrum antibiotic, a staple in the aquarium trade.

Just knowing and testing for NH3, NO2, and NO3 is not enough. pH must be within normal range and stable. Hardness, TDS, and temp must be within range for the fish. DO must be appropriate (usually don't need to measure with plenty of stirring in a tank albeit it is good to know in ppm).

On not being able to see the fish... to many peers keeping fish like that is fine, to me it's borderline a waste of time and effort - you don't see your pet, don't know how well it feeds, looks, if it is healthy or ill, if it fought or not, what's its mood, etc. I must see our fish every time I come to any tank. All of them. Always. Sure there are cons. Like everything in life, no perfect solutions but only tradeoffs.

For hiders, there are several ways to arrange a hide and still see a fish, e.g. pipes facing the front glass, or flat rocks leaning against the front glass, or not too dense and thick driftwood, sticks, etc. which cannot hide the fish completely out of sight.

 

[SourAngelfish]

Eventually after two more catfish losses, concluded that I did indeed have a gill eating bacteria. Did a full month treatment of kanamycin, metro, and finishing up praziquantel now to cover all of my basis. This is my sign to quarantine all fish from here on out.