This can be brought on by stress of moving, and a difference in the water qualities between the two tanks.
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laura65536;1324661; said:
Catfish when stressed will discolor. They may discolor during treatment also.
Columnaris, is what your fish appears to have. It's commonly known as body fungus. Search for this for treatment options.
thanks necro...upon searching it certainly isn't what I wanted to hear...I wonder what caused all of this...hopefully I caught it early enough that they can be helped, but from what I"m reading it'd a pretty fast moving disease and there isn't a whole lot of time for treatment, man I wish I hadn't put them in that pool, I"d have caught this a lot sooner....
they look a lot worse in person, it's hard to get it on camera, I'm not good at taking pics of healthy fish, let alone fuzzy fish...but thanks, I hope they fully recover too.
I'll be getting a good anti-bacterial med tomorrow, for right now they are only in with salt, melafix and pimafix, but they don't look very good...I've been staring at them for hours now and the paroon's gills are clamped, I think thats why they look like they are talking, the channels look better off than the paroons but they still don't look very good, and they have bloody spots on their fins and are also "breathing" very rapidly. I went ahead and turned the temp back down, and will continue to do so over the next few days, in hopes to slow this down long enough to cure it.
If anyone else has any experience with Columnaris and can give me any more info on it I'd appreciate it, I've been searching on google and have found a lot of info, but nothing very hopeful, it all says that it can wipe out your fish in a matter of days, and from the looks of it, they are a few days into it already...
If anyone else has any experience with Columnaris and can give me any more info on it I'd appreciate it, I've been searching on google and have found a lot of info, but nothing very hopeful, it all says that it can wipe out your fish in a matter of days, and from the looks of it, they are a few days into it already...
a little update...they still seem fine this morning, they still look aweful, but my larger paroon is getting some of his color back. I think this was ick to begin with, must have been stressed from moving them over and I just didn't catch it because I couldn't see it. They wouldn't eat last night, even though I hadn't fed them the day before and yesterday was thier day to eat, but they are still active (as active as they can be in a 55). I'm going to do another w/c tonight, pretty sure it'll be a daily thing until they get better since they are in such a small tank, but I'm thinking they just might pull out of it. Here's my question, it's obvious the little channel has ick, and I think thats what the white spots on the paroons started out as, but for ick you are suposed to turn teh heat up, for columnaris you're supposed to turn the temp down...so what should I do with the temp? It's at 75 right now. Right now they are in with just the salt and macaryn and macaryn 2, but last night I had added melafix/pimafix, so there might still be some of that in there, it only lasts for a day, so I doubt it's doing much good (if it ever does, I've never had very good luck with melafix or pimafix).
Ive recently moved some fish into a newish 125 and they have gotten whitespot and im treating them it could be the stress of moving.
I had that happen with my paroons. I had them in one tank and went to move them to a bigger one and after being in there for a few hours they would be white, and when I moved them back to the smaller tank after a few days they where back to normal. I just did some extra water changes.
