Hello everyone,
To start out here are my water paremeters for my two tanks. I consider them pretty good.
Ph: 7.8
Ammonia:0
Nitrites:0
Nitrates: 10 to 15 ppm
Looking for some advice on what I think may be a gill fluke issue. I bought some Haps online about 2 months ago and due to the size of the fish i wasn't able to quarantine in my 20 gal as I usually do with new fish. All was well until about half a month after I received the new fish I had one of my female juvenile OB peacocks randomly died. Then I had my 2.5" female fuscotaeniatus die about one week later. Both where gasping for air at the surface with no sign physical damage to their body then dead within a few hours of showing symptoms. Sort of reminded me of ammonia poisoning but when I check all the parameter where good. About a week after that I had my juvie female rostratus do the same thing and die. So I treated my whole 70 gallon female tank with general cure for 2 weeks. Now all appears well in that tank.
But last night in my 180 gallon tank one of my 5" adult female venustus was breathing heaving and died within a few hours. Now my other 6" venustus is starting to breathe hard so im gunna put her in my 20 gal with general cure but I dont think she will make it. Since I transferred some fish a while back I believe they may have carried the flukes over. I ordered prazi pro in order to treat the whole 220 gallon of tank plus sump. I watch my tanks often and move fish whenever I see one fish getting picked on so it's not due to to the females being bullied. It's only affected females and juvenile fish though which may just be random. Like I said there are zero indications of ich or anything else I can see on any fish. I notice them occasionally flashing on rocks as well which I figured is from the flukes.
Any advice on treatment or possibly another diagnosis of the issue is greatly appreciated. The cost to treat 220 gallons isn't going to be cheep so I want to try and make sure I have the right issue. Whatever is doing it is killing them rapidly. They appear healthy and active one day then decline quickly.
To start out here are my water paremeters for my two tanks. I consider them pretty good.
Ph: 7.8
Ammonia:0
Nitrites:0
Nitrates: 10 to 15 ppm
Looking for some advice on what I think may be a gill fluke issue. I bought some Haps online about 2 months ago and due to the size of the fish i wasn't able to quarantine in my 20 gal as I usually do with new fish. All was well until about half a month after I received the new fish I had one of my female juvenile OB peacocks randomly died. Then I had my 2.5" female fuscotaeniatus die about one week later. Both where gasping for air at the surface with no sign physical damage to their body then dead within a few hours of showing symptoms. Sort of reminded me of ammonia poisoning but when I check all the parameter where good. About a week after that I had my juvie female rostratus do the same thing and die. So I treated my whole 70 gallon female tank with general cure for 2 weeks. Now all appears well in that tank.
But last night in my 180 gallon tank one of my 5" adult female venustus was breathing heaving and died within a few hours. Now my other 6" venustus is starting to breathe hard so im gunna put her in my 20 gal with general cure but I dont think she will make it. Since I transferred some fish a while back I believe they may have carried the flukes over. I ordered prazi pro in order to treat the whole 220 gallon of tank plus sump. I watch my tanks often and move fish whenever I see one fish getting picked on so it's not due to to the females being bullied. It's only affected females and juvenile fish though which may just be random. Like I said there are zero indications of ich or anything else I can see on any fish. I notice them occasionally flashing on rocks as well which I figured is from the flukes.
Any advice on treatment or possibly another diagnosis of the issue is greatly appreciated. The cost to treat 220 gallons isn't going to be cheep so I want to try and make sure I have the right issue. Whatever is doing it is killing them rapidly. They appear healthy and active one day then decline quickly.
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