Scratching Fish???

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Riv D

Riv D

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I have several different type of fish in a 210 gallon,
but only 1 type (Yellow/Lemon finned Barbs) seems to be scratching and loosing some scales due to the scratching.
Now, before I did anything drastic I thought it best to wait till I saw any visible parasites. So I waited, it's been over 3 weeks now and nothing.
The barbs are still scratching and the other fish are doing great.
WTF???
I'm not really sure what to do in this situation?
I want to give these fish some sort of relief.
So far, I've added salt and bumped up the temp a bit.
What to do next???
Any ideas what might be causing this???
 
Advice Anyone ???
If they continue to scratch it'll turn into a bacterial infection; and this I want to avoid.
 
BUMP !!

I am kind of having the same problem except its all my fish in the tank.
Im starting to think that it is from a net that i use. Last time it ended up being a fungus.

Advice anyone?!
I need help too.
Didnt want to start a whole new thread when there is already one on the subject.
 
*!@# it ! I'm throwing in copper, it's worked for me before.
The coppersafe box says 5ml/4 gal of water but IMO this is too much.
I do 5ml/20 gal. This will give you a copper reading of .15-.3 ppm of copper.
 
Did you rule out skin flukes? Look that one up. I am fairly certain it is skin flukes. Please be patient before you attempt any treatments which could prove fatal to your fish.
 
johnptc;2581130; said:
how often do they flash ( scratch) ???
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Daily,
and enough that some of their scales are missing and I can see white under the silver(scales).
Again, it's only the barbs that were scratching but I assume there's something
unwanted living in my tank. What's strange is that I haven't added any new fish in 4 months and I do weekly tank maintenance and have a UV.
After a week of copper they seem to be more calm and don't dart around as much.(hopefully it's not the copper killing them:()
 
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