- Have you tested your water?
- Yes
- If yes, what is your ammonia?
- 0
- If yes, what is your nitrite?
- 0
- If yes, what is your nitrate?
- 5-10
- If I did not test my water...
- ...I recognize that I will likely be asked to do a test, and that water tests are critical for solving freshwater health problems.
- Do you do water changes?
- Yes
- What percentage of water do you change?
- 71-80%
- How frequently do you change your water?
- Every week
- If I do not change my water...
- ...I recognize that I will likely be recommended to do a water change, and water changes are critical for preventing future freshwater health problems.
I had mentioned this fish in my threads with my other issues. This was an ongoing issue that I was gonna post about at some point but then the issues in the three other threads appeared
I just wanted to post to see if I should try anything else or if it is just digestive problems/damage that can't be fixed.
Basically, it looked like she had a prolapse as I wrote about in this thread last year:
www.monsterfishkeepers.com
She was in an isolation tank for several months until I moved her back late last year. It was only then that I noticed she was much smaller than the other females. She's like half the size and obviously really undernourished.
I thought maybe I had just not been feeding her enough so I tried feeding more. I think that might have been what cause a swim bladder with another female about two months ago.
Treatments in the past:
She recently had the Hex shield treatment along with the other rainbowfish in the tank (7 total including her).
About two weeks ago, I fed them Epson soaked foods as described in RD's thread.
When I first got these fish, like all the new fish I've gotten, they went through lemaisole treatment twice with a spacing of two weeks. They also had general cure (two doses). I got these fish two Thanksgivings ago (so 2018 Thanksgiving).
I'm thinking that she probably just has a damaged digestive system but I wanted to run this by people here. Was wondering if I should consider a lemaisole treatment again or anything else in the future just in case there were any internal parasites that were missed when I did the internal parasites prevention treatments initially?
I'm thinking that it may not be worth it as it seems unlikely any internal parasites would have evaded the unital treatment and they just got Epson salt and hex shield recently.
Also wouldn't the other fish have symptoms at this point? One other female had swim bladder (Epson salt and kanaplex didn't fix it so she just swims diagonally but otherwise seems fine). She developed this when I decided to try heavy feeding a few months ago. (I think the other fish just lugged out and it didn't help this fish. I now feed some repashy powder with the regular pellets so she is sure to get some food).
I just would like some feedback. If I saw someone post this fish I would immediately think "skinny disease"/internal parasites.
No long strongly clear poop either. I'm wondering if her intestines could have been damaged by rummynose picking at it before I was able to move her (there's a pic in the link thread showing a rummynose about to pick at it).
I just wanted to post to see if I should try anything else or if it is just digestive problems/damage that can't be fixed.
Basically, it looked like she had a prolapse as I wrote about in this thread last year:
prolapse: switching from salt treatment to Epson salt
I believe this is a prolapse problem. I started this thread yesterday because I thought I saw a white spot on a fish. Whatever it was, it showed up in pics but disappeared. I treated with salt and today I saw a Praecox Female developed a prolapse. I searched some threads and it seems the...
www.monsterfishkeepers.com
She was in an isolation tank for several months until I moved her back late last year. It was only then that I noticed she was much smaller than the other females. She's like half the size and obviously really undernourished.
I thought maybe I had just not been feeding her enough so I tried feeding more. I think that might have been what cause a swim bladder with another female about two months ago.
Treatments in the past:
She recently had the Hex shield treatment along with the other rainbowfish in the tank (7 total including her).
About two weeks ago, I fed them Epson soaked foods as described in RD's thread.
When I first got these fish, like all the new fish I've gotten, they went through lemaisole treatment twice with a spacing of two weeks. They also had general cure (two doses). I got these fish two Thanksgivings ago (so 2018 Thanksgiving).
I'm thinking that she probably just has a damaged digestive system but I wanted to run this by people here. Was wondering if I should consider a lemaisole treatment again or anything else in the future just in case there were any internal parasites that were missed when I did the internal parasites prevention treatments initially?
I'm thinking that it may not be worth it as it seems unlikely any internal parasites would have evaded the unital treatment and they just got Epson salt and hex shield recently.
Also wouldn't the other fish have symptoms at this point? One other female had swim bladder (Epson salt and kanaplex didn't fix it so she just swims diagonally but otherwise seems fine). She developed this when I decided to try heavy feeding a few months ago. (I think the other fish just lugged out and it didn't help this fish. I now feed some repashy powder with the regular pellets so she is sure to get some food).
I just would like some feedback. If I saw someone post this fish I would immediately think "skinny disease"/internal parasites.
No long strongly clear poop either. I'm wondering if her intestines could have been damaged by rummynose picking at it before I was able to move her (there's a pic in the link thread showing a rummynose about to pick at it).
