what makes you think they have velvet? I don't see it anywhere on them...should look like little white fuzzy patches, no?
I get you, but WHAT is the reason you 1st suspected any of these ailments...like, what made visually see and think it was velvet or flukes or w/e? These things can typically be seen with the naked eye
It started with not eating... After I put 2 silver dollars in my tank that ended up dying from who knows what only to go back to the pet store to return them and see the tank I bought them out of shut down and under observation where I say the most disturbing **** ever which was the same silver dollars I just seen a few days ago with giant cysts in its body and eyes missing and rotting... And my fish began flashing around and rubbing on everything in the tank... I thought it may be some mating thing but now after a week I'm getting worried... They still haven't eaten and they were extremely lathergic just laying on the bottom breathing weird and then the only time they came out and continue to do so is to dart and thrash off decorations.. Still not a bite to eat.. And they look like they have some kind of film over there body... Like grayish color
Hex is next. Why not provide these little tidbits in the beginnning if the thread.
ya, I agree with J jaws7777 , you guys shoulda made this like, the 1st post, not waited 2 days and 7 pages to tell everyone. I would have said "find out what they had at the pet store, take the Silver Dollars back, get your $$$ back , dose the JD tank with a remedy for whatever it is - you have to find out Parasite, Fungus or Bacteria before we can tell you what medicine to use. If it's early stage velvet or a crazy flesh-and-fin-eating disease every minute matters....there's stuff out there that LITERALLY will eat away at your fish and not just the fins .
Set up a quarantine tank for doing stuff like that....always put new fish in quarantine tank before introducing them to your prized beauties. Don't trust pet stores, and even if you do, they might not even know they have it. Easier and cheaper to cure diseases in smaller tank too. I can recommend mediicines all day, but they won't do anything unless we know what that tank in the LFS had. I would go there in person and start asking questions and don't leave until they give you answers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexamita
Now that we are getting more and more info, this is turning into the perfect example of a thread to warn people why they should be using quarantine tanks. (sorry its at your expense Lil g, but we all live and learn)
It is a good thread to show, how "not" to treat for an unknown disease.
Though raising the temp is a good idea if you are positive your tank has ich.
It is a bad idea if the problem is bacterial in nature, because many bacteria become more virulent the higher the temp goes (columnaris is a perfect example)
When I was a microbiologist, our incubators were set at @ 95'F, because it was one of the best temps to grow pathogens.
It is a good thread to show, how "not" to treat for an unknown disease.
Though raising the temp is a good idea if you are positive your tank has ich.
It is a bad idea if the problem is bacterial in nature, because many bacteria become more virulent the higher the temp goes (columnaris is a perfect example)
When I was a microbiologist, our incubators were set at @ 95'F, because it was one of the best temps to grow pathogens.
