Still no answers.

[Frank Castle]

Sorry.. I'm fairly new to all this and I love my fish very much... I don't want anything bad to happen to them and it sends me into a panic.... What's hex?

Aftter doing this stuff for 30 years, my advice to you is during situations like this don't panic....I know you are, you just said you are - stop, breathe, keep it cool, start researching. don't panic, knowledge is your best weapon.

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.

Hey Duane, what's the crazy flesh-eating disease that eats fish away down to nothing....it starts with the fins and then it gets worse, but even if you catch it and cure it, the fins and body parts never grow back? You had to have heard or seen it, right?

 

[Lil g]

Ok well seriously like how do I get an idea about what it is? My fish are going to die

 

[Frank Castle]

Ok well seriously like how do I get an idea about what it is? My fish are going to die

start by Googling "Aquarium Flesh-eating diseases"....I can only read so many articles at once.

If you want to do something NOW where other medicine can still be used later once you find out what it is, just add 1 tablespoon of SALT for every 5 gallons of water in your tank. Just plain old table salt.....then keep researching. Hit them books!!!

 

[Lil g]

What would make u think I have a flesh eating bacteria?

 

[Lil g]

My fish aren't showing any signs of damage to there body

 

[Frank Castle]

What would make u think I have a flesh eating bacteria?

My fish aren't showing any signs of damage to there body

You both post from this membership, right or just one of you? Read what you posted below here and should be reason enough to answer the 2 above posts, right? You guys answered your own questions before you asked them.

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

^^^^^Everything you just said here is why I think you might have flesh-eating bacteria, early-onset. You wanna wait and see or find out and treat it? Your fish, not mine. I can tell you're panicking still cuz you haven't re-read through posts yet to take it all in and re-evaluate the situation. They have a grey film now after buying the Silver Dollars that died, but you never had it before that, right? Same Silver Dollars that came from a NFS-tank now where they're missing appendages and eyes?

Why you still here? Go to pet shop. Get answers. Fix problem only after finding source of infection. No need to be sweet, they probably gonna lie anyway. Try starting off being nice, pull the manager aside and speak quietly in private, but if you don't get answers, make a fuss and don't leave until they tell you what you need to hear.

Isn't it already bad enough you gotta pay out of your pocket to treat THEIR sick fish that made your fish sick? bad business. don't let businesses bully you. stand up for yourself

 

[Lil g]

Yes I know u don't have to be mean... I'm just trying to understand what is happening... I'm on the fish hospital as we speak.. I would def believe it was a bacteria infection cuz of what I witnessed with the silver dollars but it doesn't make sense to me that they would be itching.. And there is a white/gray film on the fish right I'm not just crazy?

 

[Frank Castle]

Yes I know u don't have to be mean... I'm just trying to understand what is happening... I'm on the fish hospital as we speak.. I would def believe it was a bacteria infection cuz of what I witnessed with the silver dollars but it doesn't make sense to me that they would be itching.. And there is a white/gray film on the fish right I'm not just crazy?

lol not trying to be mean at all....I just don't know how else to explain it lol I'm sorry, don't take it the wrong way, I'm trying to help you prevent YOUR tank from looking like the one at the pet store the Silver Dollars came from. Why else would I still be awake at 9A.M. in this thread? I haven't gone to sleep yet lol...



....like since I woke up yesterday

try this one, it has pics:

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aquariumforum/showthread.php?t=7143

sadly this is how it works when you get a pathogen you never seen before, you just keep searching and searching sometimes for hours until you find your answer. LOL Welcome to my life

I'm with you, definitely saw a greyish film on the JDs......the flash on the rocks - rubbing their bodies, scales, fins......it itches them, regardless if it's parasitic, Fungal, bacterial, etc.....they flash/rub. it's irritating to them. It's to us the difference between Poison Ivy, a bee sting and a Mosquito bite - one is venom, one is bacteria, one is poisonous oils, but they all do the same thing - make you ITCH. Your JDs flashed/itched plenty of times in the videos

 

[Lil g]

And also a week ago there has a bunch of jelly looking stuff in my tank just laying all over the bottom

 

[Justin Holland]

Realistically, I can not say for sure. I can only go off whats being described. We are can only help so much, being that we are not right there in front of the tanks.