We had a dwarf gourami and after treating the tank for ick he appeared with two large brown spots on his scales. One on his belly under his head and the other on his side. I did take pictures if anyone thinks they might have an idea but would need to see i can send them. He died the next morning and now i just had another fish (a Molly) die this morning and she too had a brown spot. Now my Angel fish is showing signs of it. Can anyone help before i loose all my fish!
2007-12-30 06:59:56 · 5 answers · asked by Mandi 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
We have been doing constant water changes in our tank this week because of the ick. We have a test kit and we have been testing everything and everything is normal as far and Ammonia Nitrate and PH.
2007-12-30 07:28:27 · update #1
Ok i checked my fish after being gone i'm down now to 3 fish. I beleive its chemical burn from the ick treatment i didnt over dose due to what it told me to put it but it must have still been too much for my fish. What at this point is the best steps to take?
2007-12-30 09:31:49 · update #2
It might help to see the photos. If you don't know how to post them through a photo-sharing website, contact me through the email link in my profile and I can help you.
If these spots are large (covering several scales), they may be the indication of a chemical burn, possibly from an overdose of the ich medication/salt. If you think this might be your problem, do a 50% water change to lower any medication dose in your tank, and add carbon to your filter to remove the rest if you have done this already.
ADDITION: I'd try another water change and add nothing but conditioner to remove chlorine/chloramine. If this was from tank chemicals, it's best to get the levels down. Even so, depending on if this was the cause, and how sensitive your fish were, and how long the exposure was, they may still not recover.
When you were treating fo ich, were you doing water changes while treating and adding the medication back to the water? If so, were you adding just the amount in the water that was removed, or the dose for the whole tank? (I ask, because this is what was happening with another user who emailed me about this problem with her fish - she didn't realize that she should have been adding just to make up for the amount of medication that was removed, and added the full dose each time.)
2007-12-30 07:21:07 · answer #1 · answered by copperhead 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only time I've seen fish have brown spots and then die was when I was in 8th grade. We had a tropical fish as a class pet, but the kid in charge of them had the tank set for 10 degrees too high. After a weekend the fish was all white (it used to be blue or green, I can't remember, but it wasn't white) and it was dead.
If your tank has a heater, then try turning it down a bit, but if not, then I can't exactly say what it is. I have also heard that averfeeding can cause problems like these. Maybe you could send me the pictures you took.
Good luck!
2007-12-30 15:13:16 · answer #2 · answered by Felicia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have any test results for ammonia and nitrite? Seriously - the minute you notice ANYTHING wrong with the fish - check the water quality! 90% of problems stem from ammonia and/or nitrite spikes.
To me, it could be one of 2 things -
1. Ammonia burns
2. Haemorraging - in which case, we have to find out WHY the fish are haemorraging.
2007-12-30 15:20:05 · answer #3 · answered by Lindsay 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sure do all of the following
put the sick fish in a seprate tank
clean the water
get new food
2007-12-30 15:09:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Black spot disease? It could be high ammonia levels, check them.
2007-12-30 15:25:38 · answer #5 · answered by cavyndish 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋