Re: Problems

["Chris Jewell" <chris@jewell68.freeserve.co.uk>]

These problems all sound very familiar, almost identical to the problems
that claimed so many of my cichlids. (Thanks for all the help / replies on
that peoples!)

I also tried isolating and treatment with sterazin (ina  high oxygen
environment), again with no luck. All the fish infected appeared to exhibit
inflamed or discoloured gills, but with no visible parasites. I traced the
source of my problems back to one bad batch of fish, but touch wood ( very
big piece) I have been fre of this for nearly 3 weeks.

I have stoped the feeding of all externally purchased live food, not added /
moved any fish and isolated the tanks in terms of cleaning equipment.

Appears to have worked, but still dont know what / why caused this disease.

Thats an ionteresting comment about the changes in TDS etc Mike - my deaths
showed no relationship to water changes,a nd I'm pretty sure the hardness /
conductivity / pH in the tanks are pretty stable. Its always impossible to
tell what exactly was going on in the water, as my tanks are filled with
tapwater / R.O mix, thats remineralised and adjusted for pH to suit.

Ideas anybody?


----- Original Message -----
From: Liptrot, Pete <pete.liptrot@bolton.gov.uk>
To: <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:36 PM
Subject: Problems


> Hi everyone. I'm writing on behalf on Colin Gorton, who's having trouble
> getting connected.
> He's having some problems with his Cichlids and he's a bit worried.
> What is happening is that every so often one fish will, over the course of
> only 24 hours, stop feeding, go up to the top, start gasping and then die.
> These are remarkably similar to the problems that Chris (Jewell) was
asking
> about, except that these fish are going to the surface rather than sitting
> on the bottom.
> Thee are no prior symptoms that have been noticed, and there appears to be
> no pattern to this.
> It has occured with A. steindachneri, nijsseni and bitaeniata, in at least
8
> different aquaria. No other types of fish other than Cichlids appear to be
> affected.
> He only has a limited range of medications available to him.
> He is very worried, as it took a while to obtain some of these fish and so
> they represent quite an investment in time and effort by him.
> He has looked at a recently dead fish under a microscope, and he says
there
> was something on the gills that didn't look right, but he's not sure about
> what it was (he hasn't got access as big a library as he'd like).
> He has treated with Sterazin but no no apparent effect.
> Any ideas?
> Pete.
>
>
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