Re: Problems

[David Sanchez <barbax2@yahoo.com>]

I am very sorry to hear about the problems your friend
is having. I am going to tackle this as a disease. We
need to establish whether we have a bacteria or
parasite. First I need as much information from you as
possable. pH, DH etc wild fish or domestic? What foods
have you been feeding? what were the last fish you
introduced? What was the last thing that happned to
the tank before the onset of this? Please describe in
detail the behavior of the fish. Are the darting?
hideing? do they eat? what do their feces look like?
how long has he had the fish before they died? what
was the last fish introduced before the problem
happned? what is your temperture? what kind of water
are you using ? where is it coming from? The more
details you give the more likely I will be able to
help you. The first step I would do is get the fish
into a quarantine tank. Bare bottom with some pvc
caves for hideing. Also a dark tank is best. Add about
a tablespoon of aquaruim salt per 10 gallons and give
them daily water changes. This is a safe prophalactic
that will reduce stress. Lets not add any medications
till we have an idea of what were dealing with here.

Dave Sanchez
--- "Liptrot, Pete" <pete.liptrot@bolton.gov.uk>
wrote:
> 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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