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Re: Problems
This sounds exactly like the disease that emptied all my dwarf cichlid tanks
(10 with about 30 adult apistos of 6 species and some 200 fry) a year ago.
The infection spread rapidly in 10 tanks beginning in a tank with 3 week
freeswimming Cruzi fry. During the following 2 weeks it killed all cichlids
in my fishroom. After consulting with a veterenarian i treated with
antibiotics (erythromysin) which stopped the infection to the extent that
the fish did not die quickly but enough damage to the gills had been done
and they stopped eating and died during the next couple of weeks.
Disecting the dead fish showed inflamed or otherwise badly affected gills
but no other obvious damage.
The only survivors were, surpricingly, 3 fry from the Cruzi batch. I found
them about 2 months later when I was to clean out the last of my tannks.
Apparently they had survived in one inch deep very nasty water without any
filtration, light or anything since I was sure they were all dead.
I have only recently started to put water and fish back in my fishroom - it
kind of took the inspiration away for ahwile...
/Fredrik Nilsson
From: "Chris Jewell" <chris@jewell68.freeserve.co.uk>
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
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