RE: Sick rainbowfish advice

["Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@boeing.com>]

Steev,

Thanx....I will look into treating the fish for flukes.  I appreciate the help.

Clay

-----Original Message-----
From: steev ward [mailto:steevward@mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 11:10 PM
To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
Subject: Re: Sick rainbowfish advice


>I have treated my fish with various Ick meds and have seen very little change.
>My fish do have the clamped
>fin appearance as well, like you mention.

Clay-
     That fits well with my theory about yours being a skin fluke problem. The
fish can have clamped fins for quite a while before dying, water changes
aggravate the flukes, and Ich medication bothers the flukes but usually doesn't
kill them.

But of course african cichlids will shimmy like that if the water is wrong
somehow. Maybe you could get a skin-slime sample to someone with a microscope
and have them look for flukes.

Or you could try treating with Fluke Tabs.

Steev

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