RE: Sick rainbowfish advice

["Darcey Harding" <darceyh@drizzle.com>]

Thanks very much Steev.  I'll start dosing for ich this evening (and raise
the temp.)  Would it matter which kind of ich medication I use? I usually
use Methylene Blue.

I see no other problems aside from the rapid breathing and flared gills.
The sick fish appears to be doing better with the recently raised salt, but
the salt is only at 1 heaping tablespoon per five gallons at the moment, and
probably could be raised a bit as well.

Thanks again.


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Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 8:06 PM
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Subject: Re: Sick rainbowfish advice


Darcey,

It sounds like a gill problem, doesn't it? (Unless there are other symptoms
you are missing, like clamped fins or especially dark coloring, or bloat or
something.) In that case I would suspect a gill parasite, and since it has
come on rapidly after a flucuation in water chemistry (the nutrients) I
would guess it is a protozoan (such as Chilodonella or Costia - either of
these two could cause the symptoms Clay describes as well.).


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