Dead Discus

[welenofsky@comcast.net]

Hi:

Steev, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind doing an autospy on my dead Heckel 
discus. I have it in the frig, and can bring it to the meeting Tuesday night.

Susan 
> Susan-
> 
> Bear in mind that it may not actually be gill flukes you are dealing with. 
> The 
> clamped fins (when did that start?) might be indicative of something else.
> For instance: Chilodonella is a protozoan parasite that frequently affects 
> the 
> gills of discus (even wild discus) and also causes clamped fins. Prazi would 
> not 
> be effective for it; you would use a
> medication that works on Ich (and related protozoans - the ciliates). Of 
> course 
> you can try the Prazi first and see if that works but that will be a week 
> down 
> the road and it sounds like the discus are
> getting worse every day. So you may want to use an Ich medication between now 
> and the meeting to see if that helps.
> Biological filters bounce back better than discus.
> 
> 
> 
> Susan Welenofsky wrote:
> 
> >  They're brown most of the time, and their fins are clamping.
> >
> >
> 
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