0morrokh

Whetto--could be TB, or could just be some sort of deformity. Can you tell me how he is acting and if he is showing any other symptoms? If you have a q tank, do a reverse quarintine...that is, move all healthy fish out of the main tank. If you don't have a q, them it would be a reeeally good idea to have one...

MSteel--I'm in MN. However, I think I know how I got TB--[bold]my Petsmart's Guppies carry TB[/bold]. I have been there several times in the past few weeks, and saw several Guppies dying of what was obviously TB. (only saw TB in Guppies, which makes me wonder if it has something to do with their supplier---in that case I have to ***strongly caution anyone from buying Guppies from Petsmart.***) Well, then I put it all together...I had fish from 3 different stores in my tank that was infected with TB, and the very first one to come down with symptoms and die was a female Guppy from Petsmart. I would consider her among the hardiest fish I had in the tank, so she must have been majorly exposed to the disease before I purchased her.

Starshine--thanks for the info. About that TB killer stuff, though, I would have to say that if it can kill all those germs then it could probably kill fish too...not sure if I would want to use something like that on an aquarium...just a thought.

ewolfe315

If the pooh is white long and stringy it's definetly Hex. What happens is the fish comes down with internal parasites and must be treated with Prazi- Pro for 3 days at minimum. If your fish have been sick for a long time the parasites turned into the disease Hex which can be treated with Metro*******,its a long name and is quite expensive. I had to use this on 3 of my Discus and only 1 survived and he still don't act the same. But the Prazi- Pro will force out the white stringy pooh(which is actually the fishes intestines) and then you must medicate with the Metro******** for up to 5 days, sometimes longer. *

It just so happens I bought them all together at the LFS and who knows how long they were infected. It's a very bad way for fish to go.

These are the symptoms mine had:

1. Hiding
2. Loss of appetite,in other words did not eat at all for weeks, they ate the 1st 2 weeks
3. Loss of color
4. Sluggish and hanging around near the top of the tank
5. Eyes became huge
6. weight loss with bellies sucked in
7. swimming sideways when they did swim,which was rarely before treatments began.
8. clamped fins

I just caught the disease when it was to late and if I knew it at the beginning, I most likely could have saved all of them,the 1 that survived is in the 120 gallon tank and only comes out occasionally.

I never had any fish that I know of that had TB but as you can see quite a few of the symptoms are quite the same. I got all the info on this from simplydiscus members and they helped me through the process of trying to save them.

Anymore every Discus I get goes into a QT before being added to 1 of the main tanks.

Hope this helps

John