goury
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Hello there! I've noticed that my rescue Blue GouramI (or opaline, or three-spot; there really isn't a consensus hah) has this pink indent on her left side. It looks like a serration, like if she scratched a decoration by darting too quickly. I doubt it was a bite because the only tank mates I have with her are danios, tetras, a sailfin plecostamus and a few ghost and amano shrimp. She didn't have it before I rescued or, or if she did I didn't notice.
This has been present for awhile, and it just showed up one day as if she were cut, not entirely bleeding but it looked fresh. I waited overnight seeing as I didn't have any sort of treatment to help, and later, it didn't look quite as gnarly and seemed to be healing itself, so for a couple of months I let it be. Now I'm looking at it and I'm just not sure if it is supposed to look the way it does. I don't now how scarring and scabbing works underwater for fish so maybe I'm overreacting but I don't want to be too careless about them because I don't wish for them to suffer. I suspect it's bacterial, and I have coppersafe and meth blue for treatments if it is so but I'm really hoping it's not.
The gouramI herself acts quite healthy and responsive. Color is fine. She's always darting to the glass whenever I walk by for mealtime, and right now she's playing in the airstone. She isn't very aggressive with the other fish and isn't very nippy. She mostly keep to herself, unless she gets to close to the pleco trying to eat his algae wafers, then she'll get a fin or too.
Some stats:
Tank is 32 gallons, a bit on the long side. I'm not sure what the exact build is but the filter is Aquatech, designed for the tank.
I have a few live plants; java fern, some unnamed one I can't recall the name of for my life, a marimo ball, and immature lilies. Also some good ole algae that my pleco can't get enough of. What isn't alive are my silk and plastic plants, and aquarium safe decorations.
Water levels, like ammonia nitrates etc., are normal. The water is on the hard side but where I live that's all I have to give them and I do rigorous treatments before putting in more water. I don't do water changes as often as I should (every two weeks or so) because I get quite busy with university but I'm working quite hard to amend that. Water is a bit cloudy right now because I just did a water change, and whenever I switch it out with the brand of filter I have, the water gets cloudy and settles after a week even with cloudy water treatment, so I leave it be.
Two months ago we did have an ich outbreak, not a single fish was devoid of white spots. I did lose a couple of fish from that (a tetra had swim bladder disease, from pet store, and a few danios), but I was able to treat it with meth blue before too many succumbed. I have had a few cases of fin rot, and only one fish passed from that but I suspect he brought it with him, since I had just got him from my pet store and he was the only one I couldn't save from fin rot. I didn't have a case of either disease before getting these new batches of fish. Both diseases were treated with meth blue; ich came back a few weeks later but I caught it very early and killed it off with meth blue again.
And some pictures! It's so hard getting clear one but luckily she wanted to model today. She did just eat so that's why she looks a bit big right now:
This has been present for awhile, and it just showed up one day as if she were cut, not entirely bleeding but it looked fresh. I waited overnight seeing as I didn't have any sort of treatment to help, and later, it didn't look quite as gnarly and seemed to be healing itself, so for a couple of months I let it be. Now I'm looking at it and I'm just not sure if it is supposed to look the way it does. I don't now how scarring and scabbing works underwater for fish so maybe I'm overreacting but I don't want to be too careless about them because I don't wish for them to suffer. I suspect it's bacterial, and I have coppersafe and meth blue for treatments if it is so but I'm really hoping it's not.
The gouramI herself acts quite healthy and responsive. Color is fine. She's always darting to the glass whenever I walk by for mealtime, and right now she's playing in the airstone. She isn't very aggressive with the other fish and isn't very nippy. She mostly keep to herself, unless she gets to close to the pleco trying to eat his algae wafers, then she'll get a fin or too.
Some stats:
Tank is 32 gallons, a bit on the long side. I'm not sure what the exact build is but the filter is Aquatech, designed for the tank.
I have a few live plants; java fern, some unnamed one I can't recall the name of for my life, a marimo ball, and immature lilies. Also some good ole algae that my pleco can't get enough of. What isn't alive are my silk and plastic plants, and aquarium safe decorations.
Water levels, like ammonia nitrates etc., are normal. The water is on the hard side but where I live that's all I have to give them and I do rigorous treatments before putting in more water. I don't do water changes as often as I should (every two weeks or so) because I get quite busy with university but I'm working quite hard to amend that. Water is a bit cloudy right now because I just did a water change, and whenever I switch it out with the brand of filter I have, the water gets cloudy and settles after a week even with cloudy water treatment, so I leave it be.
Two months ago we did have an ich outbreak, not a single fish was devoid of white spots. I did lose a couple of fish from that (a tetra had swim bladder disease, from pet store, and a few danios), but I was able to treat it with meth blue before too many succumbed. I have had a few cases of fin rot, and only one fish passed from that but I suspect he brought it with him, since I had just got him from my pet store and he was the only one I couldn't save from fin rot. I didn't have a case of either disease before getting these new batches of fish. Both diseases were treated with meth blue; ich came back a few weeks later but I caught it very early and killed it off with meth blue again.
And some pictures! It's so hard getting clear one but luckily she wanted to model today. She did just eat so that's why she looks a bit big right now:
