Emergency!! Fishes are dying please help.

[Ryzi]

Can you please help me with my zebra fish? They are dying with sane symptoms and the medication i use isnt helping and i asked many but nothing is working please help me
I have neon zebra fish one of them had passed away with the same symptoms
The symptoms are
Circling in the same spot for hours and even days
Scales looks like spikes from their body like they are going to fall off
Spots of red on the body ( i think it is blood)
I have started methylin blue and rock salt treatments but they seem ineffective what should i do? I had one fish die on me and two more are exhibiting same symptoms.

Please help me
If the issue is really serious and should start medication ASAP

 

[Tigeriii]

Check with a local vet on what to do also check ph,co2,water density,and water salinity if it is high change 15 to 20 % of the tank water and put some quick start bacteria solution in.

 

[Ryzi]

Check with a local vet on what to do also check ph,co2,water density,and water salinity if it is high change 15 to 20 % of the tank water and put some quick start bacteria solution in.

i changed that im my tank and started doing methyln blue medication but the other zebra fish in the tank seems fine and other fishes are also doing great

 

[Tigeriii]

Ok good make sure to find a vet

 

[Fishfur]

Can you please help me with my zebra fish? They are dying with sane symptoms and the medication i use isnt helping and i asked many but nothing is working please help me
I have neon zebra fish one of them had passed away with the same symptoms
The symptoms are
Circling in the same spot for hours and even days
Scales looks like spikes from their body like they are going to fall off
Spots of red on the body ( i think it is blood)
I have started methylin blue and rock salt treatments but they seem ineffective what should i do? I had one fish die on me and two more are exhibiting same symptoms.

Please help me
If the issue is really serious and should start medication ASAP

Welcome to Fishlore. Very sorry you’re having this problem.

Scales that stick out like an open pinecone are commonly associated with kidney failure which in turn is commonly due to infection with mycobacteria.

This condition is usually called dropsy though dropsy is not a disease of itself. Dropsy virtually never responds to treatment because no drug can reverse organ failure and to prevent that failure the infection would have had to be treated with appropriate antibiotics long, LONG before anyone could have known the infection existed.

The red spots could be septicaemia - a blood borne infection that is extremely difficult to treat effectively at the best of times and it isn’t treatable with concurrent kidney failure.

I am extremely sorry to say that there is nothing you can do to help these fish.

An aquatic vet is always a great idea IF you can find one and afford to consult the aquatic vet. They are few and far between and expensive.

Methylene blue is a very versatile medication but it can do nothing for organ failure nor a systemic infection.

Salt can’t cure either of the problems and given the lack of kidney function, it isn’t even going to help with osmoregulation as it usually would.

I don’t mean to sound unkind but if these were my fish I would humanely euthanize them so they don’t suffer a prolonged death.

It would be helpful if you filled out the emergency template because these health problems are associated with less than stellar husbandry and the can try to help you to prevent this from happening again.

 

[Ryzi]

Welcome to Fishlore. Very sorry you’re having this problem.

Scales that stick out like an open pinecone are commonly associated with kidney failure which in turn is commonly due to infection with mycobacteria.

The tank has a volume of 62L
I have had the fish tank for about 3-4 months now, it has a filter
and a heater 26 - 28 degree C.
It contains 3 platy, 4 neon zebra ( two of the fishes are having dropsy),glow widow tetra 4 with few planted live plants and floting plants, within 4-5 days water change, I change about 50 to 70 percent ( changes on how dirty the water is)

I cycled my tank, not sure about ammonia nitrate and nitrite (i used to use my friends equipment. Ph is 6.8 to 7
Feeding is once a day, 4-5 small pellets per feed, it is a high protein feed, I don’t use frozen or dried food.

2 days ago symptoms include circling in a certain area for hours, not active , scales look like they are about to peel off (pine cone)
and red spots through the body. This started with one fish dying having the same symptoms so isolated the fish and treated unfortunately couldn't save the fish.
Thinking it could be viral, fungal or bacterial infection I completely cleaned the tank twice and did a 100 percent water change. I started treatment with rock salt the condition seems worsening so i treated it with rock salt combined with methylene blue and the condition was still worsening

I have had the fish for about 3 months now and when I bought it it looked perfectly fine, this started with one fish about two weeks ago.

 

[AgeusBMXFishguy]

Can you please help me with my zebra fish? They are dying with sane symptoms and the medication i use isnt helping and i asked many but nothing is working please help me
I have neon zebra fish one of them had passed away with the same symptoms
The symptoms are
Circling in the same spot for hours and even days
Scales looks like spikes from their body like they are going to fall off
Spots of red on the body ( i think it is blood)
I have started methylin blue and rock salt treatments but they seem ineffective what should i do? I had one fish die on me and two more are exhibiting same symptoms.

Please help me
If the issue is really serious and should start medication ASAP

Like FishFur said, there is no single medication for this. I am currently going through fish TB in my tank, and there is no cure for it. Do you have another tank? I would recommend to quarantine any fish with symptoms. Don't buy any new fish until ~2 months without symptoms, if worst comes to worst, wait for all fish to live out their lives, then bleach and restart the tank. This is what I am doing with my tank, it is unfortunate, but I just hope that tank 2.0 is more successful.