Hi,
My girlfriend has a 120 Litre tank with apistogramma in it. 1 male 3 females and 2 females have become sick, one worse than the other. One has a curved spine sideways and is a little darker than normal she can't swim in open water anymore and just lay on the bottom, the other one has a curved spine downwards and also has less color but instead of blackish she is a little lighter than normal. But of them don't eat anymore and got sunken bellies over the last days and are gasping for air. Symptoms could say Fish TBS, but I am not sure yet because of some reasons and because it is supposed to be rare.
Those reasons are:
-They have been removed from the tank and the other fish (1 male apisto 1 female apisto, 2 dwarf gouramies and 3 loaches) are perfectly healthy. If FTBS is highly contagious why are they fine?
-I dont know how long it takes before FTBS shows signs / how long it takes to develop.
- One female also got a crooked mouth suddenly a few months back (thought this was from a fight or something, could it be FTBS or genes?)
- We recently added 2 dwarf gouramies from a locally well kwown aquarium pet store, so I need to know if they might have brougth a bacteria with them but for that I need to know how long FTBS takes to develop, and they are perfectly fine themself (breeding behavior and all)
- only 1 female of the 3 ever laid eggs (signs of genetic defficiency?) The one who laid eggs is still healthy
- I feed them bloodworm, flakes and an Frozen Shrimp/peas mix (a nutritional diet)
- tank was very dirty for a while (about 3 weeks) but that was 3 months ago.
So there are some indications of FTBS and some indications of genetic defficiency, while I am not sure about indications of nutritional defficiency or bad water quality.
If it is FTBS does it mean we have to start over again with the tank and disinfect everything?
I am sort of hoping it is genetic defficiency.
I need to know if there is anything left to do for the two females and what to do with the main tank.
Female that is lighter
http://imgur.com/6PWyuwG
Female that is crooked sideways and darkish
http://imgur.com/a/n8wE5
So much thanks for reading and helping!!
My girlfriend has a 120 Litre tank with apistogramma in it. 1 male 3 females and 2 females have become sick, one worse than the other. One has a curved spine sideways and is a little darker than normal she can't swim in open water anymore and just lay on the bottom, the other one has a curved spine downwards and also has less color but instead of blackish she is a little lighter than normal. But of them don't eat anymore and got sunken bellies over the last days and are gasping for air. Symptoms could say Fish TBS, but I am not sure yet because of some reasons and because it is supposed to be rare.
Those reasons are:
-They have been removed from the tank and the other fish (1 male apisto 1 female apisto, 2 dwarf gouramies and 3 loaches) are perfectly healthy. If FTBS is highly contagious why are they fine?
-I dont know how long it takes before FTBS shows signs / how long it takes to develop.
- One female also got a crooked mouth suddenly a few months back (thought this was from a fight or something, could it be FTBS or genes?)
- We recently added 2 dwarf gouramies from a locally well kwown aquarium pet store, so I need to know if they might have brougth a bacteria with them but for that I need to know how long FTBS takes to develop, and they are perfectly fine themself (breeding behavior and all)
- only 1 female of the 3 ever laid eggs (signs of genetic defficiency?) The one who laid eggs is still healthy
- I feed them bloodworm, flakes and an Frozen Shrimp/peas mix (a nutritional diet)
- tank was very dirty for a while (about 3 weeks) but that was 3 months ago.
So there are some indications of FTBS and some indications of genetic defficiency, while I am not sure about indications of nutritional defficiency or bad water quality.
If it is FTBS does it mean we have to start over again with the tank and disinfect everything?
I am sort of hoping it is genetic defficiency.
I need to know if there is anything left to do for the two females and what to do with the main tank.
Female that is lighter
http://imgur.com/6PWyuwG
Female that is crooked sideways and darkish
http://imgur.com/a/n8wE5
So much thanks for reading and helping!!