So last night I came home from work and was right about to feed my rasboras . When all of a sudden one of them did a barrel roll, this obviously glued my head to the tank for the next hour. I panicked and started doing water changes, over the past 12 hours I have done 2-20% water changes. Through watch him I noticed he had a little bit of white on his lip and forehead, he was twitching acting like he was trying to shake something off, and he was breathing rapidly. I thought it was ich all the symptoms matched, other than the fact that it wasn't little white dots it was more of a wispy film. So I read that turning the temp up to 86 would help to stop/ get rid of it. So I slowly started increasing the temp to 86. When I woke up this morning he was acting the same. I left for the gym and while there read about Columnaris and how raising the tank temp would increase the bacterias effect. By the time I got home he was dead. But I also read that it spreads fast and the other two rasbora seem fine. This is what he looks like.
His gills were a bright reddish purple, and when I moved the gills to see inside there was a small amount of slim on them. After handling him for about 30 seconds his forehead detached from his body. This could just be do to him being small and delicate though but his bottom lip did seem to just wipe off. I have mystery snails and shrimp in this tank too so if I go med route it would need to be safe for them.
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His gills were a bright reddish purple, and when I moved the gills to see inside there was a small amount of slim on them. After handling him for about 30 seconds his forehead detached from his body. This could just be do to him being small and delicate though but his bottom lip did seem to just wipe off. I have mystery snails and shrimp in this tank too so if I go med route it would need to be safe for them.
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