bloodlucky
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Okay so in my old account which I lost I posted multiple threads regarding this disease, nobody could help, I thought it finally died out, but I'm almost positive it's still here.
Basically it was first in one platy that I got and it's stomach was oddly thinner than the other ones. I assumed it was nothing until I started seeing it become sluggish and staying at the top, and began to stop eating. Then it's stomach was almost paper thin like an angelfish, and then it died. Then it killed it's mate, about 5 more platys and then a juvenile one I was raising for a year since it's birth.
I assumed whatever it is, platys are the most vulnerable. I have neons and danios which don't seen to ever become hosts of whatever this disease is, but it did manage to kill off my Bolivian ram, it too had a caved in stomach and stopped eating.
Then it killed off two more platys after I assumed the disease was gone, so now I have no platys, a baby angelfish, a couple neons and a couple gold barbs all in a 40 gallon tank (fully cycled btw.)
I tried everything... Extra water changes, Aquarium salt, API parasite medications, CopperSafe, and medicated flakes for internal parasites, nothing is working as the infected host immediately rejects the medicated food anyway.
Whatever it is, it kills off a single host at a time and I'm pretty sure it's in one of my barbs as he is significantly smaller than the other ones, has a smaller stomach and seems to have swimming problems as well as accepting food.
So what should I do? I don't want to put him down as there could still be a cure, but he might die any day as I've seen this parasite kill my fish in merely a week. I have a 2.5 gallon empty tank with a filter, so I'm thinking about putting him there.
Basically it was first in one platy that I got and it's stomach was oddly thinner than the other ones. I assumed it was nothing until I started seeing it become sluggish and staying at the top, and began to stop eating. Then it's stomach was almost paper thin like an angelfish, and then it died. Then it killed it's mate, about 5 more platys and then a juvenile one I was raising for a year since it's birth.
I assumed whatever it is, platys are the most vulnerable. I have neons and danios which don't seen to ever become hosts of whatever this disease is, but it did manage to kill off my Bolivian ram, it too had a caved in stomach and stopped eating.
Then it killed off two more platys after I assumed the disease was gone, so now I have no platys, a baby angelfish, a couple neons and a couple gold barbs all in a 40 gallon tank (fully cycled btw.)
I tried everything... Extra water changes, Aquarium salt, API parasite medications, CopperSafe, and medicated flakes for internal parasites, nothing is working as the infected host immediately rejects the medicated food anyway.
Whatever it is, it kills off a single host at a time and I'm pretty sure it's in one of my barbs as he is significantly smaller than the other ones, has a smaller stomach and seems to have swimming problems as well as accepting food.
So what should I do? I don't want to put him down as there could still be a cure, but he might die any day as I've seen this parasite kill my fish in merely a week. I have a 2.5 gallon empty tank with a filter, so I'm thinking about putting him there.