Well, this has been a bad week in my tank so far. First I posted about my barb whose nicked fin looked suspicious. Well, that cleared up on its own with extra water changes, but now my honey red gourami is looking under the weather.
He's grown very pale, weak, and listless. And, he looks slightly bloated (but no "pinecone" scales).
The stats in the main tank are ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 5 to 10, ph 7 to 7.5. The rest of the fish (so far!) are behaving normally, but I'm keeping my eyes on them.
I removed the gourami to QT, because I don't want to medicate the main tank. But even now that he's in QT, I don't know which med to use. Is it constipation? Internal bacterial infection? Just before putting him in QT, I saw him glance off several plants in my main tank, which made me wonder--parasite? But nothing new has gone in my tank since the 1st week of May (the otos, and they were quarantined).
But I did read that the parasites costia, chilodinella, trichodina, and gyrodactylus cause "cloudy" or "milky" skin. My fish is very pale--does this count as "milky"?
I just checked on him in QT--sitting on the bottom, kinda tilting to one side--not good, not good at all.
In March I lost his partner (they were purchased together) to the very same symptoms. And, like this time, the gourami went from seeming just fine to dead within a day. He, too, was pale and weak, but with no other visible symptoms, I didn't know how to medicate him.
I hear that these honey reds are injected with hormones to make them all males, which in turn shortens their lifespans. Maybe both my gouramis suffered/are suffering from this?
He's grown very pale, weak, and listless. And, he looks slightly bloated (but no "pinecone" scales).
The stats in the main tank are ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 5 to 10, ph 7 to 7.5. The rest of the fish (so far!) are behaving normally, but I'm keeping my eyes on them.
I removed the gourami to QT, because I don't want to medicate the main tank. But even now that he's in QT, I don't know which med to use. Is it constipation? Internal bacterial infection? Just before putting him in QT, I saw him glance off several plants in my main tank, which made me wonder--parasite? But nothing new has gone in my tank since the 1st week of May (the otos, and they were quarantined).
But I did read that the parasites costia, chilodinella, trichodina, and gyrodactylus cause "cloudy" or "milky" skin. My fish is very pale--does this count as "milky"?
I just checked on him in QT--sitting on the bottom, kinda tilting to one side--not good, not good at all.
In March I lost his partner (they were purchased together) to the very same symptoms. And, like this time, the gourami went from seeming just fine to dead within a day. He, too, was pale and weak, but with no other visible symptoms, I didn't know how to medicate him.
I hear that these honey reds are injected with hormones to make them all males, which in turn shortens their lifespans. Maybe both my gouramis suffered/are suffering from this?
It looks like bloat to me. What do you feed them?
. One barb's tail looked suspicious, and people here suggested fin rot, so I did some extra water changes. I changed between 10% and 15% every day for the past 3 days. The tail looks normal now. I never added any meds or any salt.