The symptoms:
Dwarf Gourami has a thing below it's eye/next to it's mouth that it's had since February. It is a bump sometimes 1/8" big, underneath the skin as well as reddish with a white thing perodically sticking out. I have tried salt for several weeks, which may have improved it but never got rid of it, and this gourami was also in the tank when I tried one round of Tetracycline for the neon problems.
This fish eats very well, is very active, has great color.
http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1147/4181325/15046645/242195502.jpg
Sorry I can't get any more detail on this problem.
The neon tetras were bought in small batches and quarantined for 4-6 weeks each before being put in a newly bleach bombed and then fishlessly cycled tank.
They still developed strange whitish bumps sticking out of the end of their tails. Though it seems to get better and worse, one or two of them still have them. Sometimes I think they shimmy or shiver, but I am paranoid since I'm not sure I've ever seen normal behaviour in neons! They also eat very well, but sometimes I think they look bloated with the skinny part of their tails looking almost bent. (I wiped the tank before fearing I had lost half of my neons to NTD!)
http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1147/4181325/15046645/252886038.jpg
And this was the fish on a VERY good looking day! It is much worse again.
As mentioned, no response to the tetracycline antibiotic, though I only did the 5 day run.
I still have 3 neons of the original batch which were covered in white and grey patches and those small white bumps that only appear by the tail. (Not ich.) While 3 died or had to be put out due to loss of swimming control and eating... the other 3 look almost completely normal again. Arrghh... what is this strange disorder that keeps reappearing! The ones that died eventually got real skinny, fins all but disappeared, and eventually they were bent and struggling to swim and control their movement. (And one mysteriously died when it decided to get squeezed up behind my filter and between the glass, with less than a 1/4" space! Not sure if it was disease or accident related.)
12 gallon
Fishlessly cycled (now twice over!)
Temp is 76-78
7.2-7.4 pH
0 Ammonia, 0 NitrItes, 10-20 ppm NitrAtes
I am not sure, but I believe it is Moderate in gH, but low in kH. I think 40ppm but the test is difficult to tell.
1 Dwarf Gourami
7 Neon Tetras
3 Otos
Water is changed 50% by gravel vac, and replaced with a 2/3 mix of bottled spring water and my tap water. (After so many months of diseased but not dying fish, I decided to see if maybe there is something mysterious in my water, so I'm trying for less tap water and more pure water.)
In my previous efforts, I have tried, over a period of two months... salt, Melafix, Pimafix, Coppersafe, Maracyn, Maracyn II, garlic, daily fresh water changes, Formalin Green/Anti-Fungus, and now Tetracycline, and nothing I've tried has worked. It seems that after 3 months, the old neons got better on their own, in somewhat less than a stellar environment (it was supposed to be a temporary hospice arrangement that ended up in them living alot longer, but in a small bin with less than ideal filtration, no heater, and water changes every 10-14 days.)
This is a photo of what the old ones looked like when they were sick:
http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1147/4181325/15046645/227273554.jpg
Any input is appreciated.
Dwarf Gourami has a thing below it's eye/next to it's mouth that it's had since February. It is a bump sometimes 1/8" big, underneath the skin as well as reddish with a white thing perodically sticking out. I have tried salt for several weeks, which may have improved it but never got rid of it, and this gourami was also in the tank when I tried one round of Tetracycline for the neon problems.
This fish eats very well, is very active, has great color.
http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1147/4181325/15046645/242195502.jpg
Sorry I can't get any more detail on this problem.
The neon tetras were bought in small batches and quarantined for 4-6 weeks each before being put in a newly bleach bombed and then fishlessly cycled tank.
They still developed strange whitish bumps sticking out of the end of their tails. Though it seems to get better and worse, one or two of them still have them. Sometimes I think they shimmy or shiver, but I am paranoid since I'm not sure I've ever seen normal behaviour in neons! They also eat very well, but sometimes I think they look bloated with the skinny part of their tails looking almost bent. (I wiped the tank before fearing I had lost half of my neons to NTD!)
http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1147/4181325/15046645/252886038.jpg
And this was the fish on a VERY good looking day! It is much worse again.
As mentioned, no response to the tetracycline antibiotic, though I only did the 5 day run.
I still have 3 neons of the original batch which were covered in white and grey patches and those small white bumps that only appear by the tail. (Not ich.) While 3 died or had to be put out due to loss of swimming control and eating... the other 3 look almost completely normal again. Arrghh... what is this strange disorder that keeps reappearing! The ones that died eventually got real skinny, fins all but disappeared, and eventually they were bent and struggling to swim and control their movement. (And one mysteriously died when it decided to get squeezed up behind my filter and between the glass, with less than a 1/4" space! Not sure if it was disease or accident related.)
12 gallon
Fishlessly cycled (now twice over!)
Temp is 76-78
7.2-7.4 pH
0 Ammonia, 0 NitrItes, 10-20 ppm NitrAtes
I am not sure, but I believe it is Moderate in gH, but low in kH. I think 40ppm but the test is difficult to tell.
1 Dwarf Gourami
7 Neon Tetras
3 Otos
Water is changed 50% by gravel vac, and replaced with a 2/3 mix of bottled spring water and my tap water. (After so many months of diseased but not dying fish, I decided to see if maybe there is something mysterious in my water, so I'm trying for less tap water and more pure water.)
In my previous efforts, I have tried, over a period of two months... salt, Melafix, Pimafix, Coppersafe, Maracyn, Maracyn II, garlic, daily fresh water changes, Formalin Green/Anti-Fungus, and now Tetracycline, and nothing I've tried has worked. It seems that after 3 months, the old neons got better on their own, in somewhat less than a stellar environment (it was supposed to be a temporary hospice arrangement that ended up in them living alot longer, but in a small bin with less than ideal filtration, no heater, and water changes every 10-14 days.)
This is a photo of what the old ones looked like when they were sick:
http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1147/4181325/15046645/227273554.jpg
Any input is appreciated.
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