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NO! It is back! Let me explain...
Awhile back, afew months after I started fish keeping (august 2010), I was faced with a huge problem. A strange diease no one on this forum was able to identify. It claimed the life of 5 Lemon Tetra, 2 Swordtails, and 1 Albino Corydoras. A diesase that I thought was destroyed months ago: dead with the fish...or so I thought.
It is back! Back again and this time I have more to lose! One of my Lemon Tetras (possibly one that I got last week, could be a mature one) is showing the same symtoms of this mysterious diesase. I am so upset because (s)he is in a QT with 5 other lemon tetra, 3 Albino Corydoras, 1 Bronze Corydoras, 1 Julii Corydoras, and a Ghost Shrimp. The total cost of all these fish from my LFS has been astronomical! $6 per corydoras, $3 for lemon tetras, and I bought the ghost shrimp as a feeder from walmart, not my LFS.
Now that you all know what I have at stake, let me explain the symtoms. I know a pic would be great, and I will try to get a picture up later. Anyway, it starts from the mouth -- a white color, sometimes has a pink sore -- and works its way up the top lip. The tetra will soon lose interest in food and will start to fade in color. After afew days (usually about 8), the fish will show symtoms of Swim Bladder Disorder. Then the tetra will suddenly die.
The alternative to this diesase looks like a cotton patch that is on the inside of the tetra. You can only see it with a light shined on it. The fuzz patch will get bigger until it grows and literally pokes out of the scales, grown literally from the inside out. All of the sudden, the tetra goes to somehwat healthy looking to floating dead at the top of the water. I have lost 2 tetra to this diease aslo. None of my tetra have this, but I would like to know what it is. I know I have a movie of the diesase from a past tetra that didn't survive it.
If you have any kind of guess for either diesase, please post it! Don't hesitate, even if you don't really think it is what you think it is. I will research it and find out. There is no dumb answer. Please guess away! All the fish in my QT depend on it!
Thanks guys!
small fry,
Awhile back, afew months after I started fish keeping (august 2010), I was faced with a huge problem. A strange diease no one on this forum was able to identify. It claimed the life of 5 Lemon Tetra, 2 Swordtails, and 1 Albino Corydoras. A diesase that I thought was destroyed months ago: dead with the fish...or so I thought.
It is back! Back again and this time I have more to lose! One of my Lemon Tetras (possibly one that I got last week, could be a mature one) is showing the same symtoms of this mysterious diesase. I am so upset because (s)he is in a QT with 5 other lemon tetra, 3 Albino Corydoras, 1 Bronze Corydoras, 1 Julii Corydoras, and a Ghost Shrimp. The total cost of all these fish from my LFS has been astronomical! $6 per corydoras, $3 for lemon tetras, and I bought the ghost shrimp as a feeder from walmart, not my LFS.
Now that you all know what I have at stake, let me explain the symtoms. I know a pic would be great, and I will try to get a picture up later. Anyway, it starts from the mouth -- a white color, sometimes has a pink sore -- and works its way up the top lip. The tetra will soon lose interest in food and will start to fade in color. After afew days (usually about 8), the fish will show symtoms of Swim Bladder Disorder. Then the tetra will suddenly die.
The alternative to this diesase looks like a cotton patch that is on the inside of the tetra. You can only see it with a light shined on it. The fuzz patch will get bigger until it grows and literally pokes out of the scales, grown literally from the inside out. All of the sudden, the tetra goes to somehwat healthy looking to floating dead at the top of the water. I have lost 2 tetra to this diease aslo. None of my tetra have this, but I would like to know what it is. I know I have a movie of the diesase from a past tetra that didn't survive it.
If you have any kind of guess for either diesase, please post it! Don't hesitate, even if you don't really think it is what you think it is. I will research it and find out. There is no dumb answer. Please guess away! All the fish in my QT depend on it!
Thanks guys!
small fry,