Dear TropicalFishKeepers,
I would be happy to recieve any help/ideas you might have, since we are at loss, what kind of problems our platies (our first home-bred!
) are having.
1. Tank
We keep 3 Mickey Mouse/Sunrise hybrid platies, 4 blue platies and one algae eating catfish(?) and one spotted (?) catfish in a 40 liter (11gallons). The water is cycled, thankfully very low nitrates and no nitrites in sight. Water quality info:
2. Water level
Nitrate: 25mg/l
Nitrite: 0 mg/l
GH: 16d
KH: 3d
pH:6.8
Chloride: 0.8
3. Water temp: 28 Celsius
4. Food: Frozen bloodworms (every other day), dry food (every other day)
All Mickey Mouse/Sunrise platies show the same symptoms: weird whitish stuff on their noses, in relatively thin layer, as if their color is fading. Their situation has been like this for about two monthes and they don't seem to get any better, although sometimes the symptoms are gone completely, sometime they become stronger and it's clear that there is something whitish on their noses. We already lost one platy about a month ago when we attempted to quarantine it and probably overdosed the medication...
We are at complete loss what it may be, since we haven't found any pictures remotely even similar to what we have, although we are guessing that it is some kind of funghus/bacterial infection. The sick platies otherwise are behaving well and eating regularly, so no problem with that.
We were hoping the infection will go away on its own, but last week it has gotten worse, so we changed the water (50%) Sunday night and now have also now put a dose of TetraMedica FungiStop in the tank, to deal with the infection that we have.
Has anyone had experience with such a disease? What is it? We finally managed to take a picture of the fast little ones, so maybe the picture will help to identify things.
I would be really sad to loose these platies, since they were already born in our tank and they even managed a 36 hour move in a jar when they were just 2-3 monthes old, so they're real fighters!
Thanks so much for any help anyone might have,
Zsofia
I would be happy to recieve any help/ideas you might have, since we are at loss, what kind of problems our platies (our first home-bred!
1. Tank
We keep 3 Mickey Mouse/Sunrise hybrid platies, 4 blue platies and one algae eating catfish(?) and one spotted (?) catfish in a 40 liter (11gallons). The water is cycled, thankfully very low nitrates and no nitrites in sight. Water quality info:
2. Water level
Nitrate: 25mg/l
Nitrite: 0 mg/l
GH: 16d
KH: 3d
pH:6.8
Chloride: 0.8
3. Water temp: 28 Celsius
4. Food: Frozen bloodworms (every other day), dry food (every other day)
All Mickey Mouse/Sunrise platies show the same symptoms: weird whitish stuff on their noses, in relatively thin layer, as if their color is fading. Their situation has been like this for about two monthes and they don't seem to get any better, although sometimes the symptoms are gone completely, sometime they become stronger and it's clear that there is something whitish on their noses. We already lost one platy about a month ago when we attempted to quarantine it and probably overdosed the medication...
We are at complete loss what it may be, since we haven't found any pictures remotely even similar to what we have, although we are guessing that it is some kind of funghus/bacterial infection. The sick platies otherwise are behaving well and eating regularly, so no problem with that.
We were hoping the infection will go away on its own, but last week it has gotten worse, so we changed the water (50%) Sunday night and now have also now put a dose of TetraMedica FungiStop in the tank, to deal with the infection that we have.
Has anyone had experience with such a disease? What is it? We finally managed to take a picture of the fast little ones, so maybe the picture will help to identify things.
I would be really sad to loose these platies, since they were already born in our tank and they even managed a 36 hour move in a jar when they were just 2-3 monthes old, so they're real fighters!
Thanks so much for any help anyone might have,
Zsofia
