FishProfiles.com Message Forums

One of my danios, is kinda kurved slightly into a c-shape and he has a kind of a cut near his bottom fin. He also strugles to swim a bit when he swims slowly. He is staying near the surface, but can swim fast when the others chase him. He also has two salt size marks on top. Is this ich??

The fish sounds in a bad way, and I don't think he's going to make it, if the spot looks like grains of salt then he has white spot.

Well there isn't one big spot. There are just two little specs no bigger then a pencil tip (even smaller than that).
His mouth also opens and closes a lot, as if he was breathing heavily.

http://www.badmanstropicalfish.com/articles/article2.html

That's probably it. Well is it too late to medicate? And if not what medication would you recommend for a planted tank?

I think any whitespot treatment will kill the plants, just ask the lfs, good luck.

Now another fish appears to have a few tiny spots on him but he is still acting normally. This is gonna take over my tank isn't it . The only fish that have been thriving r my 2 pearl danios.

Yes, you will have to medicate or the fish will die if you don't act soon.

One more question. If ich isnt treated does the fish usually just fall to the bottom, and just lies there upside down? And does ich give the fish a curved shape? I'm 100% sure it is ich now and I just lost another fish. I would go to the pet store but everything is closed. So I must wait for tomorrow.

Ich does not cause curved fish. Ich is smallish white spots all over, or perhaps just a few. Treatment can be done in two ways, a proprietary treatment for ich, beware of Copper Salts in some medicines, they can kill your plants and fish such as loaches and corys. I have found the best medicine for ich to be Kent Marine RX-P. It is nontoxic to all fish, except invertebrates like snails and shrimp, and wont hurt your cycle. You treat for 13 days, 1 dose every 2nd day.
Another way to treat ich is with heat and salt. Purchase a box of Aquarium Salt. Raise the temp in your tank to 82 degrees over 1 days time. Add 1 tablespoon salt per ten gallons. Ich is a parasite that can only be killed in its free swimming stage, this is why the necessity to treat for a full 14 days or so.
Add melafix to help fis recuperate from the ich.

However, Your fish do not seem to be affected by ich. Perhaps the ich you are noticing is only a secondary problem. Ich is present in the aquarium at all times, and only ill or wounded fish, or stressed fish are susceptible. I would suspect a different disease. I would reccomend treating with a broad spectrum antibiotic such as Maracyn, or try treating with Melafix and Pimafix simultaneously.


Come Play Yahtzee With Me!
http://games.atari.com
Http://www.myleague.com/yahtgames

Well it seems to be all the symptoms of ich, the loss of appetite, rapid gill fluctuation (breathing heavily), isolation, the fish hung out near the surface (it died now). But if anything it had two white spots in total. Very small ones. Also the tail seemed to be droopy and the tail wasn't erect. It also had a cut near its fin which turned white, and I was wondering if it was fungus of some sort? Another fish in the tank seems perfectly normal but appears to have ich (he has the most white spots then the other two infected fish and has no other symptons like the other so far). I am going to get medications tomorrow, I would just like to know what could be recommened thats safe for plants.