Help, fish disease ID...

darkfury18 · 09-05-2006, 03:08 AM

Hey guys, I need some help figuring out what is wrong with the fish in my tank. I've lost about 4 fish over the past month and a half, one at a time with the same symptoms. The first was an SAE, then an oto, a porkchop rasbora, and now a blue ram. They have all slowly stopped eating, got thinner and lose their color and slowly die. I have no idea what it is, but it's only killing one fish at a time... the only other type of fish i have in the tank are neons.... any idea what is going on? thanks for any help.

Mangala · 09-05-2006, 03:30 AM

I don't know, but that seems to be happening with my bettas... so far, I've lost three, and I've noticed a string-like thing hanging from their anus which doesn't look like a poopy... and right now I've got one I put in isolation with aquarium salt and bettafix and I actually *cringe* plucked the string-thing from her butt with a tweezers... it went crunch in the tweezers and didn't let go until she struggled to get away... I'm thinking she's got worms or something and I should get an anti-parasitic or something... But she's lasted so far longer than the other ones that I didn't think to get out of the tank right away and treat. I'll let you know if she survives another day... but I'm NOT putting her back in the tank until I feel she's better.

AnneRiceBowl · 09-05-2006, 03:37 AM

sounds like callamanus (spelling?) worms. If you can see the worms coming out of the anus, then it's too late to really do anything about it. The only thing that I have heard of curing it are goat and sheep antibiotics.

Pandora's Aquarium and go to "Roundworms". There is a pic of a female betta with them (really badly infected), and follow the links from there. Personally, I think it's best if you just euthanize the fish at this point.

Mangala, you did more harm than good. The worms attach themselves to the intestinal wall.

darkfury18 · 09-05-2006, 06:17 AM

I haven't noticed any white poop or anything unusually on their body.. they just seem to starve themselves to death

Mangala · 09-05-2006, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by AnneRiceBowl

sounds like callamanus (spelling?) worms. If you can see the worms coming out of the anus, then it's too late to really do anything about it. The only thing that I have heard of curing it are goat and sheep antibiotics.

Pandora's Aquarium and go to "Roundworms". There is a pic of a female betta with them (really badly infected), and follow the links from there. Personally, I think it's best if you just euthanize the fish at this point.

Mangala, you did more harm than good. The worms attach themselves to the intestinal wall.

*cry* I don't even have any idea how she could have gotten it. I feed them dry foods.... the only things that have tubifex worms in them are the algae wafers, and the bettas don't even like them... and they're dried and processed anyway... Oddly, though, she seems to be doing better after I pulled it out. 'course, I'm also major-salting/water changing her in one of those betta cups... *shrug* I'll keep y'all posted.

And I have NO idea where the heck I would get goat and sheep medications in the middle of the city.

Also, that site appears to be down, so I can't really check out the pictures... but I'll check tomorrow, maybe they're doing maintenance.

09-05-2006, 03:08 AM	#1 (permalink)
darkfury18 Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (14) Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 242	Help, fish disease ID... Hey guys, I need some help figuring out what is wrong with the fish in my tank. I've lost about 4 fish over the past month and a half, one at a time with the same symptoms. The first was an SAE, then an oto, a porkchop rasbora, and now a blue ram. They have all slowly stopped eating, got thinner and lose their color and slowly die. I have no idea what it is, but it's only killing one fish at a time... the only other type of fish i have in the tank are neons.... any idea what is going on? thanks for any help.

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09-05-2006, 03:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
Mangala Planted Tank Enthusiast (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1) Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 559	I don't know, but that seems to be happening with my bettas... so far, I've lost three, and I've noticed a string-like thing hanging from their anus which doesn't look like a poopy... and right now I've got one I put in isolation with aquarium salt and bettafix and I actually cringe plucked the string-thing from her butt with a tweezers... it went crunch in the tweezers and didn't let go until she struggled to get away... I'm thinking she's got worms or something and I should get an anti-parasitic or something... But she's lasted so far longer than the other ones that I didn't think to get out of the tank right away and treat. I'll let you know if she survives another day... but I'm NOT putting her back in the tank until I feel she's better.

09-05-2006, 03:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
AnneRiceBowl Banned (View User Tanks) PTrader: (9) Join Date: May 2006 Location: Bellevue, Nebraska Posts: 582	sounds like callamanus (spelling?) worms. If you can see the worms coming out of the anus, then it's too late to really do anything about it. The only thing that I have heard of curing it are goat and sheep antibiotics. Pandora's Aquarium and go to "Roundworms". There is a pic of a female betta with them (really badly infected), and follow the links from there. Personally, I think it's best if you just euthanize the fish at this point. Mangala, you did more harm than good. The worms attach themselves to the intestinal wall.

09-05-2006, 06:17 AM	#4 (permalink)
darkfury18 Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (14) Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 242	I haven't noticed any white poop or anything unusually on their body.. they just seem to starve themselves to death

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