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A few of my fish have been dying off slowly, and first it was a white pimple that would turn into a sore. A few of my Angels died a now I just lost a pleco which I am going to post some pictures of.
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His belly has always been white, and but the other white areas are not normal. If it is the same disease, it looked different on the Angelfish. -
hmm not sure but a pimple that bursts sounds viral or parasitic75G Standard - High Light Planted Community Fish
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might be your water... causing stress on the fish... with produce bacterial infection of some sort... and bloom.. soon all have it... have you tried aquarium salt & epsom salt? aquarium treats most diseases and epsom salt does something i forgot... LOL... but both of those and monitering should heal your fish completely... also 20-50% water changes weekly to rid some of the bad water... hope this helps!!! =DD20L nano saltwater tank- (In Progress)
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"Aquarium" salt is useful for depleting pockets of cash. Epsom salt is good for raising TDS and will also act as a laxitive.
It sounds like you have an outbreak of a bacterial disease. In humans staph sometimes presents itself as a pimple, then an open sore when broken. I'd try lots of fresh clean water and one of the new Mardel antibiotics that treats gram positive and gram negative.
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My best guess would be it is [FONT=verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Columnaris, cause I am not seeing the cottony fuzz look with body fungus.[/FONT]
Epsom salt reduces swelling if they have sores.
I have only been changing my water once a week, which is plenty enough to keep the N02 and NO3 at a zero. I saw somewhere that increasing the water circulation would help, but angelfish don't really like a whole lot of current in the tank.
However I have taken out all the plants cause I have a really bad problem with black algae, and need to replace the substrate. This is just so frustrating having only a few fish left, and no plants. My tank just looks horrible.
I need to look into hiring someone that could tell me all the things wrong with my setup. It's just turned into a 2 year failed experiment.Comment
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It looks to me, in the pictures of the pleco, that the whiteness is just normal decomposition. Sometimes others in the tank will nibble on a dead fish, too, and it looks very similar.
So, I think the sores that you're describing are different. Where were they located? Do any of the fish in your tank have any sores now?"Millennium hand and shrimp!"Comment
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