Internal and External Parasites - Simultaneous

TheLadyCrash · Apr 4, 2017

4FordFamily said:
This reminds me of my bout of velvet. Absolutely no external spots of any kind. Fish hid from light, lost color, breathed heavily, and deteriorated during quickly.

+1

Humblefish · Apr 5, 2017

president89 said:
One last question - a fellow breeder said he thought it could be a bacterial gill infection. I've never heard of this.

Just like with humans, fish can get an infection almost anywhere. You'd have to sacrifice one of your clowns (or wait for the next one to die), perform a necropsy, and take a gill scrape which could be scope ID'd. I can ID a parasite from a worm from a bacterium.

president89 · Apr 10, 2017

I've lost a couple juvies but the copper/nitrofuracin seems to have slowed things down. The two adult black ice are stressed, but it may because they are in a breeder box in the hospital tank. Their eyes look better than they did. Does copper stress fish? Their breathing is about the same. However they don't appear to be near death.....yet.

Humblefish · Apr 10, 2017

president89 said:
Does copper stress fish?

Most definitely, yes. Copper is a poison, pure & simple. It only works because most fish can survive longer in it than the parasites.

president89 · Apr 16, 2017

I removed the copper - kept up with nitrofuracin. The fish are fully recovered. going to continue until the 10th day. The system looks fine still. Total mystery.