Michigan Cichlid Association

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: DragonMungo on September 21, 2014, 12:56:49 AM

Title: Discus
Post by: DragonMungo on September 21, 2014, 12:56:49 AM

Hello everyone.  I had a discus and it was doing well in my tank but the other day i noticed 4 white spots on its head.  They looked like pimples or like a worm or something sticking out.  I was concerned so I looked it up and could not find anything like it.  I dosed with some antibiotics.  When I got up the next morning the spots were gone almost but above its eyes had a white area and the back of the gill slits had the same.  It was swimming around and seemed okay.  I had to go to work.  When i got home 13 hours later it was dead.  All the white was gone and where the spots were was a pink/red color.  Any help with this would be wonderful.  None of my other fish seem to have any problem and my parameters were all great. 

Thanks

Title: Re: Discus
Post by: Marty on September 21, 2014, 01:16:08 AM

If the red area looked like road rash, I'd guess it was hemorrhagic septicemia.  It's not very easy to cure, and kills pretty quick.

Title: Re: Discus
Post by: DragonMungo on September 21, 2014, 01:27:08 AM

Not sure I took pics so that I could try and find out what it was.  I only had the discus for 3 months and I was nursing it back to health because when I got it it had been abused by another fish and its fins were messed up.  I could finally see that its fins were starting to look better.