Disease

[dbo2212]

What are your thoughts on what some may call "skinny disease", wasting disease, TB, ect. What signs do most commonly see if your fish has any of the three? I have done my fair share of exploring the net trying to make some sense of it. What do you guys think? These are some symptoms that I've experienced in the past.

Sunken head near the temple

and/ or

Sunken Belly

If you guys have experienced this what did you use to treat it? Parasitic or bacterial?

Thanks

[Marty]

It's been my experience that once the sunken belly is noticeable with africans, I haven't been able to successfully bring them back to health.

[dbo2212]

What disease do you think causes the sunken belly? Do you isolate the fish and try and treat? In other words, is it contagious?

[Marty]

I honestly don't know.  You could try putting them in a different tank by themselves just to see if it's a case of them being the slowest fish in the tank. 

I did have that happen once where I had a Champsochromis caeruleus that had a hollow belly.  I removed him and put him in a separate tank and he recovered.  Unfortunately, when I put him back in the main tank, he got the hollow belly again, so he was probably the weakest/slowest fish in the tank.

[Ron]

Back in 2001/2002 I had a fish that I diagnosed as having tuberculosis. It was a C. euchilus I'd gotten and raised from ~2.5" up to ~5"+ by the time he was really starting to show he had a chronic issue. It was a roller coaster of him getting sick, showing symptoms or not wanting to eat, and trying to get him healthy again.

The cause is bacterial. I forget the name of the medicine that best helped him, but the company that made it went out of business a few years back anyways.

I did best putting him in a tank of his own to make sure he got enough to eat when he would eat. I typically handfed him pellets, soaking them first so they'd soften and squeezing the air out before dropping them right in front of him. He never did recover completely, but he lasted about 9 months once he was in his own tank, so about 1.5-2 years after the initial problems started.

[gmaschke]

It's been my experience that once the sunken belly is noticeable with africans, I haven't been able to successfully bring them back to health.

Unfortunately as of yet this has been my observation as well.  It seems to be much more common for me with vics then only vic females for me so far.   I had a Hap ahli that this happened to and because he wouldn't die I kept thinking I could save him.  It took almost a year and I never once saw him eat, though he must have at some point, before he finally died.

[dbo2212]

thanks guys

[SKISWETPETS]

Im pretty sure i have one, maybe two right now that are suffering from this sort of thing. The sunken belly that is. They are femal O.B. Peacock's. There still eating now, just not sure how long there gonna make it.. Hard to tell...

[WES]

After reading this thread I asked a friend of mine if he had any experience with this disease. He suggested feeding the fish new life spectrum "Thera  A"  to treat for possible internal parasites. Might be worth a shot.

[staples2485]

Has anyone ever had a fish still breed with this disease? I have some breeder females with that problem just wondering if they will ever hold again