What's this look like?

[greg y]

Rest of the tank appears fine.
This guy labored breathing, unhinged open mouth. Flakey skin etc...

[greg y]

And here

[jcunningham0295]

Are they white spots?  Look like salt?  Hard to tell from the picture.

[greg y]

No, at first glance I thought ich but it doesn't look like salt more like dry peely skin.

[mibwb]

Check your water parameters first, if ok...then
Could be fungus but not generally with labored breathing but still can't be ruled out...
Sounds more like Chilodonella  symptoms fit....treat with salt....

[Ron]

Strikes me as fungus, but that is often a secondary condition unless it's just the result of poor water parameters.

[Regalblue]

If it's already having trouble breathing,  then DO NOT use salt.

I'm usually terrible at disease identification,  but it sounds like Columnaris to me.

[greg y]

I pulled him out of his tank and put in qt as soon as I noticed. Is it possible that the rest of my tank will be okay or is it only a matter of time :-(

I also pulled a rosy barb out of my other tank that had a bad eye. Everyone else looks fine, maybe he bumped it?

Maybe my water was just poor. I did a big wc as soon as I pulled them. It had been a few weeks since last water change but that's normal for my heavily planted tanks. There seems to be red particles in the water column that I haven't noticed before.

[mibwb]

If it's already having trouble breathing,  then DO NOT use salt.

I'm usually terrible at disease identification,  but it sounds like Columnaris to me.

If you think it's Fin Rot.....hopefully it's not..
If it is I hope you're sterilizing your nets. So you don't spread it to other tanks. Clean up the gravel and tank, equipment...do a water change....before any treatment...

[greg y]

Maybe I'm fooling myself but no one else in the tank looks sick, there's no gravel to clean, it's soil capped with sand like all my tanks.

I have them in the hospital tank and am treating with metro and focus. It seems to be helping

[greg y]

Boo.
I was doing a water change in my QT tank last night with my regular siphon hose, looked down and the poor congo tetra was stuck in the pipe. I shook and blew on the end to free him but he was doing somersaults after that.

This morning I found him dead jammed between the heater and glass.

:' -(

[mibwb]

Are all the fish doing well now?.....follow-up

[greg y]

The congo tetra died in the siphoning accident.
The rosy barb's eye is still a bit biffed but I think he's fine. His energy level etc... suggests that it's most likely from an injury. So I returned him to his barb school where they had to re figure the pecking order :-)

I also returned the blue acara that wasn't eating back to the blue acara group, she's eating now but is still a runt compared to the rest.

Another problem I had was the congo tetra tank has my group of Sterbai cory cats in it. One of the cories developed rub spots on his eye brows and nose and the congos might have had white lips, but that might have been my imagination.  Anyways I removed the plants and driftwood and vacuumed and sand of all plant debris. Then treated with seachem polyguard. Everyone seems to be well. Knock on wood.

[greg y]

At this point I really just need to keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best. I'll do a water change wed. morning and then I'm off to Brazil for three and a half weeks to visit family. I'm going to have my wife feeding all my tanks very little and hopefully the parameters will stay in the safe zone while I'm away.