Hello,
I have a Rummy Nose Tetra with two white worms on its face. I tried to get a photo but its just too quick for my camera. It seems unaffected by them, colour is good swimming and eating well. I have also, however, lost two Diamond Neon Tetra to some sort of wasting disease. I haven't tried to treat them as they looked quite far gone and I just couldn't identify the condition, I'm worried about another couple of Diamonds as they have lumpy bellies. I have 5 extremely fussy dwarf puffer fish which will only eat bloodworm. I have starved them for three days and they still wont except anything other than bloodworm. This means all of the other fish are eating a lot more bloodworm than I would normally feed and I'm not sure if this is contributing to my problems.
I have a 420 litre heavy planted tank with a massive turnover, a fluidized bed filter and a large external sponge filter and chlorine/chloramine and sediment cartidge filters on the inlet for water changes, Co2 fire extinguisher injection system and homemade led lights.
I don't know whether to try and dose the whole tank for the Rummy Nose, if it is round worm I can't seem to find much info of them, like whether they need to be treated in the first place, whether or not they are contagious etc. I can't tell if the tetra with the lumpy bellies are indicative of another worm problem but as far as I can tell you can't treat external and internal worms with the same drug anyway. The tank has been up and running for a couple of years, the fish have only been in a few months.
Any ideas about any of it would be greatly appreciated!
I have a Rummy Nose Tetra with two white worms on its face. I tried to get a photo but its just too quick for my camera. It seems unaffected by them, colour is good swimming and eating well. I have also, however, lost two Diamond Neon Tetra to some sort of wasting disease. I haven't tried to treat them as they looked quite far gone and I just couldn't identify the condition, I'm worried about another couple of Diamonds as they have lumpy bellies. I have 5 extremely fussy dwarf puffer fish which will only eat bloodworm. I have starved them for three days and they still wont except anything other than bloodworm. This means all of the other fish are eating a lot more bloodworm than I would normally feed and I'm not sure if this is contributing to my problems.
I have a 420 litre heavy planted tank with a massive turnover, a fluidized bed filter and a large external sponge filter and chlorine/chloramine and sediment cartidge filters on the inlet for water changes, Co2 fire extinguisher injection system and homemade led lights.
I don't know whether to try and dose the whole tank for the Rummy Nose, if it is round worm I can't seem to find much info of them, like whether they need to be treated in the first place, whether or not they are contagious etc. I can't tell if the tetra with the lumpy bellies are indicative of another worm problem but as far as I can tell you can't treat external and internal worms with the same drug anyway. The tank has been up and running for a couple of years, the fish have only been in a few months.
Any ideas about any of it would be greatly appreciated!