Wassup with my Shiro?

freddy · 28-10-2011, 02:13 PM

Hi folks.

Got home today to find my Shiro on the pond floor, and lying slightly to one side. I took a scrape, and found nothing. Over the past few days I've noticed he's been a bit pink along the top of his body. He also now seems to have pink streaks along his side. The other thing is he has a white 'something' on both eyes. This might be normal, I just haven't noticed it before. It seems to be on the eyeballs themselves. Also, take a look at the gill covers, it almost looks like scars. The pics aint that great, but hopefully you can see what I mean. Oh yes, and my parameters are good, relatively.

Cheers...Freddy.

Gazfish · 28-10-2011, 03:06 PM

Hi Freddy,

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Oh yes, and my parameters are good, relatively

What are they and when did you last change some water ?

freddy · 28-10-2011, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Gazfish

Hi Freddy,

What are they and when did you last change some water ?

Hiya Gaz.

Ammonia is between 0 and 0.2, Nitrite is between 0 and 0.25. PH is around 8.0. I trickle change the water pretty much constantly, maybe around 20% a week?

Cheers...Freddy.

Davej · 28-10-2011, 08:26 PM

What temp are they at Freddy?

This is a relatively new addition?

All you can do for the time being is to keep an eye on things, so much easier saying this that doing it, but what you cant do is start shooting blind.

Are all the other fish symptom free?

Dave

freddy · 29-10-2011, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Davej

What temp are they at Freddy?

This is a relatively new addition?

All you can do for the time being is to keep an eye on things, so much easier saying this that doing it, but what you cant do is start shooting blind.

Are all the other fish symptom free?

Dave

Hiya Dave.

I guess I've had him for around 6 weeks? The other fish seem ok and the temp is around 12c.

Cheers...Freddy.

Limey · 29-10-2011, 04:48 PM

The pink... my best guess would be stress and looking at the extent its very stressed :/. The scarlike could just be thin skin letting skull show through? especially if a young fish.

If I am right and the fish is unhappy, paramaters ok and nothing on scrape then is there any way you could get this fish into a qt tank - prefeably covered and darkish let it have some hiding and warmth?

Caveat.... I am by NO means any kind of expert - these are just my thoughts to let others rule out or suggest a better reason/solution.

freddy · 29-10-2011, 05:16 PM

Hiya Dave.

Yeah, I thought stress too. Only one problem, I have no QT

Funny thing, after I netted him he seems relatively happy again, even feeding. I guess all I can do is sit it out, and hope for the best.

Cheers...Freddy.