[AquaticLife] Intestinal Disease Cure?
What you describe could be attributed to an intestinal protazoan disease; the darkening coloration and the swimming pattern. As Lenny says, it would be a good idea to quarantine this fish, protozoan diseases are highly infectious. A treatment (which I believe can be safely used in conjunction with the Melafix) is to use a copper medication. Personally I like Aquarisol. This is another less invasive treatment and will not harm your other fish or plants, though it will kill snails and other invertebrates.
(A protozoan intensive medication would be metronidazole, with about a 1% addition to the food and about 12 mg per liter added to the water. But I cannot say for sure that this is what your fish is dealing with.)
Good luck!
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 8:40 AM, giuseppesalvato wrote:
> I have a Pristella Maxillaris in distress showing a dark area in the > intestins at the bladder level. I always noticed a small dark area in > the same place in that fish, but now the dark area is bigger and the > fish tends to hide in a cave during the day, swimming in circles almost > horizontally. The Pristella doesn’t eat almost anything at this point. > When I turn the lights off it gets out of the cave and swims with the > other fish. > Is there any medicine you would recommend? > > Thanks, > Giuseppe > > >
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