6/29/2023 0 Comments Rare discus fish![]() Thus keeping your treasured discus free of parasites and intestinal worms, if treating once a month. This product can be also used as a monthly pick me up and is a very useful booster for successful, trouble free discus keeping. Then on day four redose again to kill the newly young hatching parasites that could have come from the eggs that were not killed with the first dose of treatment. It is best to carry out a 35% water change, and dose with the wormer plus. This internal parasite wormer will also kill flukes. This can be treated with a number of treatments and the newest one on the market that will do the job and has been recently passed by the new VMD laws is, wormer plus. If water quality proves to be right, it must be gill flukes ( proprietary ectoparasite ). If water parimeters are not correct, address water quality and keep up good water management. So first thing first, grab your test kits and test the water before pouring lots of chemicals in the tank. Possible diagnoses could be 1st, ammonia or nitrate poisoning. Because bacteria will stick to the sides of the aquarium, it is a good idea to clean, and wipe the inside of the tank to remove, or reduce this problem even if the glass looks clean.įirst one on the list is: Rapid Breathing (Poisoning or trematoes) Because adding any medication to the water, will reduce oxygen. In all cases make sure you have plenty of air stones in the water to help keep ORP up as high as possible. Firstly it will remove, or reduce the number of parasites, bacteria or pest etc, and also it will raise the ORP which will help greatly. This is because doing a water change will do two things to help. In ALL cases I always recommend doing as large a water change as you can get away with. But what do you do when something does go wrong? What can you do, and how do you decide which disease your discus has picked? I will go through the most common problems your discus can occur. I have said it before, but skimp on this, and your discus WILL let you know, believe me. So plenty of good water management is essential for trouble free discus keeping. This is why disease is controlled in the natural environment. They would not normally see this in the wild. So now we see how in a closed trapped system like a fish tank, how parasites and disease can build up and claim our treasured discus, or any other fish for that matter to disease. This is what happens in the home aquarium, and remember a glass tank is a small trapped pool of water. Mother Nature is cruel, but sometimes, these measures are necessary to ensure the survival of the species. Thus, ensuring only the strongest survive. Mother Nature kicks in with a disease to thin out the weakest, oldest or sick fish or else every fish in the trapped pool of water will die. Suddenly masses of discus and other fish are caught in much smaller pools of water or river systems. To explain simply, when the river levels in the wild drop at the end of the rainy season, so do the oxygen levels in the water. It’s as simple as that and is also Mother Nature working at her best. In practical terms, it is a measurement to oxidize contaminants. In some parts of the world, it is also known as Redox Potential. ORP stands for Oxidation-Reduction Potential. Firstly as long as discus are fed the correct diet, given plenty of water changes, have plenty of oxygen to keep ORP levels up, they should normally be healthy. So I have listed some medications to make up a home made discus first aid kit. Very often I get asked by worried discus keepers what medicines I would recommend keeping in, just in case their discus becomes ill and sick. How to make them better, and what first aid kit we can put together just in the advent that anything does goes wrong. ![]() So here we look at the most common illnesses that can upset our discus. Discus like any other living being can become sick and unwell.
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