I took in a betta from my work; a woman had surrendered him and another because she was moving. Said they were both healthy, she just couldn't take them with her. Yeah right: both of them had severe fin rot, clamped fins, and the one I took (a coworker took the other) was covered in velvet. After 2 weeks of aggressive treatments with malachite green, frequent water changes, blackouts, and 84°F water, he fully recovered and even changed color from green to blue. His tail will never be like a typical crowntail again, but he's healthy, active, and certainly not suffering from neglect anymore.
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Would love to give you an update! My guppy at 4:20/min with Dropsy is now healthy and cured! I was feeding to much brine shrimp! Followed these steps showen in the video and now he is a happy healthy fish! 😍🐟❤
Glad he’s ok! I love guppies and am planning on keeping and breeding a few in a 50-60 gallon tank, could you give me some tips on them? Like keeping a tank of only males? Would be really helpful, I commented and you can reply through that if it’s not possible to reply to this. Thanks! 🐠
you forgot the most dreaded disease of all - MTS. It spreads from fishkeeper to fishkeeper. There is no cure 😢. Seriously though - great video as always
I lost my betta a couple days ago, and I unfortunately had to learn a lot of hard lessons on illness and tank maintenance. Really helps having your channel to go to, now if I ever have a sick fish I'll know what to do right away. Thanks guys!
So happy you decided to educate yourself ♥️♥️♥️ we all make mistakes but it’s so important you learned from yours!!! I hope you’ve been successful since!
Two things I'd add is that many of the medications recommended will kill invertebrates like shrimp and snails. And not all medications are okay for loaches and some catfish--the so-called scale-less fish.
Thank you both for this video! I treat fin rot and swim bladder for bettas very simply. Hospital tank, aquarium salt, and daily water changes. Raising the temp to 82 degrees Fahrenheit and add Indian Almond Leaves help too.
I'm scared to use aquarium salt now. I was doing a treatment for my betta with suspected fin rot well he died this month due to the aquarium salt. I followed instructions from a person who claimed they knew what they were doing and that it would work to clear it. Now I have a cycled ten gallon tank that sits empty.
The best medication I have ever used for my fish is tea tree oil. Since using this I have had no problems in my tank. I use a little bit of it in every water change and now I finally have a happy healthy tank.
@@chriscasan from what I've read and my personal experience, most medications you find at the pet store won't cure columnarus. I had to euthanize 5 bettas I recently had shipped to me because the stress compromised their immune system.
My rope fish and bichir absolutely do not tolerate melafix/tea tree oil. I will never use it with them that’s for sure. Cichlids handled it just fine but my guys that hunt by smell just lost their minds, I felt so bad and thought I killed them. I did a water change immediately and all was well, but just a experience I thought I’d share.
I love your videos! It's so nice to sit and watch someone who is obsessed with fish and owns it lol I've been obsessed since I was a child. It would be really cool if you could do a video sometime on native North American fish, I am almost exclusively a native fish and reptile keeper and I'd be intrigued to see what you'd have to say on the subject!
I've actually never dealt with ich, even in my fish keeping days as a kid when I kept bettas in a gallon or less or dalmation mollies in a 10 gallon, and didn't know what cycling actually was... And I got all my fish from chain stores. A couple months ago, my new male betta developed cloudy eye though. I'd only had him for a few days and he'd been frantically glass surfing most of that time. I had a lava rock near one tank wall, so I think he may have scraped it. I vacuumed the tank and moved things around the day before it developed and he'd followed the vacuum around, so I think the eye became infected. I immediately dosed the tank with Paraguard and the next day he was already improving. I continued treating for a week even after he looked better and haven't had any more issues. I removed the lava rock, also. After he settled in, he stopped glass surfing. I'm not entirely sure if she had gill flukes, but one of my platies had been acting weird for a week already, so when I saw her suddenly start flashing, I decided to quit waiting for more signs of illness and treat the tank with General Cure. The next day, she was already improving, but I continued following the instructions to finish the treatment and she's been healthy ever since.
I saved my one betta from our local all in one grocery store...his cup had algae and was full of poop...he has cloudy eye from that cup, I've tried everything, but nothing helped...after having him for two months, his glow up is incredible!! A brand new betta 💙
My Australian Bass got cloudy eye I went through the tests and worked out that the PH was only 5.4 ,so after large water changes over the next few weeks and adding some coral rubble to the tank it seemed to fix it.
Hi my name is Julian. I am ten years old and I love your videos! I have learned so many great things from your videos. I have a ten gallon aquarium and a twenty nine. In my ten gallon I have 2 mollies, 3 guppies, 2 silver dollars and 3 snails. In my 29 gallon I have 1 red zebra cliched, 2 jack Daniel cliches, 2 catfish and 2 other ciclids. Keep the videos coming! (Also, I'm new to the hobby).
Hi! Really enjoy your videos. There was one that was funny as all get out. You were sitting in front of an aquarium of small fishes, which really looked like they were swimming in one ear, and out the other. Loved it!
I've actually had some success with separating fish with ich into a hospital tank without having to treat my whole tank. Have to catch it early and check every day for fish that may have been affected and move them over, but normally after three days I can't find any more fish with ich in the main tank.
I was wondering why my fish used to bounce off the bottom the tank and the decorations until I learned of ick well now it's cured but still pop's up at times great video love it
hello thanks for the video, I thought that my fish had bacterial fin rot and also some fungus growing on her and I've been trying to treat them separately and things weren't working. Thank goodness I ran into your video because it made me realize she had columnaris and I need to treat her differently. Do you have specific antibiotics that you recommend? or just any antibiotics will work?
This is a great video! there are thousands of videos out there but very few talk about aquarium diseases. If all fish are lost to disease in a tank, how safe is it to start adding new fish? does the tank need to be re-started? what about fish TB?
Stress. My 0skie recently started to sulk and avoid eating. I figured it was because i moved a piece of furniture near the left side of his tank. He was used to just seeing a white wall there, but now I guess he was shocked to see something different there...i hope he gets back to normal soon.
I had a pearl gourami who had a bad case of swim bladder and I lightened up on feeding and tried peas but nothing seemed to work, I switched to New Life Spectrum probiotix and it cleared up in a few days...it also helped me to curb some crazy algae growth in the tank
Idk if dropsy is different for goldfish but the info I researched for when my goldfish got dropsy is very different from this. Like Dropsy can't really be caught early cause as soon as the fish bloats up and pinecones up it often too late. But maybe it is just different for goldfish I'm not sure
As far as I know, dropsy is only a symptom of a desease so sometimes it can be cured. Dropsy can be caused by organ failure (most likely not treatable), which results in issues with osmosis regulation, leading to an accumulation of fluids in the body and under the scales (pineconing). If this is the case, the fish will most likely die but I also read about a case where the fish suddendly became healthy again (As far as I remember, they suspected s kidney stone). Constipation can also make the fish bloat (increasing the temperature and not feeding anything might help). Damage in the intestines (caused by an accident or internal parasites) that lead to inflammation could also be the cause for dropsy.
@@kiri23234 yea I defenetly read that. In the video it kinda just seemed like it wasn't that big of a deal when I often heared that dropsy is nearly always a death sentence
I used to have fancies and they would get swim bladder problems. The peas worked for me because the problem was caused by constipation and the peas helped things move along.
Great video !! Was hoping wasting away disease would be here, maybe the next few that you do. As for the peas (heard that many times also) if they aren't feeling good they won't eat . Lisa, you crack me up with your eekky face .
Did you even watch the beginning? John explained he doesn't have footage for every disease. Some people allowed him to use their personal footage but others aren't so kind.
This is the video i wanted to watch the least, cause i hate thinking about them getting sick, but probably the most important one. I feel like i'm way more prepared now!
Great video! I don't believe ich is in all environments. You can eradicate it from your ecosystem and not all fish come in with it, only some are the original host. I use Ruby Reef Kick Ich in combo with Ruby Reef Rally to eradicate it if seen.
Could you do a video on cold water aquariums? I have axolotls and am quite new to keeping aquariums PROPERLY, I’ve had fish before when I was younger but I now know they weren’t kept ideally and I like your channel :)
One of my Glo-Fish Tetras got swim-bladder illness, I believe... and let me tell you: It's strange looking at your tank one day and seeing one of your fish doing loop-de-loops!😯
@@ashleybenson8688 Well, the one that suffered from it is long-gone... I just kept it until it was having such difficulty swimming straight, it couldn't even fed itself properly. At that point it was time for the hardest part of pet keeping: A mercy killing. I'd didn't like that I had to do it, or how because of my budget and available materials, but I did it... and thankfully, it was over quickly.😔
One of my bettas died from dropsy, and I was sad when he died. My koi used to have Ich, but they recovered due to me giving them medicine every other day
That was my bolivian ram with Cloudy eye. Unfortunately it occured about 2 days after recieving him and i beleive it was due to aggression with another ram. After a week of trying to clear it up it only seemed to get worse. I inevitably returned it and the other to my lfs and i guess i wasnt the only one according to them.
Wow great video! I'm stocking my 1st aid kit now so that I have things on hand when needed. I just discovered we can't get over the counter pet Antibiotics here in Canada anymore. They have to come from a vet. I think even "General Cure" has been taken off the market here as well. Can you guys suggest alternatives to those?
The best anti bacterial medication I know is baktopur by sera. It contains methylen blue and acrivlavinium. It has never noticably harmed one of my fish (mostly corydoras) and worked in most cases. I always dose at least 120 up to 180 percent of the recommended dosage on three instead of two days because this was recommended to me. The medication should be protected from light and should be used in a newly set up hospital tank because it often does not work in established tanks. Additional aeration (air stone) is recommended too. You might not see any effect up untill the fifth day of treatment.
My little buddy started with ick I fixed him up but now he has fin rot and only had a stump on the end, he's a small comet and he hasn't grown but he's a tough dude, I've used aquarium salt and e. m erythromycin and he's been doing alot better, I recently went to petsmart and got pimafix also, he has grown most of his fin back and half of his body turned black but is now coming back to his original color, thanks to you guys and the product my buddy is going to live👍💛
Thanks for doing this video. I've got a female betta fish in a hospital tank with such bad swelling I couldn't work out if it was constipation or dropsy. I tried Esha 2000 first, and almond leaf with Epsom salt dip's and very small amounts of food. I'm now trying anti internal bacteria +, Epsom salt dips and some aquarium salt in the water, still only small amounts of food. I'm in the UK and there doesn't seem to be antibiotics for fish. my last hope is trying a pea. (lots of clean water of course) :(
Been keeping fish on and off for 13 years, never had ick until this past month, didnt realize what it was fast enough and it killed half my tank... sucked
Kyle Delaney this just happened to us. We went from 7 to 0 fish in less than 36 hours. We bought 2 new fish on Friday and by this afternoon everyone was dead. I’m very upset :(
Your videos are so helpful--- happy Blackwater newb here--- had my very first flare up of ick and your videos definitely helped me stay calm and properly take care of my pond puppies. Thank you so much for your easy to follow content!!
Wish I had found your channel sooner. My boyfriend’s fish just died and it had some severe columnaris and I didn’t even know what it was. Better late than never, but this was so helpful :)
I just wanted to let you know that dropsy is not always caused by bacteria. It's a symptom in fish where fluid is accumulating due to bacteria or kidney problems or it can be other things. I have a couple fish with this and I think I may have caused this so it's pretty upsetting. Thank you guys for the video on fish diseases, I've learned a lot about diseases I haven't seen yet so maybe I will be prepared if something happens 🙂
My female betta was suffering from fin rot.. and my local mom and pop fish store owner/employees gave me a few things to treat it.. but I have had good success with two full doses API’s Triple sulfa and a week’s worth of Melafix treatments. Water changes accompanying these treatments as instructed. My local fish guys say that fin rot is actually very easy to treat especially when caught early like most things.
Bottom line, almost 99.99 % of fish/aquarium diseases are related to poor water conditions which makes sense. keep on cleaning the tanks. Thx. for this great post.
my silver dollars and tiger shovel nose had bad ick recently. turned up the temp go 86, did a 30% water change and added aquarium salt and they made a full recovery in about 2 days.
Hi, and thank you for the important video. One question - All of the meds mentioned wouldn't harm the beneficial bacteria in the filter? How can I minimize that risk?
Help needed: I dove into the hobby, bought a 14 gallon tank, set it up (substrate, a plant, filter, decor, heater, let it run 5 days, got my water tested with A+ results, bought a bristlenose pleco, and then 2 tetras and a molly), and all seemed GREAT for over 2 weeks. Then all the sudden I noticed one of the tetras obviously showed signs of Ich. I raised the temp as much as possible, following the instructions of my pet shop, but within 24 hours all 4 fish had died. Talk about taking the wind out of your sails. So, what gives? I'm pretty discouraged and afraid the next fish I buy will suffer the same fate. What can I do differently?
Theres a part of my guppies that are turning iridescent.... Now i just got em so many they are brightening up... But its pretty weird..like random..could it be velvet?
I am on my third betta from Petco that is sick (I have had betta fish before, so not a new keeper). Got two with fin rot/body rot. Had to return them. Now I have one with popeye... I even bought a new tank! I do not want to keep returning fish because I know that they will probably just die. Trying the salt trick and will get antibiotics tomorrow! Fingers crossed this will work!
So here, i saw a dead cockroach in my 50gallon tank. I even saw a leg on my yellow lab and immediately took them out. I did a 30% waterchange, after a couple of days, my white tail acei got swim bladder, i took her out and put in a hospital tank with her scales deteriorating and does have mucus like shedding off of her and my rusty got bloated. Did the cockroach do anything to spoil my tank? Thank you and nice vids as always!
I had a platy that suffered from fin rot, fortunately I noticed and treated them, however they lost their fin as I noticed too late. They are happy and healthy now
10:48 - Im not sure if others have pointed this out, but API General Cure is 250mg Metronidazole and 75mg Praziquantel per packet. Sounds like thats why your have herd people having success with it... its the same drug just under a brand name and with Praziquantel as an additive. _(I was just dealing with treatment so have been reading all the boxes recently haha)_
I will say this video is about 3 years old and companies often change their formula without much advertisement... API could have very well changed the *General Cure* product to primarily include Metronidazole due it its effectiveness.
I know this is very late, but for my freshwater tanks that don't have salt sensitive/scaleless fish, I generally put in 1 teaspoon per 5 gallons. However, scaleless fish such as pea puffers and corydoras are much more sensitive to salt, and I wouldn't put any salt at all.
Salt doesn’t leave the water except for the residue from evaporation. Be careful when adding salt regularly. You would be better to measure the appropriate ratios for the amount of water being added and not re-dosing the whole tank.
im fairly new to, dealt with ich twice sucessfully , one case was really bad , at the moment found my greenphantom pleco looking a bit off found like a white wound by one of its fins and the corner of fin looking a bit crusty and white as well looks like rot
For the cloudy eye issue you mentioned in your video I did a water change and I noticed The next day one of my fish had cloudy eye I panicked like we all do looked online and somebody mentioned check your ph i checked my PH up and It crashed to around 6 I put ph in and within 8 hours I noticed the difference within 24 hours it was gone
I keep fancy goldfish, swim bladder is a thing that can occur easily especially in the more extremely shaped types. Fasting for 3 days, shelled peas, very clean water gives these fish the best chance. I have a black moor that will overeat if the others don’t get in to feed quickly enough! Tbh, I’ve also experienced fin rot and cloudy eye when I first got the fish and everything was cleared up with frequent water changes and getting a better feed being in a home setting. Must of caught it early enough but I’ve been lucky to not need any meds...I have them in stock but never had to use them yet! But my dudes, if you have goldfish and haven’t fed them shelled peas yet I am telling you to please try! Not only does it clear everything out but damn do they love them! I regularly feed shelled peas at least twice a week now and not had any issues for quite some time!
I introduced a new Catfish without treating. Four days later...all my neons were dead. The cat had ich. The employee literally chased him around the tank with 2 nets for literally 10 min. Maybe that was the cause. Every treatment I could find (including salt) said not to use on scale less fish such as cats and I didn't have an adjustable heater.
My fish had cloudy eye coming home when it was in the store but I didn't notice. I realized at home but didn't think much of it. It cleared away with clean water, a healthy diet and a stress-free environment. Thank god it was in its early stages
I think I have columnaris in my tank 😖 I don't believe it's my fault, I love my fish and take care of them well. I made the mistake of getting tetras from PetSmart.
Same. Petsmart fish all had columnaris. We have treated them repeatedly with so many methods. Over 20 days.. and we still have it. Six fish died quickly.. the rest are probably not going to make it. I have no idea what to do. We have six tanks and I fear that it may cross contaminate.
I got a video I’d love to send you, just lost 3 peacocks and a jaguar fish. New to the hobby and this was quite a defeat. Still don’t know what it was. Treating tank for ick, before I buy anymore fish. Probably will not be exotic ones again for a while.
I know that this is over a year old but I just started following your vids from the UK. I'm really impressed by the info and really helpful so big thanks. One question, after keeping Oscars for over 15 years I have had first hand experience of HITH, what's your opinion on the link between the disease and the use of carbon in filters? All I can say is I've only ever seen it in a fish where carbon has been used so personally I don't use carbon in my Oscar tank anymore.
My Red Devil just recovered from Columinaris about a month ago. He is doing great and I'm trying to stay on top of my tank to keep him healthy. I've been doing bi-weekly water changes and gravel cleaning. When I change the water over I use prime as my water conditioner and API stress-zyme and Quick Start too. The only problem is that my water is still getting cloudy and I just want to keep it clear and ideal to keep the big guy healthy. Any recommendations? Also, what product combos do you recommend for tank maintenance? Thank you!
Is metro actually harsh though? My discus don't react to it at all. I mean they don't seem to even notice when it's applied. I use the straight stuff in powder form.
I have 3 Oscar's along with 1 blood parrot and 1 peacock cichlid all in a 125g tank. My Oscar's hsve all just recently gotten Cloudy Eye and I'm having a hard time trying to help them recover it seems. Thanks for the video I hope they can recover well soon.
I have never gotten a Ram that didn't have intestinal worms. I stopped trying to keep Rams. What do you do for intestinal worms? What can you do to treat Rams in quarantine before there are signs of worms or other diseases? Is there a treatment regime just as a standard quarantine process? These fish just seem to be problematic.
Good video. I wish you could have given more info on swim bladder issues. I have a black Molly that has been swimming on it's side for about a month now. I've tried everything from aquarium salt to Epsom salt baths. Antibiotics because the fish had some white stuff on it just prior to getting swim bladder disease. I even tried the peas but I haven't been able to get her to eat them.
Sadly lost a fish to dropsy today after a 3 a half week fight. Treated everyday and did salt baths, and he started getting better. I raised this fish and he was from my first ever fry batch. He was building up an orange tuxedo coloration too, but then got dropsy. I decided it was best to use clove oil today after his long fight. It was getting better until it boomed suddenly, he started shimmying and puffing up, including swimming at a diagonal form. Don’t get discouraged everyone , good day to you all.
3:58 We have 2 Bluegill and 2 catfish. One of our Bluegill has had what we assume to be ick for roughly 5-6 days despite treatment. Given that our catfish are not scaled fish, we are not able to use the vast majority of medications. We've had great success in the past with Herbtana and Artemiss by Microbe Lift. However, it's getting worse. Also, it is only impacting one of the two fish. Temp has been raised to 82F. Should we set up a hospital tank and treat the infected fish with medication instead of herbal treatments like we've done in the past? Any tips would be greatly appreciated!!!
We just had a tank of 4 glo tetras and a plecko. Made a huge mistake and bought 2 more tetras. Within 30 hours the 4 I originally had got ich. We bought the ich medication and treated them. And within 48 hours both the two new ones who were eating great and swimming great started swimming erratic and dropped dead. The plecko was also found dead afterwards and he was doing great. The remaining 4 my originals were breathing so rapidly, at the top of the tank, completely coated in ich all over their eyes and their fins were starting to fall off. I have no idea how the tank became such a disaster in such a short amount of time and we had 7 fish and now have 0. Any thoughts on what to do different next time other than introducing new fish differently. I am newer to the hobby for my kids so no bullying me please lol.
Hi. Thank you for all of the great videos. How about one on cleaning a tank after there has been disease in it. For instance, I rescued a BEtta, who it turned out had columnaris. He was in a 10 gal tank which I broke down after he was gone (didn't respond to treatment. Very sad...). I know this a highly contagious disease; so, I want to sterilize/super clean the tank before reusing it. What is a good safe way to do this? Also, how do a clean the heater and filter (HOB)? Thank you.
Thank you for all the information I could not find you've helped me out with my tank for over a year I don't even think he know it thank you for letting me know how to take care of my fish properly my fish thank you
