Disease identification

kateswan · Post by **kateswan** » 15 Dec 2003, 18:28

Does anyone know a good on-line resource to help in identifying fish diseases (with *pictures!*)

I've got a tinfoil barb with a skin condition I can't identify as one of the common ailments.

Thanks for any help -
Kathy S

RogerMcAllen · Post by **RogerMcAllen** » 15 Dec 2003, 19:19

Try http://www.fishpalace.org/Disease.html or http://www.fish-disease.com

kateswan · Post by **kateswan** » 15 Dec 2003, 20:12

Thanks Roger. I already tried Pandora's, and the other address isn't
coming up right now. I'm still looking! Why is it that, apart from ich, my fish always get things that don't conform to the usual list of suspects??

Just a hypothetical question. I appreciate the help.
Kathy S.

magnum4 · Post by **magnum4** » 15 Dec 2003, 22:44

kathy can you post a picture of the problem?

kateswan · Post by **kateswan** » 16 Dec 2003, 14:05

magnum -

The barb is highly reflective, and this is the best I could do.
It is much worse than the picture shows. The white patches are
roundish or ovoid, and the condition came on in about 24 hours.
The patches are glossy, not fuzzy, and do not appear to be
ich (as I know it), most being much larger than ich cysts,
and flatish, barely raised. The barb's eyes were cloudy when I
brought him home -- I guessed maybe he was a recent ich
survivor since my bettas have developed cloudy eye when battling
ich. He's in a 29-gal. isolation tank with parasite meds right now.
No ammonia/nitrates, hardish ph -- nearly 8-- but he's from
an area tank so he should be used to that. Well water, no additives.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

http://www.resorter.com/corydoras.html

Kathy S

magnum4 · Post by **magnum4** » 16 Dec 2003, 19:45

kathy i can't tell this from the picture but has "sickie" got any dusting of very fine spots?

kateswan · Post by **kateswan** » 16 Dec 2003, 21:16

magnum -

I've enlarged and lightened the picture, so I think it's clearer.
The spots aren't fine at all, range in size from a mature ich size
to as big as a cluster of 6 ich-size . . . they look kind of like
blisters.

Kathy S

magnum4 · Post by **magnum4** » 16 Dec 2003, 23:19

It looks to me to be either advanced oodinium (velvet)
or ichthyobodo necatrix (costia).

both should respond to parasite treatment but i would also increase the temperature to about 80.

The eye problem looks bacterial and may need seperate treatment.

It's difficult to find a decent range of picture of diseases on the web, and books become much more useful in identification IMO.