sam.apo Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Why does this fish have a sunken in stomach. Ive lost a fish previously with this symptom. My water parameters are good ive been adding cichlid salts and kh buffers. My fish seem to be doing much better. But i am worried this fish will die soon.. it is happy and eating well currently. But it just does not look right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chuckmeister Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Its hard to recover a fish at this stage. It could be many issues. Have you tested the water conditions? Is the fish being bullied etc? Any observations in the tank?Also having a small quarantine tank can be handy. I nearly always start on salt dosing for sick fish unless its something obvious like ich or similarly obvious illness.Sometimes fish have mystery deaths that that are very difficult to identify..such as wasting disease (which this looks like)Link posted a great technical post here. Its pretty involved but a good read...Melefix may help.edit - it probably looks like its eating but its likely to be sucking it in its mouth and spitting it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buccal Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Flagellates cause this waisting but unlikely this.Most likely a type of gram negative bacteria issue.If your doing all the right things and have a respectively healthy aquarium,, then as it is often, this fish was purchased with the issue already engaged.The phenochilus Tanzania is suseptable to gram negative bacterial issues at early fry stage.To me the infection has progressed to far with irriversable damage to internal organs,,,, it's possible it could kick for quite some time.And even if you were to cure the infection the stomach would never fill out and fish would die prematurely with severe spinal curvature.In general it doesn't spread that well and very low level contagious wise.But Definetely should remove and cull it.If you have primary issues in your aquarium actually causing a secondary issue of gram negative disease, then other fish will be effected by this, and may appear its spreading from one fish to another, but essentially they're all subjected to the same issues of water conditions.It's no big deal, and it seams your tank is fine and on track,,,, and likely you got the fish already infected, even if fish wasn't already infected, the gram negative bacteria is always present in every healthy tank, but it only presents or blooms when tank goes down hill.So,,,,,, every time you see a fish like this, straight away whip it out and cull it.Only worry if many fish in your tank are coming down with this all at once or often.Hope this let's you know where your at........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxib Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 I purchased four acei tanzania. Two have thrived, the other look like the pictures in the above post. I tried every treatment under the sun, including metrodizanole. Nothing worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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