Fish Lovers 2.0

[MacGyver]

Serenaded by Angels: he's beautiful!
Name suggestions: (these are actually more Native American but here goes anyway xD)
X'els (pronounced z-ay-lz)
T'akaya (tuh-ky-uh)

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

@Grimace How can I tell if it is fish Tiberculosis? What can I do for her? And will it spread to my other fish?

Once a fish has TB, it's pretty much game over for them and, very possibly, the rest of the tank. I've never heard of anything that will cure fish TB other than expensive meds that might not even help the fish, and it can spread to humans. I don't think it's fatal, but it's still pretty nasty, so make sure to keep your hands out of the tank, and, if you must put them in, wear gloves and wash your hands. I'd recommend euthanizing the fish. In all honesty, you might need to euthanize the whole tank and then disinfect it with a bleach based cleaning solution. I think Cardinal dealt with TB in their aquarium once, so they might have some advice.

That's horrible....I really hope that's not what it is. Every fish in that tank means a lot to me, some have been around for years....

[Dumezil]

My Tequila Guppy mama, Darla, finally died.
I wasn't sure what it was at first but it looked like a tumor or a growth of some kind near her spine. It was under the skin and it never spread to the other fish and she lived with it for like two months so I'm pretty sure that is what it was.
She left behind like thirty babies, though.

The male Tuxedo guppy/Tequila guppy mix males are finally getting full color and are looking beautiful.

I also got six new baby Mosquito Fish from the pond on our land who are getting big. My Mosquito Fish/Tequila Guppy mix is in the breeding tank with them keeping them company. His swimming is still poor but he's almost four months old now and chases the females around definitely wanting to breed with them. I'm wondering if I should breed him with a Fancy or a Mosquito, though. Want to try and get rid of the funny swimming. He swims like this: / with his head up.
It hasn't stopped him from eating or breeding or harassing the other males in the tank, though. Definitely has the personality of a Mosquito.

Speaking of, it is getting warmer and the mosquito bugs are starting to breed! My fish LOVE mosquito larva. Hopefully will be able to treat them soon.

[flyteck]

One of my bettas recently got moved to a new tank, and boy does he have some serious territorialness. If I put my finger on the glass, he flares at me until I take it off. Attitude much?

Love him and his sassiness to death though XD

[iWonder]

One of my bettas recently got moved to a new tank, and boy does he have some serious territorialness. If I put my finger on the glass, he flares at me until I take it off. Attitude much?

Love him and his sassiness to death though XD

Yep. My betta , Fishie MacFly is exactly the same way.
He was a gift/rescue.

[.Survivor.]

Oh wow...Tinypic, why must you hate rotating pictures for me? Lol
Here is a better pic of my new boy. Believe it or not, I got him at Walmart. Most of the time, the fish at Walmarts are not in very good condition so I don't usually buy from there, but I couldn't resist this guy.



And no, He and Ryuu are not in the same tank. Ryuu is in a tank with a less powerful filter safe for elderly betas. Lol

[Grimace]

@Grimace How can I tell if it is fish Tiberculosis? What can I do for her? And will it spread to my other fish?

Once a fish has TB, it's pretty much game over for them and, very possibly, the rest of the tank. I've never heard of anything that will cure fish TB other than expensive meds that might not even help the fish, and it can spread to humans. I don't think it's fatal, but it's still pretty nasty, so make sure to keep your hands out of the tank, and, if you must put them in, wear gloves and wash your hands. I'd recommend euthanizing the fish. In all honesty, you might need to euthanize the whole tank and then disinfect it with a bleach based cleaning solution. I think Cardinal dealt with TB in their aquarium once, so they might have some advice.

That's horrible....I really hope that's not what it is. Every fish in that tank means a lot to me, some have been around for years....

The worst part is it is also transmittable to humans.

I wouldn't advise euthing the whole tank though unless everything starts doing it. It could be a few other things.

[Dia.]

Fish TB is transmittable to humans and while I'm not sure if it's fatal, it's still pretty nasty and you don't want it.
The entire tank most likely will have it if one fish has it. Also, anything you've used with another tank aside from that one like a siphon or net or whatever (or your hands if you touched the water) might have spread it between tanks. I read an article about someone who took down a tank for 20 years after all of her stock died from TB and 20 years later, she put it up, and the disease still affected the tank. I believe the only way to make sure it's sterilized is a bleach solution but I don't remember.
I did quite a bit of research on it since I went to my LPS and saw a ton of fish with the whole bent spine thing going on. >.>
Good luck. Hopefully that's not it.

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

Thanks for the info guys. I am praying that's not it, I have 46 fish to worry about. Plus, is it transmitable to frogs? I'm not sure what to do now...I did some research and the symptoms of it are: lack of appetite, and she's been eating fine. Staying in seclusion, and she still swims around. Cloudy or popped out eyes, and hers look normal. Rapid breathing, none of that. Laying on side at the bottom, nope. Sunken stomach, hers is actually all bloated. White splotches, she doesn't have any. And fraying fins, hers are fine. I also read that it's very rare and most people who think their Danios had it, they actually didn't have it. Idk what it is they would have then but that's what I read. Hopefully what I read is true though, since she isn't showing any symptoms. Would it help if I maybe got a video of it?

[Autotomy]

Okay, so I have had the heater unplugged from my goldfish tank, the pleco should be able to live for 3 days until I get home from Sweden.

And wait, is a bent spine a symptom of fish TB? Along with a dropsy-like chest? In my community tank's life span, my guppies and tetras and danios usually either would get a swollen belly or a spine that bent right at the dorsal fin. The usually would lie in the bottom and pant for air though, so I would fill a ziplock bag 1/5 of the way with water, about a teaspoon of alcohol, and put them in the freezer for 3 days. Then I would put them in the garbage can, when I was absolutely positive they were dead. In my opinion as a 6 year old; I would rather have them go through a few hours of pain than a few days.
If a fish was already dead as a doornail and had already been picked through by the loaches, i.e thread-like fins, eaten eyes, bites out of a pale body, I would either flush it down the toilet or bury it in the forest.

I've had my hands and arms in that tank for around 7 years or something; but I always washed any places that had contact with the tank water quickly.

I'm thinking of tearing down my community with the remaining 7 oddballs in a bucket with a bubbler for a few days, and letting the tank soak with bleach in it before I re-do it and restock. I've got places for all of the remaining fish to go: my dwarfed platy with the other one in the fry tank(planted and with a bubbler, set around 80 degrees); my one guppy to my friend; my tetras to my friend who already has some of them; my cories either with my kribs or with the goldies(2 albino cories, kribs at about 80 degrees, goldies room temperature); and my flying fox can go with my betta as he is still small and gets along well with the snails and shrimp, and Floyd.