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As above with the how much salt. And as Jim said, a way to check is do 30% plus water change & see if they simmer down. If you do choose to treat with medicine, check what it is like on catfish. Some parasite remedies are hard on scaleless fish. Frenchy

Oppsss sorry, my bad Bill. :oops: Frenchy Fixed. Mod Bill.

I agree with above comments. Still a beautiful looking fish. Frenchy

It is not a johanni. Wonder if someone kept demasoni & johanni in the same tank. :roll: Can anyone else see the 2 fish species in the one in pic. :-? ps; Don't research to hard Brad. Good money on hybrid. Frenchy

From doing a bit of looking up of red blood vessels. I think the fish pictured may well have had hemorhagic septicemia. {Common in Gold Fish} It is caused by a bacteria that attacks a fish's blood vessels. The bacteria slowly spreads, causing hemorrhaging along the way. The above information was from http://www.angelfire.com/blues/fish_pro ... CEMIA.html Frenchy

Fair enough, the red streaks made me think, what to do too. Is it caused by bacteria or flukes. Hope the other fish pull through. Flukes can be a pain to rid, especially when well established. Frenchy

Zebra is just a slang name for some of the mbuna species, eg; pseudotropheus, metriaclima etc hmmmm, better not :lol: Frenchy

Phfft, thrills for noddy :lol: Frenchy

:lol: great minds..... Frenchy

Above question is good....I was wondering if the tank is big enough or are you able to partition off the tank. Frenchy

Remove the gill cover with a pair of scissors. Have a look at the gills. What colour are they, {pink, red} any white patches, any watery appearance. Skin & Gill flukes are O.3-O.5mm in size. They differ in look. You can even do a scale scrap & have a look there too if you have a microscope. Try & get hold of a good text book that has disease pictures, therefore easy to compare & see if the gills are healthy, riddled with flukes etc. I think you left the flukes to long on your fish. As you have lost others, I would do a water change on your tank & keep treating with prazi. I looked up Furan-2 too, Your fish have flukes. That isn't bacterial. Treat with prazi, or with what Alan stated. If you explained what you said your fish were doing to the lfs....why did they sell you melafix, then furan? Oh well. Frenchy

The trouble with treatment, gill flukes for example. The eggs can take 1 to 21 days to hatch. If I was to quote Gerald Bassleer, from his fish disease book. To treat with prazi, 250mg/100lt {for 3 days} Then to repeat the treatment over a period of 3 weeks to kill off all the larvae. It is different to what medicine bottles state too, but I prefer to take the word of Doctor who specialised in fish diseases & spent 25 years in the international ornamental fish trade. Especially when you read up on the life cycle of the gill flukes. I don't know what is in furan. But Praziquantel should never be used with Formalin or FMC. Hope it's not to late & your fish pull through. You could add a little salt 1-3 grams/lt for 3-5 days. Will help heal the red streaks & help control the gills. Frenchy

I probably wouldn't use at the same time. Using furan now after prazi, a month ago will be fine. 2 treatments 5 days apart isn't the proper way to use prazi either. Therefore chances are you never killed all the flukes. Frenchy

hmmmm, The red patches with the scratching is leading me to believe that your fish may have both bacterial & parasitic infection. At least, that is a sign of skin flukes. Treat for that as soon as possible. It has been 3 days since Alan answered your question. When you used prazi last time, how many times & often did you treat? Frenchy

From my limited knowledge on this, both fish would have to have the albino gene. I would separate the albinos from the normals too. What you were told I have heard heaps of times from good sources. Also if you separate & grow up the albinos. Then breed them against each other. Albino with albino, you should in theory get all/mostly albino too. Frenchy

Over here we lose power for different reasons. I have a few battery pumps just so I can still have oxygen in the tanks. That is a big concern. As for cold, thick blanket will do the job easily. Frenchy

I liked the links David. Good read. Frenchy

This is my biggest issue. Make sure you quarantine the pleco before adding to the discus. Frenchy

I am in a different country, Microworms White Calvus Electric Yellows Frenchy

Do the white spots look like they are sort of growing from out of the skin. Twice to 3 times the size of white spot? I am thinking could be skin flukes. Google pictures & compare to see. Don't know what is in furan. In disease books, skin flukes & gill flukes are treated with different chemicals. Frenchy

I remember when lfs here went through the melafix for everything phase. Yep it's good for scratches etc. Even I used it a fair bit. Haven't used in 2 years lol. But for treatment of flukes? That isn't on the bottle. You need to get something that treats gill flukes. If you can get something that treats both gill & skin flukes be better. When you have symptoms that lead to a particular problem, you use the medicine that matches. The way I see it, they aren't isn't 100% sure what to treat for. Especially when he gives you a medicine that is "safe" on fish. Bizarre. Frenchy

They are just called A nyassae. Found in 1922 I think. They are a type of stuartgranti. No books are wrong, out of date etc. Frenchy

Just checked Ad Konings book. Back to Nature. Malawi Cichlids. Page 65, Aulonocara stuartgranti trade names: includes.... Aulonocara Nyassae Frenchy

Albinos are rare. If you breed the albinos against each other you will increase your numbers. Albino is a recessive gene. Nyassae is a type of Aulonocara stuartgranti Royal blue is just a trade name. Frenchy

I think it is a Red forest jewel. Frenchy