spleenharvester
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Hi all. I've mentioned bits of this in other posts and I apologise if it's cluttered the forum up a bit, but I'm getting really desperate.
Two months ago, a disease start spreading in my main tank, which we know originated from a guppy purchased from Ebay. The disease caused stringy white poop, unstable swimming, gasping at the top of the tank, followed by death within a few days. This disease only infected the guppies. We tried over a dozen medications, including every anti-parasitic available in the country; a wide range of anti-bacterias and anti-fungi; anti-protozoan medication imported from France; and other assorted things. It did nothing, the disease spread like wildfire and killed everything it touched - all 13 guppies were gone within weeks.
We ran UV in the tank for several weeks, then reintroduced 5 more guppies. So far, none of them are sick. Unfortunately our female bettas are now looking suspect. One of our girls, about 8 months old, started behaving reclusively - then we found her dead in one of her napping spots a few days later. No outward symptoms, injuries or signs of disease at all, just behaviour. We put it down to a one-off, but now our second female betta has started doing stringy white poops that look pretty much the same as the original disease did. I am really hoping that it's something benign but based on my atrocious luck with this tank so far, I doubt that's the case.
Has anyone got any ideas or magical medications I can try? If the disease is back then what the hell do I do now? If anything at all in there could be a carrier and it's completely untreatable then what do I do with all the surviving livestock? I can't give it away because it might spread the disease, and I can't just run the tank nearly empty indefinitely to wait and see if everything dies. I'm stuck between a rock and hard place.
Thanks.
Two months ago, a disease start spreading in my main tank, which we know originated from a guppy purchased from Ebay. The disease caused stringy white poop, unstable swimming, gasping at the top of the tank, followed by death within a few days. This disease only infected the guppies. We tried over a dozen medications, including every anti-parasitic available in the country; a wide range of anti-bacterias and anti-fungi; anti-protozoan medication imported from France; and other assorted things. It did nothing, the disease spread like wildfire and killed everything it touched - all 13 guppies were gone within weeks.
We ran UV in the tank for several weeks, then reintroduced 5 more guppies. So far, none of them are sick. Unfortunately our female bettas are now looking suspect. One of our girls, about 8 months old, started behaving reclusively - then we found her dead in one of her napping spots a few days later. No outward symptoms, injuries or signs of disease at all, just behaviour. We put it down to a one-off, but now our second female betta has started doing stringy white poops that look pretty much the same as the original disease did. I am really hoping that it's something benign but based on my atrocious luck with this tank so far, I doubt that's the case.
Has anyone got any ideas or magical medications I can try? If the disease is back then what the hell do I do now? If anything at all in there could be a carrier and it's completely untreatable then what do I do with all the surviving livestock? I can't give it away because it might spread the disease, and I can't just run the tank nearly empty indefinitely to wait and see if everything dies. I'm stuck between a rock and hard place.
Thanks.