Ok, thanks for that info, I shall google it.

Please keep me posted on how your fish does.

I don't know if it would help as I was reluctant to try it. If you do try it, I would love to hear the results. How old is your fish? Mine is about 4 years old, I'm guessing. The white spots did start out very slow, a few showing on the fish's sides, then eventually growing more and more and ...

edikpok, Reducing the water change amount and switching to Prime as mentioned before is all I have done so far. That did seem to help right away, as some of the white on the sides of the fish went away. However, there has been no real change since then. Last week, I had to move the contents of that ...

Please keep me posted on how it goes, I'd really like to hear. Keep in mind that it was probably a month or so before I began to see improvement.

Hi Aura, what a couple of beauties you have there! Answering your last question first, yes that is what it looked like when it first started. The only medication I ended up using was melafix to help with the shredded fins, which worked. As for the parts that were turning white, I am just doing ...

M@rs, thank you! MatsP, yes, I understand that is what they are for, I use them only when doing water changes. It is an established tank, it is cycled, the readings are ammonia 0, nitrite 0 and nitrate 10. (Used to be 5 until I added the other 6 fish, and now do smaller less frequent water changes ...

M@rs, while the fish is not cured, it is showing improvement. Following some advice I got, I began doing smaller water changes. I was doing 50% once a week, now I do about 25%. During this time frame, my husband was seriously injured in an accident, so it became 25% about every 10 days instead of ...

Methylene blue is almost certainly what Felix is talking about - I know that it's sometimes hard to spell chemical compounds in foreign languages, and I'm sure that it's not written the same in the Indonesian native language as in English. Different types of antifungals have different effect on ...

Hi, I,m Felix(Indonesia) As I see your pic, I,ve suggestion for treatment in external, U can use metilen blue.My syno like that too. Hi xilef, thanks for the answer. I am trying to google this as I've not heard of it before. Do you mean Methylene Blue, which is an anti-fungal treatment? That is the ...

Well Dave, I don't recognize you from your avatar picture. LOL!

I doubt we've met. I go in to AquaTek in Austin from time to time, but it's an hour and a half drive for me. I'm a brand new member of HCCC, but have not attended any meetings or events yet. Any place else we've likely met?

Thanks for the replies! I have googled hole in the head disease, but it doesn't seem to be the problem. There are no holes, no sores, no abrasions, just lack of color in the areas. No lethargy, no loss of appetite. The fish eats very well, is still growing, and is active. In fact, since I redid his ...

Thanks Amanda!

Thanks ZachPaul. MatsP, you have the right area. I live about 40 miles east of Austin, outside of a small town in Bastrop County. Austin is where my favorite fish store is. I was born in San Antonio, but that was a hundred years ago, and we only lived there for 10 days. We love to go visit that city ...

My water here is "liquid rock." It comes out of the tap about 8.7, and settles to about 8.4 or so in the tanks. I do not alter it in any way, but rather try to find fish that will live in the high PH.

I have a Synodontis eupterus catfish that is about 3.5 years old, and about 7 inches. It's first two years were spent in an ill-cared for 75 gallon tank with a mismatched collection of fish. I took possession of the tank and fish about 1.5 years ago. Since shortly after that time, the catfish has ...

Hi, my name is Dawn, and I live in Texas. I currently have 13 fish tanks set up, with a few that will be broken down, and a few that will be set up, who knows what the final number will be? It was suggested I come here because I may be having a problem with a catfish. Now that I have introduced ...