Pls help me on this

[leo lim]

Originally Posted by phillife76

Bro, urs seem to be a water problem. Add activated carbon for a few days to remove unwanted chemical in the water.

Hi bro philife,

Already added AC for 3 days, but notice that there are many small round black dot appeared on the back of the fish. However, the fish still eat well.
Will continue to monitor, and WC (15%) every three days with addition of salt and anti-chlorine.

How about other bros here who have the same problem?
Have yr fishes recovered? Maybe like to share yr solution or experience on treating this disease.

I don't think what you've got is a disease. I could offer a few possibilities. Trauma to scales, chlorine burn, early signs of rust disease etc.

If it's trauma or chlorine burn, then just regular water change with aged water, salt & epsom salts at 0.1% should be sufficient. If the scales have been traumatised, then it might take several weeks for them to recover & look normal again. Scales will regenerate as do nails in humans.

Monitor to see if the lesions progress further. If they get worse, then you need to provide better pics & more info of the problem then. Cheers.

[leo lim]

Originally Posted by Vetduck

I don't think what you've got is a disease. I could offer a few possibilities. Trauma to scales, chlorine burn, early signs of rust disease etc.

If it's trauma or chlorine burn, then just regular water change with aged water, salt & epsom salts at 0.1% should be sufficient. If the scales have been traumatised, then it might take several weeks for them to recover & look normal again. Scales will regenerate as do nails in humans.

Monitor to see if the lesions progress further. If they get worse, then you need to provide better pics & more info of the problem then. Cheers.

Thanks for yr feedback.
And, also like to offer my apologize to you (and the rest of the aro-medic) for any offening words.
To come back to the fish issue, it only happened only the day after I put in the AC.
Do you have any pic on Traumatised scales?

[ChuckII]

Originally Posted by soho

Dun panic too much. Just to let you know, my aro also have the same problem as yours, whitish stuff on the top scale. Hope that makes you feel better that you're not alone, encountering problems like this.

Stay cool, and dun meddle with medication unless you can pinpoint exactly wat's wrong with your aro. If apply wrongly, it may aggravate the situation and stress your aro even more.

For my case (its even worse), I just noticed that the single affected scale is slightly protruding this evening after i'm back from work. Dun intent to worry too much over it, and maintain good water parameters shd do the trick.

Let time and the aro's own body resistance/immunity system help it recover from the problem. As long as the aro is healthy and feeding fine, it shd recover, although slowly and may take some time.

Also, try to give the aromedics a break lah, its festive season and they may be on holidays or such. Plus this is one of the "lesser" forums within the arofanatics forums. Viewership is very much lower than others, such as discussion, buy/sell, etc.

I'm just trying to give some of my views and hope you dun take offence.

Totally agree with u Bro...

[leo lim]

I think my fish has cured.
Thanks for the advise from bros in the forum.

For those bros who have fishes having the same disease (esp bro chuckII who fish has the same problem), maybe you can add in AC to remove all the chemical, impurities...etc and then WC. Only add Stress coat antichlorine, salt (0.1%) and espom salt (0.1%) and ketapang leaves. WC every about 3-4 days and observe for about 2 weeks.
This is what I have done to cure my fish. No guarantee it can sure cure yr fish.

Hi Leo,

your Aro might have a bit of chip scales after this problem. Mine kanna lor. Actually mine kanna a few times liao. That ARO very sensitve to water conditions. Even when i already age the water for 3 days with anti chlorine also will kanna. Imediately after WC i notice white stuff with very small bubbles hanging on ARO's body. So what i did was immediately add salt a bit more anti chlorine and air bubbles at full blast. The problem goes aways the next day or 2.

The thing is be calm and don panic

[leo lim]

No chip scale observed but initially there are alot of black dot on the back, then slowly become one patch...slowly the patch disappeared.

Originally Posted by leo lim

No chip scale observed but initially there are alot of black dot on the back, then slowly become one patch...slowly the patch disappeared.

That's more likely chlorine burn liao. BTW mine also heehee just keep good water conditions can liao. Add more anti chlorine.