Thank you for showing us how this medication is helping your fish a lot of folks do not do that so I am going to make sure I have his medication on hand thank you and I hope the fish is doing much much better
Mine is the same, I have tried General Cure, Fenbendazole, Flubendazole, and Levamisole and at this point he is paper thin and dying. I saw white cysts on the body so I am hoping the levamisole, followed by 2 more doses in the next few weeks can save the rest of the discus. Btw your fish, like mine, also has his skeleton showing through his side. A couple others have big eyes. So hope you were successful by now. I gotta check your channel.
New sub here! hopefully your Cichlid is all back to normal now, poor guy! I have been excited to set-up an African Cichlid tank and was wondering if you are going that route as well in the future or a new tank with another species of fish, Cichlids or other fish? Nice Truvu! Hopefully you will do another video update on your tank as well! Beautiful Discus and planted tank scape!
Thanks for sharing. It took 5 days huh. I have one cobalt that won't eat for 2 day's when he really gets scared. When catching other fish out of the tank etc. Stress the hell out of me every time.
As i know the production of general cure is stopped from API. I will try with the metronidazole as medication especially for internal infection from anaerobic.
I know this is an old video. But I wish you showed how he eventually did. I realize that requires large planning and a lot of time, so I don’t blame you. But how did this fish end up doing ? My whole tank is currently infected with a parasite. Again, I know this video is old, but it’s probably the best one I’ve found for how to administer general cure for parasite discus disease. Thanks in advance and I really hope you are able to reply. These discus are so important to me.
My intention was that by showing the fish that was sick and not eating going for food at the end, that they improved. I have had to do this a few times over the years and it usually works. Depends on the issue and other factors. Good luck.
Seeing what happened on day 7, a week later, and then 2 weeks later would have been very useful to know. But I guess we have to just use our imaginations.
I appreciate the tips. Any chance you know how to maintain a carbon filter during med treatment? Take it out and let it dry or put it in a bag of tank water till treatments done?
I know im late but when you put the medication in do you do a water change after, put more medication in, or just leave it as is intill the next water change?
I have a discus fish (blue diamond) that changes color, from light to dark to light... i am not sure if i need to worry about it, but yeah i am kinda bothered whenever he turns dark. Also you mentioned about the eyes being dark. Whenever my discus turns dark the eyes become black, and light color becomes bright red. And he can change like in just a seconds. is that normal? Or there is something wrong?
It is a stress indicator. If it is only occasional it is probably ok. If it is long term and other discus aren't behaving the same way, could be some kind of sickness only that fish has. If they all do it, likely environmental reasons like something with the water. I have all healthy discus at the moment but some have different personalities and go dark or show stripes for short intervals and I never know why.
@@Jackson22379 yes it is costly. Discus are even more costly though, and besides that over time they grow on you and the value is beyond monitary. End of the day, if there is a parasitic cycle, one should consider that treating the whole tank ensures that the parasites will not spread to the rest of the community. This is why I treated the whole tank. The parasites could be in the fish, in the substrate waiting to be ingested by another fish, and stuff like that. If I only treated one fish and the parasites were spreading in the community, I haven't done much good and probably wasted the medicine I used to treat the single fish. If the other fish are not yet showing symptoms, they may still already be infected.
Thank you for showing us how this medication is helping your fish a lot of folks do not do that so I am going to make sure I have his medication on hand thank you and I hope the fish is doing much much better
Mine is the same, I have tried General Cure, Fenbendazole, Flubendazole, and Levamisole and at this point he is paper thin and dying.
I saw white cysts on the body so I am hoping the levamisole, followed by 2 more doses in the next few weeks can save the rest of the discus.
Btw your fish, like mine, also has his skeleton showing through his side. A couple others have big eyes. So hope you were successful by now. I gotta check your channel.
New sub here! hopefully your Cichlid is all back to normal now, poor guy! I have been excited to set-up an African Cichlid tank and was wondering if you are going that route as well in the future or a new tank with another species of fish, Cichlids or other fish? Nice Truvu! Hopefully you will do another video update on your tank as well! Beautiful Discus and planted tank scape!
I have a betta on my desk in the office and I think he deserves a better home. That is probably my next project.
How is the little guy doing now? Couple months later? Beautiful fish ✨
they are all doing great, thanks for asking! Little guy is growing and catching up with the rest in size as well.
Thanks for sharing. It took 5 days huh. I have one cobalt that won't eat for 2 day's when he really gets scared. When catching other fish out of the tank etc. Stress the hell out of me every time.
How many gallons is your tank and how many sachets of api general cure you used per day?
As i know the production of general cure is stopped from API. I will try with the metronidazole as medication especially for internal infection from anaerobic.
I know this is an old video. But I wish you showed how he eventually did. I realize that requires large planning and a lot of time, so I don’t blame you. But how did this fish end up doing ? My whole tank is currently infected with a parasite. Again, I know this video is old, but it’s probably the best one I’ve found for how to administer general cure for parasite discus disease. Thanks in advance and I really hope you are able to reply. These discus are so important to me.
My intention was that by showing the fish that was sick and not eating going for food at the end, that they improved. I have had to do this a few times over the years and it usually works. Depends on the issue and other factors. Good luck.
Do you need to remove chloride in the water that you mixed with med?
Seeing what happened on day 7, a week later, and then 2 weeks later would have been very useful to know. But I guess we have to just use our imaginations.
Imagine healthy fish eating normally
Great video!!! What kind of flakes are you feeding????
Usually seachem discus flakes
@@hugheymorrow thank you! That's what I feed to mine and I plan to try ocean nutrition diacus flakes soon!
Is it ok to leave the spong filter on while medicating
Sure
I appreciate the tips. Any chance you know how to maintain a carbon filter during med treatment? Take it out and let it dry or put it in a bag of tank water till treatments done?
They (API) say to remove carbon during treatment. Personally I don't have any carbon. I would think the carbon could likely absorb medication.
I know im late but when you put the medication in do you do a water change after, put more medication in, or just leave it as is intill the next water change?
No water changes during treatment. Only after the 4th day.
@@hugheymorrow what size water changes?
@@rollxrsmash3591 40 gal
@@hugheymorrow no like what PERCENT water change?
@@rollxrsmash3591 33٪ only because that's what I do normally, API says 25%
my discusses is very active but dont want eat pls help me
I have a discus fish (blue diamond) that changes color, from light to dark to light... i am not sure if i need to worry about it, but yeah i am kinda bothered whenever he turns dark. Also you mentioned about the eyes being dark. Whenever my discus turns dark the eyes become black, and light color becomes bright red. And he can change like in just a seconds. is that normal? Or there is something wrong?
It is a stress indicator. If it is only occasional it is probably ok. If it is long term and other discus aren't behaving the same way, could be some kind of sickness only that fish has. If they all do it, likely environmental reasons like something with the water. I have all healthy discus at the moment but some have different personalities and go dark or show stripes for short intervals and I never know why.
Unfortunately Api general cure isn't available here in the UK
You can get it via Amazon or eBay :)
Do you know if it’s okay to do this treatment for discus without a filter running? Mines carbon so I can’t run it with the treatment
Can you remove the carbon
You only used the 1 box for the 6 day period ?
I use 2 boxes total
Wonderful.
Sir can I use sponge filter during medication of API general cure in my aquarium thanks in advance God bless
sure that's ok
Keep in mind that there is sponge filter as carbon also a black one. You have to remove from your filter
Will it kill the beneficial bacteria??
It will not harm the be beneficial bacteria.
Shouldn't you quaretine the sick fish
You should treat the hole tank but
No need ro quarantine the one if it has been with the rest since the beginning, especially if it is a parasite within a community already exposed.
@@hugheymorrow yes but it's better to treat a smaller tank
In my case 😹
Medicine is expensive
@@Jackson22379 yes it is costly. Discus are even more costly though, and besides that over time they grow on you and the value is beyond monitary. End of the day, if there is a parasitic cycle, one should consider that treating the whole tank ensures that the parasites will not spread to the rest of the community. This is why I treated the whole tank. The parasites could be in the fish, in the substrate waiting to be ingested by another fish, and stuff like that. If I only treated one fish and the parasites were spreading in the community, I haven't done much good and probably wasted the medicine I used to treat the single fish. If the other fish are not yet showing symptoms, they may still already be infected.
@@hugheymorrow agreed
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When doing the medication do i need to turn off my filtration?
Just remove carbon. Keep aeration going.