Is This Gill Flukes

[nvladik]

Problem

1. Please explain the problems with your fish. When did you notice the problems and did anything unusual happen that you think started them?
1 Discus has't eaten in 6 weeks. Went through a 1 week metro treatment with 90F temp with no change.

2. Symptoms (i.e. turning dark, excess slime, not eating, clamped fins, flashing, darting, clamped gills, white/yellow/green poop, hiding, headstanding or tailstanding, white on tips of fins, rotting or fungus, blisters/white zits on fish, bloated, cloudy eyes, wounds).
Not eating. I see something on the gills, not sure if it's flukes or just how the membrane is. I have a hard time finding good pictures of flukes, so tried to take some here and get SD member's opinion if it's flukes or not. I am seeing this whitish ares for more then a month already, can't say if it's getting bigger or smaller.

3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.
1 week Metro 4 weeks ago
1 week of Copper Power


Tank/Water

4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
10G QT Tank - 1 Fish

5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
Daily, 50-60%

6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
Bare bottom, 2 months, established filter.

7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
No, no PH swing.

8. Parameters and water source;

Note: Water Parameters are important in diagnosing problems within a tank. If you don't own test kits for the following information, you can purchase them, test your parameters and post this info as soon as possible.


- temp 84

- ph 7

- ammonia reading 0

- nitrite reading 0

- nitrate reading <5

What type of water or combinations of water sources do you use? If it is an RO/tap/well water mix, please list percentages in the mix.

- well water ____

- municipal water X

- RO water ____


9. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.
No

10. Include any pictures or videos you have which shows the symptoms. If you can't add them to this post, please provide a link to them.
Pictures coming in next thread

[nvladik]

[Rudustin]

The pictures do are not clear enough to assess gill flukes.

[Skip]

you need microscope to see them..

[nvladik]

Thanks Skip. So that means that white area I see in the pic is normal?

[Madaboutdiscus]

The white area looks like coloration to me but if there's anything else you're looking at its too fuzzy to see.

~Victoria

[CHEMAC]

Yes its normal i have several orange melons with that coloration

[nvladik]

[nvladik]

I took the last pic and tried to highlight the area's I have questions about.

Area 1 is outside of the gill, and I agree it's normal - its just the coloration of the fish.

Area 2 is actually membrane on the inside of the gill that moves in and our when the fish breaths. That's my primary concern, if ti's normal or not.

[Elliots]

I had that or a similar problem. I treated with metro daily for about two weeks straight and it went away after three-four weeks. I did not raise the temperature. I bought my metro from Ken's fish and I used the recommended dose. I am not sure what it was but it is gone. The gill membranes are once again inside the gill plates.

[timmy82]

Some full fish picture may help. I would't think fluke related. Up water from the 50 - 60 to 90 or greater .