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Smoothing scales, colorlessness?
By DaysSweetDaze from the Jessica department, Section Diaries Posted on Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 01:48:30 PM PST Tags: (all tags)

Again, a new issue ;)

The male that hasn't been swimming well for a few days has actually perked up a bit. The shimmying has stopped, and he's eating... but...

The base of his body, by his tail fin, has lost color for about 1/4 of an inch. It looks very smooth, almost scaleless. Any ideas?
I'm removing him, for safety of my other fish and 20 something odd fry.

Just wondering if there's any ideas, and if this would be something water-bourne I should treat the tank for? (hard to tell what's catching fish to fish, or in the water, besides ich and parasites, etc.)

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Smoothing scales, colorlessness? | 4 comments (4 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Smoothing scales, colorlessness? (none / 0) (#1)
by maggie1270 on Sun Feb 13, 2005 at 04:12:40 PM PST

Is there any type of cottony substance growing off of it? Is there anything else you can tell us about his appearance?
Maggie

Re: Smoothing scales, colorlessness? (none / 0) (#2)
by DaysSweetDaze on Mon Feb 14, 2005 at 03:20:31 PM PST

There's no cottony growth, and I studied him pretty hard. I was concerned about columnaris, as one fish he was near had mouth fungus. He's extremely healthy now, and is boucing back from a weird wasting illness. Now he's swimming fine again, and eating very well!
The only thing noticable is that you can't see the scales on the very base of his body/tail, just very very smooth, and white in color, almost clear, but you can't see inside the fish.
It doesn't appear slimy and doesn't protrude, it just looks like a scaleless patch, all the way around.

I had a half-black female who, within two days, got a white slimy side, but that protruded and definately was thick and slimy. Nothing like that. (the pet store clerk also yelled at me and said that was a "really bad case of ich" which just seemed wrong to me... it was one whole solid side of the fish...)

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Re: Smoothing scales, colorlessness? (none / 0) (#3)
by maggie1270 on Mon Feb 14, 2005 at 05:58:53 PM PST

It doesn't sound like ich. Ich is white spots almost like dandruff all over the body of the fish. It does sound like Columnaris. I'm actually going through that myself with my favorite new florescent male guppy. Since he's been in the community tank a week prior to showing signs, (and after quarrantine I might add) I'm now treating the big tank with Furan-2 which is a gram-positive and gram-negative diseases. Hopefully it will help him. I would keep an eye on your fish and make sure to do extra water changes. Do you use aquarium salt at all? I read online that salt would help as well.
Maggie
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Re: Smoothing scales, colorlessness? (none / 0) (#4)
by miskairal on Mon Feb 14, 2005 at 07:04:56 PM PST

Sure sounds like the columnaris I've read about in the QuickLinks and if you read this Tropical climate for Tropical fish, you'll find some very interesting stuff on it from when I had it recently.

Better go add that one to the QuickLinks too as I can't see it there.

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