Posted by Patrick73 on February 04, 2003 at 14:17:04:
Let me give a small bit of history here. I just recently moved a short distance (less than 10 blocks) with my 4 discus and 55 gallon tank. To accomplish this, I set up a temporary 20 gallong tank with one of my two filters with the same water conditions (temp pH etc.). I transferred the discus to the temp tank and moved the 55 gallon to the new home, set it up waited until the water was same temperature and used pH buffer to get it to the same pH. Finally, I moved the fish from the 20 gallon in the old house (they only spent about 48 hours there) to the new oneby transferring them to an insullated bucket with some water siphoned from the 20 gallon. They were in there no more than 10 minutes. One by one, I netted them and transferred them from the bucket to their new tank. Fortunately, all survived the journey. They were skitterry at first, which I'm sure is to be expected after the trauma of being moved, but they settled down. About an hour later, I noticed a dark patch on one side of one of the discus about 1/4 inch in diameter. I don't know if this was a bacterial lesion or some kind of injury resulting from some part of the move. As I thought about it, this fish did swim from the net very quickly and made a loud noise when she hit the back wall of the aquarium (below the water of course). The fish is in otherwise good health, eating--even laying eggs (she paired up with one of her tank mates about a year ago). The dark patch has turned white and has become noticably smaller. I'm pretty sure I've got nothing to worry about, but I just wanted to pick someone's brain to see if there is something I should be doing. I've never had to deal with major illnesses (except for minor ich back when I was still learning how to properly care for the fish), so if this is serious, I'm not sure how to treat it, and except for trying to match up the symptoms to the charts in the fish books, I'm never very good at diagnosing these things.
I know that was long-winded, but for anyone who got through it, should I be worried? If so what can I do?
