What kind of sickness is this?

This here is my Brown African Knife Fish that I kept for about a year and this problem has never happened before... I have never seen this ... what kinda of diseases is this? doesn't look like ick I don't think but I personally have no clue.

Iam talking about these white little lines and stuff that on the body of the fish....






Plz help out if you have any idea what this is...

It possibly looks like an over production of slime? If so a few water changes are in order.

Ya thats my guess as well, my discus does that wen they do,their pecking order but it could br someone picking on him. They are docile than most knifes.

i was thinkin the same thing,slime coat washinig off

Hello, I agree with fern. Several small water changes will
help. You may want to do some water tests. I usually prefer
to immediately go towards water pollution. You can't go wrong with
decreasing the condition of the water. Some fish will at times produce excess
slime when water is not in ideal conditions.

dang.... I did a 20% water change 2 days ago... Iama do 10% for a week and see how it goes... thanks guys and gals for the help. Appreciated.

Does he look extra slimy to you?

Fern wrote:

Does he look extra slimy to you?

kinda of... now that you guys said it... it does look slimy... what i also noticed was that normally he will hide during the day and only come out at night or feeding time... but just past few days he was swimming around the whole tank....like non-stop...

Did someone steal his spot? Stress either environmental or physical is what tends to cause over production of slime. So check them both, water changes and a close eye on him and other inhabitants and you should either see the issue or fix it by water changes.

Check the ammonia/nitrite levels in the tank.......Ammonia burns will cause heavy slime build up.

I agree with Fern.. I have you too and there was a time that my cichlids were picking on him too much and he got so stressed out that was down for weeks..

Ok, now that I have waited about 2 days, it's kinda of showing some kind of skin type disease.... I have NEVER seen it and every time I google it, always comes up as ICK... I know it's NOT ick.... but I doesn't look like slime either...

And every time I put my hand in the tank it will swim up and try and scratch it self agginest my hand...





Redness near the tail.....














So yeah, if you'll know anything about this plz let me know... I don't want this lil guy to suffer than it already has...

Here is a link for decent diagnosis of common ailments
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/information/Diseases.htm#Diagnostic
your fish looks like it has what they call red pest disease

Oh cr@p... that does NOT look like it's gona be easy to fix.....

Looks like you need antibiaotics...there are a few foods with antibioctics already included. I could not tell you if they work but it might be worth a try.

Ken's has alot of medicines if you cannot find them at LFS
http://kensfish.com/index.html

That's a good website, thanks for the link! As for the oral antibiotics - I used to have this stuff that dripped out in gel bubbles. I would put my hand under the blue oranda that was always sick, bring him up to where just his mouth was out of the surface and drip out an antibiotic bubble into his mouth. It worked out well. (ended up loosing the fish when I got tired of always treating him. Weak immune system - since I lost none of the others in the tank)

I agree with you i never have any luck with fish when i give them antibiotics...

Thanks guys. Appreciate youalls help. Iama try useing antibiotics. If it doesn't work I'l try something els.

He is not eating anymore which is my biggest concern.

If you can get him in an isolation tank with no/little light and turn the heat up. Fish are like humans when they are sick they do not lick to eat...try putting somke garlic flavor with his food my fish go crazy for the stuff also has added vitamins in the sea-chem version

Good Luck. We are all fighting for ya!

Iam not sure, but with all my surching that I have done.... it all points to Velvet..... but Iam just not sure...has anyone ever had to deal with Velvet before?

Ich is all I have experience with. Sorry. Good Luck!

It is a bacterial infection that may be columnaris....If it is the whole tank will have to be treated because it is very contagious.......I would treat with Maracyn and Maracyn II together which will have a shotgun effect on gram negative and gram positive bacteria.