"Gill Passman" wrote in message
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I read the link that Koi-Lo provided and it certainly does sound as if it
is Neon Tetra Disease....one thing I guess is I know have one of the
biggest QT tanks in the hobby :-( - all the fish in the tank have been
exposed and there will be no additions until the thing settles. The fish
had been in the LFS for some weeks so injury through shipping is possibly
not an option although I will take them to task about this - going there
on Thursday....

We can't get anti-biotics over here off the shelf so maybe I will give the
Melafix a try....the bottle is on my desk following recent discussions....

On a positive note I do still have 5 Neons...the missing one turned up for
his dinner...the remaining ones are feeding well. I have managed to get
the majority of the bodies out - maybe missed 1 or 2 max....I'm a little
worried about the Pandas and the Rainbows but hopefully from my reading
they are not quite as susceptible to this as other fish can be...

Thanks guys....a little depressed about all this....

Gill

This happened to 5 of my Neons a while ago, though a large one went two days
ago.
They seemed fine for about 6 months, then one a day until I moved the last
three to the downstairs tank.

Everything was fine until the heavier one started swimming badly.
Almost as if one side was paralyzed, though it was still eating OK.
I thought it had died as it was lying on the gravel, but of course as soon
as the net appears recovery was instantaneous :-)

Unfortunately, the following day there was no sign of him/her despite a
gravel clean.
So who eats fastest, Clown Loaches, SAE's, Weather Loaches, Angels, Corys,
or Platies ?

Peter