is this disease?

**Claudio Cabral** · 31st Aug 2008, 10:54 PM

Hi everybody! yesterday I've noted that two of my goldflakes had brown/beige stains instead of full dark red bodies...
i'm afraid that its a disease... has someone with goldflake experienced the same? could it be mood?
here are pictures of them:

water parameters:
ph- 7.6
no2- 0
no3- 5
po4- 0
kh-9
temp- 27ºC

the tank has lots of hiding places and plants too.
the only tankmates are other goldflakes and some tylomelanias.
thanks

**jonay** · 21st Jun 2010, 12:59 PM

hello,
What happened to your camarones??
I have an equal

**imke_j** · 21st Jun 2010, 01:20 PM

Hi, I have had same probs with my c. spinata and they all died. I guess this is a bacterial thing due to long and bad transportation (import). The shell dissoves from the inside and shrimp cannot molt properly.

**jonay** · 21st Jun 2010, 02:14 PM

thanks, but my shrimp are more than 1 month in my Gambario

**imke_j** · 21st Jun 2010, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by jonay

thanks, but my shrimp are more than 1 month in my Gambario

If they are wildcaught and imported, disease can still break out after you got them. I had mine for three months or so; you can call Sulawesi stable if they breed and are alive for more than 12 months....

**jonay** · 21st Jun 2010, 04:42 PM

thanks for answering
treatment???

**imke_j** · 22nd Jun 2010, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by jonay

thanks for answering
treatment???

Not known yet. I tested antibacterial treatment, but shrimps where already to weak to survive, I guess. Somebody suggested to try iod. If there is anybody who succeeded curing Sulawesi shrimps from this disease, please let us know....

**guppies** · 22nd Jun 2010, 02:02 PM

I posted what i experienced with brown spots and this treatment in my local forum in socal california. Here is the short version of the treatment.

I did this on two separate tanks, the community tank and the quarantine tank, lowered temp from 82F to 74-77 F then treated with seachem paraguard 1.5 times the recommended dosage on the label on day 1, 1 x on day 2 and 0.5 x on day 3. The brown spot should be gone by now, 2% or 3% water change. Some of my sulawesi snails die but most of the shrimps were fine, they did show signs of stress i.e. slow moving and blue, so don't go higher dosage.

**jonay** · 22nd Jun 2010, 03:32 PM

thanks
is necessary to treat all shrimp?
after treatment, no further treatment?
thanks

**guppies** · 22nd Jun 2010, 03:46 PM

I don't think brown spot will spread to other species, but you need to make sure that the quarantine tank that you transfer the infected yellow cheeks to has to be of the same conditions, water, pH, tds etc. Also the shrimps that don't show any signs of brown spot might been infected already.

There is no need to treat again if you have killed all the bugs, thats why I treated both tanks to prevent future contamination.