Dave C

I have used Metro many times over the years with much success. It doesn't affect your biological filter and seems to be very easy on the fish, in my experience. It has a tank life of about 8 hours so I dose my tanks 3x a day when I'm treating. Get the temp to 90ºF+ and add 400mg per 10g of metro. Put it in a jar of either tank water or RO water (it will dissolve better in RO) and shake it for awhile. Then just pour it in the tank. Do a 25-50% water change each day and redose the tank 3x a day for 3 days. Then leave the temp elevated and watch the fish for 4 days. Sometimes that's enough, sometimes you have to do it all over again. Usually after two treatments the fish is better. If not, I'd assume that Metro was not the drug of choice in this case. Feed the fish during treatment if it will eat, otherwise skip it and keep your tank clean. Here in Winnipeg we can get metro in tablet form from Fish Gallery. It can be bought in powdered form from Pet Solutions online and it makes it through Canada Customs because they just see it as an aquarium product. But when I last tried to bring 1 kg of Metro into the country it was sent back as you are supposed to have a prescription to buy this med. As I said before, I'd start by elevating the temp and adding salt.

Tons of pics. Check my site. Here's a few. Here's my 120g Ram tank while it was being stocked... Here's my 180g Ray tank before I added the black sand... Here's my 180g back when it was a planted Discus tank...

I'd skip the Melafix. Heat is a far better answer for increasing appetite. Start there. Metro is metronidazole, it's good for removing worms from fish.

Salt & heat will cure 90% of Discus related problems. I'd get the heat up to 90ºF and add 2 TbSp of salt per 10g. Ideally I'd isolate this fish but the heat/salt won't bother the other fish. While you're doing this I'd look for some Metro as it will help with internal worms. Are you seeing any white feces from this fish, or did you in the past?

I'm from Winnipeg. I used to be into Discus in a big way but now I'm keeping fish that I've always wanted, or had in the past. So far this is what I've got... 180g - 3 Motoro rays - 1 Flower ray - 1 Leopoldi ray - black sand 120g - 8 albino oscars - barebottom 120g - clown loaches - neon blue rainbows (praecox) - boesmani rainbows - Synodontis Flavitaeniatus - gold nugget plecos - bristlenose plecos - farlowella cats - emperor plecos - otocinclus - panda corys - java fern, java moss, anubias, bolbitis, driftwood & black sand 120g - gold rams - blue rams - tiger botias - cardinal tetras - schwartzi corys - otocinclus - skunk loaches - weather loach - yoyo loaches - zebra loaches - burmese zebra loaches - striped redtail loaches - java fern, java moss, anubias, bolbitis, vals, driftwood & silica sand 55g - pink convicts 55g - pink convict fry 50g - empty, soon to be planted tank, 192w light, CO2, Flourite 28g - gold ram pair - barebottom, amazon sword in pot with sand