Victorian Disease?

[tmax57]

I have a mysterious disease going around a couple of my tanks but it is
only affecting Victorians. The malwains in the tank are totally fine.
They stop eating, they look like they are coughing, their buchal cavity
expands almost looks like they are holding, they constantly have their mouth open, they get very slow and placid. Some hang out in the air bubbles, some sit on the bottom. One new symptom I have notices is thick, white, almost see through feces. Some of the
fish have made it out of this, most have not, it is almost a 80% die off
once they have it. I lost a crimson tide male and a couple females to
this, the other females have it and look like they are on their way down,
paralabs red fin piebald fought it off except for one. I also lost half of my P. Nyereri "makobe" to this. Any thoughts? At differenttimes and on different fish i have tried Anti bacterial, anti fungal, andmethalyne blue I've done water change, and now have added salt, which
seems it may have helped, but has not cured. This has been a battle in two of my tanks now for three months. The disease usually lasts for about 2-3 weeks depending on the fish. Like I said, it is only effecting the Victorians. The malawains, and West Africans that live with the Vics are fine. This has now spread to some of my Victorian only tanks. Please help I am losing my favorite fish.

[Christophe de Medeiros]

hi I had this some times ago and stop by by a antibiotic treatmnent, I'll send yu the name in pm.
xris

[Endymion]

Have you tested Nitrite levels. Lake Victoria cichlids are more sensitive to that than lake Malawi cichlids

[alanastar]

Hi,
sounds like something i have sadly come across more than once.
i have found vics inparticular seem to suffer from intestinal worm.
there are many forms of worm and few treatments, but that is the way i would go for treating your fish.
stop feeding and treat with what ever you have over your side of the pond.
keep stress to a minimum.

hope this helps.
paul