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Please help me diagnose

Post by Glostik » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:25 pm

I have a clown loach that i thought had some mild fin rot.

I treated the tank with maracyn and maracyn two. After a 6 day treatment, i found him with one fin covered in cotton fungus, and a massive bump on his side that is red. It looks like a massive pimple.

I moved him to a 10 gallon tank by himself and started treating with maracyn / maracyn 2 again. He seems to be getting better, his spine isnt bent as bad anymore, but his fin is still covered in cotton fungus and his pimple looks like its getting bigger.
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Post by Glostik » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:07 pm

plz help
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Post by Emma Turner » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:37 pm

Hi Glostik,
Sorry to hear about the problems with your loach.
You'll probably need to answer a few questions to help with a diagnosis. What are the water parameters of the main tank that he was in? Is he a new addition to the tank? Any other fish affected? A guess would be some sort of bacterial infection with a secondary fungal infection. Can you post a photograph of this at all?
Coming from the UK, unfortunately I am not familiar with the Maracyn treatments you mention, hopefully someone from Canada/USA may chip in on this soon.
Sorry I can't be of more help,

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Post by Glostik » Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:06 pm

PH 7.0~7.2
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 20ppm

150G Planted - Been up 2 yrs.

The loach is one of the oldest inhabitors , hes bout 7in.
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Post by Emma Turner » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:16 pm

The water parameters seem good. What other fish do you have in the main tank? Is there anything that may be behaving aggressively towards this loach?

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Post by shari » Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:35 pm

Is his fin the only area that seems to have the cotton growth? Would it be possible to post a picture of him in the 10g?

Is there any kind of protuding decoration in the tank he could have gotten injured on? Do you see any other fish with fungus? Or fungus anywhere in the tank?

The 'pimple' may be a spreading infection, but the maracyn treatments should have cleared up a bacterial issue I would think?

A pic would help immensely ... :wink:

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Post by Glostik » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:36 am

The fungus wont go away. Its the 5th day of maracyn/marcyn 2 and its still there covering his fin.

Theres not really anything protruding in the tank for him to get injured on.

I will try to get a picture asap.
400G Loach Tank - 150G Sump
150G Loach Tank - 37G Sump
75G Planted Shrimp Tank
20G x 2 - Planted Shrimp Tanks
10G Quarantine

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