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Please help me diagnose
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:25 pm
by Glostik
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:07 pm
by Glostik
plz help
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:37 pm
by Emma Turner
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,
Emma
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:06 pm
by Glostik
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:16 pm
by Emma Turner
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?
Emma
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:35 pm
by shari
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 ...
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:36 am
by Glostik
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.