My fish is sick..>Any ideas?

CatDaddy · Post by **CatDaddy** » 08 Nov 2006, 23:57

I just got him almost a week ago..He looked perfectly healthy when i got him...Im gonna post some pictures aand see if anyone recognizes it...He swims around more now then he did when i first got him and he looked healthy

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m202 ... ure025.jpg

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m202 ... ure020.jpg

Thanks for any Help...Nick

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 09 Nov 2006, 11:35

Looks like a skin infection of some sort.

I'd start by changing 50% of the water - and also take a water sample before changes to see what the nitrate, nitrite and ammonia levels are.

If possible (assuming you have a hospital tank available), I'd recommend isolation and an antibacterial medication. However, antibacterials will almost always destroy the good bacteria that performs the biological filtration in your tank, so you'll be cycling the tank if you do this... Which is sort of OK on a hospital tank, but a risk to the other fishes in a community tank. You probably still should medicate, but it's considerably better to do this in a separate tank.

Could you please add your location (at least country) to your profile, as that will help us give you better advice (for example, different brands of medication is available in different countries, so it's no good suggesting a medication that is available in the UK to someone in the US that can't get it...)

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CatDaddy · Post by **CatDaddy** » 09 Nov 2006, 11:59

United states

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 09 Nov 2006, 12:08

If you go to Profile at the top right of the screen, you can add it so that whenever we see your name, we also know where you're from. Since the US is a pretty big place, it may help a bit to add which state you're in too [not in this particular case, but hopefully you'll stay around for a while...

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Mats

jameslewsey · Post by **jameslewsey** » 29 Mar 2007, 19:06

u need to add a small amount of salt that what we do at work to ours