nickbuol
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Our Koran Angel (about 1.5-2 inch long) that we got about a month ago has developed some strange desease and I have been unable to idetify it.
We put him in a quarantine tank when we got him and left him on copper per the advice of the LFS. Everything in our tank has been very stable and health for months, so we didn't want to take any chances, he had been on copper at the LFS for 1 week, so we finished him up with just over 2 more weeks of copper. He was doing great! Always swimming and eating.
Then we started taking him off of the copper slowly by doing water changes with water from the main tank. Shortly there after we noticed what looked like a true fungus. It was mainly on his tail, and was white and cotton like. We started treatment with an antifungus and antiboitic (Maroxy for the fungus, and Maracyn for the antibiotic like recommended in the Maroxy treatment booklet). It wasnt' helping. He wasn't getting worse, but he wasn't getting better either. The Maroxy and Maracyn warn about going over 5 days of tratment, so we werre running out of time.
With the advice of another on-line aquarist, and the same advice from the LFS, we removed the fish from the water (no longer than 20 seconds) and scraped the fungus off. We poured some stress coat on the scraped parts, and put him back in the water. After a few more days, he looked OK, and was set for the main tank. That was a week ago.
Things look horrible for him. There isn't any white cotton like stuff, but he has lumps all over the top of him, and the fins on the very bottom, his other fins are whitish and torn looking. It is really sick looking. His coloration (mainly the black) is faded noticably in a couple of spots.
What can we do? He is still an active swimmer, and eats when he can, but being the new fish in the tank, he is still a biut timid, so I fear that things could turn worse very soon and he will stop eating.
The fins look like fin rot, but I've never seen lumps before. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE help!
I've got some photos with parts circled on them at a web site (I hope that this works).... http://www.shutterfly.com/my/os.jsp?...21b3156d64c451
PLEASE HELP!
We put him in a quarantine tank when we got him and left him on copper per the advice of the LFS. Everything in our tank has been very stable and health for months, so we didn't want to take any chances, he had been on copper at the LFS for 1 week, so we finished him up with just over 2 more weeks of copper. He was doing great! Always swimming and eating.
Then we started taking him off of the copper slowly by doing water changes with water from the main tank. Shortly there after we noticed what looked like a true fungus. It was mainly on his tail, and was white and cotton like. We started treatment with an antifungus and antiboitic (Maroxy for the fungus, and Maracyn for the antibiotic like recommended in the Maroxy treatment booklet). It wasnt' helping. He wasn't getting worse, but he wasn't getting better either. The Maroxy and Maracyn warn about going over 5 days of tratment, so we werre running out of time.
With the advice of another on-line aquarist, and the same advice from the LFS, we removed the fish from the water (no longer than 20 seconds) and scraped the fungus off. We poured some stress coat on the scraped parts, and put him back in the water. After a few more days, he looked OK, and was set for the main tank. That was a week ago.
Things look horrible for him. There isn't any white cotton like stuff, but he has lumps all over the top of him, and the fins on the very bottom, his other fins are whitish and torn looking. It is really sick looking. His coloration (mainly the black) is faded noticably in a couple of spots.
What can we do? He is still an active swimmer, and eats when he can, but being the new fish in the tank, he is still a biut timid, so I fear that things could turn worse very soon and he will stop eating.
The fins look like fin rot, but I've never seen lumps before. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE help!
I've got some photos with parts circled on them at a web site (I hope that this works).... http://www.shutterfly.com/my/os.jsp?...21b3156d64c451
PLEASE HELP!
