My black moor may be hurt?

Question

my new black moor's fins are slowly deteriorating
this is my second one after my last one died after eight great years please help this one

Answer 1

It really sounds like you have a case of fin rot in the tank. Fin Rot, or peduncle disease is caused by one of several different species of Cytophaga bacteria. Another name for the disease is coldwater disease because it's more often found in coldwater. It does not do well in warm, tanks, so get your heat up to 80 - 82 while you are treating.

You need to treat the entire tank, not just the one sick fish so the first step is to remove the carbon from your filter and do a large (50 - 60%) water change. Then turn the temp up and tret with a gram negative antibiotic. Be sure to use gram negative as a gram positive anitbiotic will have very little effect on the tougher gram negative bacteria. Furanace is a very good treatment option if you can get it. Also Sulfamerazine, Oxytetracycline or Sulfisoxazole. That's not a complete list, just a few good ones. Treat the tank for a full 7-10 days to be sure you have killed off the bacteria in the fishes system, even if you see improvement before then.

Dont' put the carbon back before the treatment is finished, it will remove the medicine from the water.

Be aware that this treatment will also kill off the good bacteria in your tank and you will get an ammonia spike, so after treating for 3 days begin to do 25-30% water changes every day until the ammonia cycles back down.

This treatment will work, but it's lots of work.

Best of luck to you.

MM

Answer 2

fin rot dude