what is the best way to cure fin rot????????

Question

what is the best way to cure fin rot????????

Answer 1

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 treat with a gram negative antibiotic. Be sure to use gram negative or broad spectrum antibiotic 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 Maracyn 2, 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.

Don't 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.

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Answer 2

Usually fish fin rot it's a chronic and indirect symptom - due to other health problem the body system reduces or stops the maintenance of secondary or less vital organs. I think you need to diagnose the disease behind it. Check the gills aspect, changes in colour, behavior abnormalities (swimming, feeding, activeness) and the water parameters - most of the diseases in fish are related to water quality. Good luck!

Answer 3

1. up your tank maintenance, usually fin rot is a consequence of bad water quality, what are your tank stats, such as ammonia (should be 0), nitrate (should be 25ppm or under) and nitrite (should be 0)? make sure your tank is not overstocked.

2. you can get medication for the treatment of fin rot/body fungus from petstores, as to what make depends on your country. i personally have King British and Melafix in my fish first aid kit.

Answer 4

http://www.golffishinfo.com/aliment.1.htm#finrot
DO NOT get any new fish!
Go to nearest pet shop and get tablets..I got mine at Walmart!
You treat for a week, directions on package! I just had the same thing and all my fish died,got news ones now and everything is fine,It's been 2 months!
VERY GOOD SITE!
good luck

Answer 5

isolate the fish and treat the whole tank with that blue stuff you get from the pet shop