sick fishy?

Question

My fish tank
10 gallon fish tank
2 guppies
2 zebra danios
3 sword tails(1 boy 2 girls)

my boy sword tail has mouth fungus and fungus on his body
on tuesday i put in fungus medication he doesn't seem to be eating. will he be okay and get rid of the fungus
2 blue rams

i don't want to separate him because the medication is for the least a ten gallon tank and i have a ten gallon tank

i didn't put it in on tuesday i meant saturday sorry

i took out the filter and carbon

Answer 1

The fungus on your fish's mouth is known as cotton mouth. Fungus can be effectively killed with a salt bath. Also with a salt bath, you do not need to remove carbon from the filter. Use Aquarium salt or pure salt (epsom salt) with no iodine or addatives. Add 1 tablespoon for every gallon of water. But do not pour the salt in all at once because it will shock the fish. Slowly add it in over the course of 24-48 hours. Thats like putting 1 tbsp in every 3 hours or so, untill you've put in 10 tbsp total. After the water has been like that for 10 days -or- 3 days after all signs of the fungus disappear, do a 40-50% water change.

If you need any help or have other questions, you can email me.

Answer 2

It is one of two things, Columnaris or fungus.

The best way to tell them apart is that columnaris always grows in a very round circular spot while fungus rarely does. Columnaris is also pearly or opalescent white while fungus is a flatter, grayish white.

Columnaris: it can occur anywhere on the fishes body and there have been documented lab cases of it being a systemic, or body wide infection. It's not real easy to treat as it only responds well to a very limited number of antibiotics. The best treatment for columnaris is Furanace. It is the only known antibiotic that will treat both the surface and internal parts of the infection and the only one that will treat it if it becomes systemic. Other treatments are usually very harsh and include copper sulfate, potassium permanganate and Oxolinix acid. Treat with Furanace for 2 weeks to be sure you are rid of the disease.

Fungus - Hopefully this is what you have and odds are good it is. Fungus is easy to treat and responds well to common Malachite green ick medications. There are several fungus medications that also contain Malachite Green and work very well. Treat until you have seen no signs of the disease for 5 days.

Warning: Malachite Green is a known carcinigen so be very careful to keep it off your skin!

Hope this helps

MM

Answer 3

Oh...and one additional thing: did you remove the carbon from your filter before treating the tank? The carbon removes the medication from your tank and you may not have been effectively treating at all if you didn't.
Also there is a disease that affects platys called columnaris. See the link below to see if this what your fish looks like. If so, it's not a fungus but a bacterial infection and you may have been adding the wrong medicine. In that case, the treatment would be Neomycin sulfate, an antibiotic.

Put the filter back in. You want the water as good as it can get without the carbon :)

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0geu8JhfBlGakYAxHJXNyoA?p=columnaris%20platy&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&vc=&fp_ip=CA&fr2=tab-web

Answer 4

isolate the fish. Put him in a different tank and medicate him from there. That way he won't spread it to the other fish.

It's hard to tell if he will be okay or not. He should be okay if it is good medicine and if the fungus hadn't spread too much.

Answer 5

If it isn't eating and you've been treating fungus this long, it's time to do the right thing...
http://www.petplace.com/fish/euthanasia-in-fish/page1.aspx
http://www.aq-products.com/APpro/euthanase.htm