A whole mess!?

Question

I have an a 20 gallon tropical aquiruim. I bough females to go with it cause i all i got are males, for some reason only the males survive from the young. So 1 female and about 7 males. So wemt to buy some females. i did but they all died in less then a week. I found out why they were infected with fungus but inside their moutn? the weridsest thing i ever saw. So i though every thing was over. I disinfected the tank with that medication.but a few days later my platy who is a male and quite big had a huge funle infection i think?...... see he has this huge patch on his body but all the scales their are crushed and out of line. It also kind of lookes like the meat of the fish. I treated it again. But now he's getting white dots on his tail. So i raised the temp to about 85F. but my qurintuiine tank is broken and i have o leave him in the normal tank. So any tips. My other fish seem to be ok though........ Dumb petsmart they messed up every thing! My advive local pt staores is where you

buy your fish from they acutlly care cause if they don't they lose their job and their way of making money. While the biger companies employies only care about their pay and nothing else. Please any help would be needed. Oh and those white dots i know are ich. But i also think they might be fungul infections as well because there is only about 3.And they are really big.

Answer 1

It sounds like you've got a couple of differnet things going on. The original infection and the fish where you see a red sore are probably both the same infection - Columnaris. This can appear like a fungus when it first appears (white and fuzzy, particularly on the mouth, earning it th name "cotton mouth fisease"), but on the body it starts fuzzy, but changes into an open red sore with the white just around the edge. You can tell this from fungus because the Columnaris is usually circular and fungus is an irregular shape. This is a bacteria, so if you used a fungal medication to treat the fish, it probably didn't get rid of it. You can treat this with Furanace.

The spots on the tail are probably either ich or velvet. You can identify velvet because the spots are smaller and will have a gold-rust coloration if you shine a bright flashlight on the fish. If you're sure this is ich, raising the temperature will help speed up the life cycle. If your fish can take the additional temperature, you can go as high as 90o If you're using medication for Columnaris, I wouldn't recommend adding a second medication for ich. If the fish you have are tolerant of salt, add aquarium (or other non-iodized salt) at 1 tablespoon per every 5 gallons of tank water. You can raise this to 1 teaspoon per gallon if you don't have salt-sensitive fish. Keep treating for 10-14 days, or at least 3 days after you no longer see the parasites.

For both ich and Columnaris, the organisms that cause these will be throughout the tank, so treating in the main tank will protect you other fish from being infected as well. For some conditions, use of a quarantine tank isn't the best thing for all concerned.

Answer 2

Need to no what fish and how many fish you have? but for now what i advise is that you put the fish in a floating tank as your hospital tank is out of order, this will not stop the spread completely but it will buy you a hell of a lot more time to save the other fish. It does sound like some kind of fungle infection though. hope this helps a little bit with the info we got. x

Answer 3

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Answer 4

It will help us to help you if you told us what kind and how many fish you have. Also what meds have you been treating with.

This is why it is so important to quarantine new fish before introducing them to the fish you already have.