Fish tail turning clear?

Question

I have a 2 inch gourami and his tail is turning clear and he looks sick, none of his fin is missing, his whole body is not missing anything. Now a small spot around his eye is turning white. None of my other fish have this just the gourami, i recently for some unknown reason lost my 2 other red gourami and dont know why. I have two big white gouramis that are doing great. Any ideas. Water levels are all awesome, its a 55 gallon tank with heater, dual filter with media in it.

Its not ick. Ick is classified by a sugar crystal style marking around the area. This is him turning clear. two different things.

Answer 1

it's definately not ick

what it sounds like is case of finrot or also called tail rot
which will make the fins starting to turn white on the edges, and as it progresses it will make the fins look raged

I would recommend using maracyn TC for at least 10 days, do a partial waterchange of 50% before starting treatment with a gravelsiphon, and don't forget to put conditioner in the new water
do partial waterchanges of 25% every 3 days, and dont' forget to take out the carbon filter
once treatment is done, do another 50% partial waterchange, and keep doing regular 25% partials every week
Finrot is usually caused by bad waterconditions



Hope that helps
good luck


EB



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Answer 2

it sounds like ick