Je55*e

The other day I noticed he had a small whitish spot on his lower body. It looked like he had maybe swum too fast past an ornament and scraped his scales. Today, it looks worse and puffy. I think it is a fungus.
What do you think is the best medication to treat fungus for an Oto?

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ps: mods, feel free to merge my threads. I'm sorry, I have to go out soon and thought this title was better, but it won't let me change the other title to it on the earlier thread.

Je55*e

Well, I went out and got some Maracyn by Mardel. It says it will treat and control body fungus "columnaris". Does anyone have experience using this?
The Oto is in a 3g QT tank now.

ray_sj

I've not used Maracyn for fungus, but I have treated fin rot with it. Never had any problems with it affecting my biological filter or any fish.

MelaFix/PimaFix are supposed to help with fungus also, but I don't know how effective they are at it.

Je55*e

^Thanks very much for the input.