FatFishy
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Hello, I rescued some feeder fish from being turned into lunch or sewage from my local fish store at the beginning of this month and they were in bad shape - the fish had both fungus, bacterial growth and small white dots on their fins consistent with ICH. I treated them all with a cocktail of malachite green, kanaplex, and furan-2 for the first two weeks with water changes every other day in a 10 gal tank.
Week 3-4: There was a noticeable improvement in their health except for one which had a weird semi-transparent growth forming with some bulbus white spots along its body, so I fished it out (let's call him Mango) and placed Mango into a 1 gallon quarentine tank and treated for what I thought was a rampaging fungal infection using API fungus cure. The main tank with the rest of the fish was switched off the antibiotics and given daily doses of paraguard with water changes every 2-3 days. The paraguard appears to be effective against the mild ICH case was reducing the white spots day-by-day.
Week 5: Mango was shedding cloud-like stuff while refusing food and losing weight. He died 4 days after the start of the fungus cure treatment. The API fungus cure did squat against the semi-transparent, cloud-like growth. My mom flushed it down the toilet before I could do any further examination on it, but she did get a few pictures:
water parameters: amonia, nitrates and nitrites are below 0.02 ppm and PH is at 7. The tap water is my area is clean and I just add the proper dose of prime to neutralize clorine and cloramines in the water. The fish are eating flakes for now, but I'll transition them to pellets later.
Two other fish in the main tank are showing early symptoms of the same thing that afflicted Mango and occasionally flash around. The disease appears to move slowly so it seems I have about two weeks before they meet the same fate if it's indeed the same thing.
Any ideas on what this could be so I can save the others? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you!
Week 3-4: There was a noticeable improvement in their health except for one which had a weird semi-transparent growth forming with some bulbus white spots along its body, so I fished it out (let's call him Mango) and placed Mango into a 1 gallon quarentine tank and treated for what I thought was a rampaging fungal infection using API fungus cure. The main tank with the rest of the fish was switched off the antibiotics and given daily doses of paraguard with water changes every 2-3 days. The paraguard appears to be effective against the mild ICH case was reducing the white spots day-by-day.
Week 5: Mango was shedding cloud-like stuff while refusing food and losing weight. He died 4 days after the start of the fungus cure treatment. The API fungus cure did squat against the semi-transparent, cloud-like growth. My mom flushed it down the toilet before I could do any further examination on it, but she did get a few pictures:
water parameters: amonia, nitrates and nitrites are below 0.02 ppm and PH is at 7. The tap water is my area is clean and I just add the proper dose of prime to neutralize clorine and cloramines in the water. The fish are eating flakes for now, but I'll transition them to pellets later.
Two other fish in the main tank are showing early symptoms of the same thing that afflicted Mango and occasionally flash around. The disease appears to move slowly so it seems I have about two weeks before they meet the same fate if it's indeed the same thing.
Any ideas on what this could be so I can save the others? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you!