White lips on one of my German blue rams

[Beermann]

Quality gets better nearing the end of the video

https://imgur.com/a/IUh4Kh0

I have bacterial and fungal additive I will use but I'll need to remove the carbon from my filters first....will this crash my newly established tank? I don't have the means to quarantine the poor guy

8 rainbow fish 1 seems to have white on its head
2 rams 1 seems to have white on its lips
2 nirite snails

Water parameters are good and I do frequent water changes
0 ammonia
0 nitrite
10 nitrate

Just replaced my preset heater with a new manually adjustable heater and bringing the temp up by 1° every day from 25c until I'm around 28° (82f)
He went to eat and left the food so I placed some for him near the back of the tank and he ate it up.

I'll be using this later tonight to treat whatever it is (early columnaris?) after I remove the carbon. I'll probably keep the carbon inside the tank somewhere so I don't crash my tank. Currently doing some research to see if this is a concern.
I've removed the carbon by cutting the filter and dumping it out but did not rinse the inside of the filter. It was real gunky and smelly I'm sure it's packed with bb. Along with the handful of ceramic rings I used to seed the tank and the little pouch of ceramics I got from the filter when it was purchased....aaand whatever bacteria accumulated in my aquaponic set up.....I think I'll be safe. I'll just keep monitoring intesly lol.

 

[PlantedCommunityTank132]

Hard to tell from the video since the fish is moving fast, but did you look into columnaris?

 

[Beermann]

Hard to tell from the video since the fish is moving fast, but did you look into columnaris?

Yes i suspect this based on google searches and I am guessing it's very early on. Hopefully my treatment will clear it up in about 4 days? remaining hopeful. Water change tomorrow morning before retreating the water.

 

[PlantedCommunityTank132]

What are you treating it with? Sorry if you mentioned it in your post, but I actually didnt read it

 

[Beermann]

What are you treating it with? Sorry if you mentioned it in your post, but I actually didnt read it

Haha all good

 

[PlantedCommunityTank132]

Haha all good

Oh. I thought that picture was your fish food. I guess you just try it and if it doesn’t work you could try Melafix

 

[Beermann]

Its grown. I'm confident it's columnaris. Going to attempt salt bath tomorrow.

 

[Beermann]

Well I gave him a salt bath last night and another one this morning. Did a 40% water change and added in treatment for the appropriate amount of water I pulled out.

White thing isn't getting smaller. He still eats, swims well.

 

[PlantedCommunityTank132]

Columnaris takes some time disappearing, so I wouldn't be too worried if it doesn't go away in one day

 

[Beermann]

There was a white spec on one of my rainbowfish and my ram was not looking too well so I called the store and kicked it up a notch with some proper meds and aquarium salt.

Rid-ich plus was also used.

Thanks for reassuring me.
Current treatment is as follows

- top fin natural herbal remedy for bacteria and fungal infections every 2nd day.
(contains citrus oil, eucalyptus oil, neem oil)

- kordon rid-ich (a proper treatment) every 24hrs until 3 days post disease

- 1 tablespoon aquarium salt. I was suppose to put 2 tablespoons but I don't want to overload the fish. I've spaced out the meds by 4 hours.

 

[PlantedCommunityTank132]

do you have a hospital tank or some other tank with no stocking you could put your sick fish in?

 

[Beermann]

do you have a hospital tank or some other tank with no stocking you could put your sick fish in?

Unfortunately not. But since more than 1 fish is impacted its probably best to treat the entire tank.

 

[PlantedCommunityTank132]

What’s the stocking of the tank?

 

[Beermann]

2 rams, 6 dwarf rainbow, 2 nirite snails. I have 2 filters and it's heavily planted.
Well. Several hours later and He's doing good. Swimming around the bottom picking at the food. The additives and the salt seem to have helped. No longer acting odd. This will be my last update since no one is really chiming in.

Thanks for the input plantedcommunitytank132

 

[PlantedCommunityTank132]

2 rams, 6 dwarf rainbow, 2 nirite snails. I have 2 filters and it's heavily planted.
Well. Several hours later and He's doing good. Swimming around the bottom picking at the food. The additives and the salt seem to have helped. No longer acting odd. This will be my last update since no one is really chiming in.

Thanks for the input plantedcommunitytank132

No problem