A Bit Of Platy Finrot

[jourdy288]

Okay, I bought a platy from the LFS, and he had finrot I discovered the next morning. So, I ignored it until day four

Day four:
Added a few drops of malachicte green to the tank+some bettafix. WARNINGO NOT MIX MEDS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

Day Six:
A little improvement, tail looking better.

Day Eight: Tail clearing up well!

Day Twelve: All better.

A few weeks later, the platy is looking healthier than his shy friend.

 

[jourdy288]

OK, I went away on vacation(holiday) and someone cared for my fish. My note wasn't clear, and it was last minute, but he did a good job. My platies put on weight, though, and were constipated. My fault. So, I left for 4 days, to another vacation, and nobody ate. Now it's all better. Or, should I say, BETTA!

 

[jourdy288]

Bad news: Two zebra danios died to some disease, where they get more and more skinny until death, over several weeks. One of my white clouds disapeared.

 

[Ukfan]

I had this problem with 4 of my platy which all dided due to finrot and right now one of my platy has finrot which is slowly getting worse. I have treated it with white spot but I don't think its working.

I have several treatments.

With my other platy that died I used a whole bottle of finrot treatment over a period of 2-3 weeks and it

so I dont know what to do

 

[shang hi]

I had this problem with 4 of my platy which all dided due to finrot and right now one of my platy has finrot which is slowly getting worse. I have treated it with white spot but I don't think its working.

I have several treatments.

With my other platy that died I used a whole bottle of finrot treatment over a period of 2-3 weeks and it

so I dont know what to do

with finrot exelent water condition is the key to sucess, if it the water quality dropes your chances of sucseading get dramaticly reduced. melafix will fix fin rot and help the tail grow back.
finrot is a bacterial infection that is usualy caused by poor water quality. weekly water changes of 20% and monitering of the water parments (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, PH, KH and GH) can all help keep a healthy fish free of bacterial finrot (fungal finrot is caused by badwater and a open wond of ripped fin which gets infected and can be treated with Melafix and Pimafix at the same time).
during treating do a 25% water change every other day before treatment. Note: if using melafix and/or pimafix dosing must be done everyday as the medication breaks down over 24hours, a visable result will start to appear after 3 days its like antibiotics, they start to reduce the bacteria after about 3 days.

so it treating for finrot and it is bacterial finrot (and if using melafix/pimafix)do a 50% water change before dosing, remove all active carbon as it will remove the medication rendering it useless, and every other day do a 25% water change. after 7 days do a 25%-50% waterchange and continue dosing is nessary (i always do a second week to make sure all bacteria is dead and it gives the fish a change to get back to health)

have a merry christmass and a happy new year full of good health and opitunitys,
shang hi

 

[jourdy288]

You got it, bad water!