Black skirt tetra needs help!

[Raechal]

Do you have a plastic gage thing that you can add on to turn the aeration up and down, as if you add meds he will need extra aeration anyway, it's called a gang valve just remembered it.

No, I don't have one. I went to my LFS and they don't have any internal bacteria meds. All they had was melafix and some fungus medicine.

 

[WILDER]

You live in the states don't you, can you get hold of maracyn 2 if not you will have to try the salt baths to see if that helps.

 

[Raechal]

You live in the states don't you, can you get hold of maracyn 2 if not you will have to try the salt baths to see if that helps.

I looked for maracyn one or two and nothing. My LPS isn't that good of a fish supply store at all. And the other fish store is on the other side of town and my mom won't drive me this late.

 

[WILDER]

When you can try and get this.
Maracyn–Two
Manufacturer: Mardel
A broad-spectrum antibiotic for internal or external gram negative bacterial infections which can even be absorbed through the skin. Effective treatment of fin and tail rot, popeye, gill disease, dropsy (swollen body, protruding scales), septicemia (bleeding or red streaks on the body), secondary and internal infections. Effective even when fish won't eat.
Active ingredient: Mincycline hydrochlor.

 

[Raechal]

When you can try and get this.
Maracyn–Two
Manufacturer: Mardel
A broad-spectrum antibiotic for internal or external gram negative bacterial infections which can even be absorbed through the skin. Effective treatment of fin and tail rot, popeye, gill disease, dropsy (swollen body, protruding scales), septicemia (bleeding or red streaks on the body), secondary and internal infections. Effective even when fish won't eat.
Active ingredient: Mincycline hydrochlor.

Yea, I have used that before on my bettas when they had finrot. I think I used Maracyn 1 though maybe. I don't really remember. Bettamomma had to send it to me since my LPS is so crappy at stocking meds.

 

[Raechal]

Update:

His eyes are now bulging out of his head and he has large white patches on his body where it looks like someone literally took an eraser on a pencil and erased his coloring. It's just white. What is this?

They aren't really white, just silver-ish like his normal coloration. Though his black markings seem to have "rubbed off".

I found a tiger barb dead in the 55 gallon with his eyes bulging out as well, 2 weeks ago. What is this?

 

[Raechal]

Looks like I will be up all night keeping an eye on him. I really hope he pulls through but he doesn't look like he is improving much.

 

[WILDER]

A bacteria problem in your tank by the sound of it, to many deseases are pilling up on the tetra not looking good, sounds like columnaris as well in there, i will leave you a link to columnaris to see what you think.
http/article.dphnet.com/cat-02/columnaries.shtml
http/www.flippersandfins.net/flexibacter.htm
Also can you list your stock in that tank to take a look.

 

[Raechal]

A bacteria problem in your tank by the sound of it, to many deseases are pilling up on the tetra not looking good, sounds like columnaris as well in there, i will leave you a link to columnaris to see what you think.
http/article.dphnet.com/cat-02/columnaries.shtml
http/www.flippersandfins.net/flexibacter.htm
Also can you list your stock in that tank to take a look.

The stock in the 55 gallon is 9 tiger barbs and 6 black skirt tetras and three smaller type of tetra I am not sure what kind they are.

His symptoms are:
red line near his dorsal fin
eyes bulging
"shimmying" or shaking, trembling
his mouth kind of looks deteriorated
He can't swim well

I raised the oxygen in the water and I am going to get some meracyn 2 today right before I go to school. I hope he makes it.

The other fish don't show any signs of it in the 55 gallon but should I treat it anyway?

 

[Raechal]

I am thinking it is columnaris and I used the syphon for all the tanks. Would this be contagious? I checked my sister's 10 gallon and there is a cottony growth on one of his ventrals. Should I treat all of my tanks now or...?

 

[WILDER]

The one with all the symptoms sorry don't hold much hope, as he sounds in a bad way, and the med might take a while to kick in, try some water changes daily in the other tanks to see if that helps, good luck.

 

[Raechal]

The one with all the symptoms sorry don't hold much hope, as he sounds in a bad way, and the med might take a while to kick in, try some water changes daily in the other tanks to see if that helps, good luck.

It is day 3 and he is still alive. He is sitting on the bottom most of the time, but now his white/grey patches are kind of flaking and turning a little red. Is this getting worse?

I medicated the 55 gallon where he came from and my sister's 10 gallon since her betta had a little cottony growth on one of his ventrals yesterday.

I am treating the one with all the symptoms in his 2-3 gallon tank. His breathe has slowed down and is not as rapid as it was. The red streak in his dorsal fin is gone. he has lost coloring in his "black skirt".

 

[WILDER]

Red patches are bad as it's septicemia and it's very hard to cure, if it's has progressed, good luck.

 

[Raechal]

Red patches are bad as it's septicemia and it's very hard to cure, if it's has progressed, good luck.

*sigh* He died yesterday at around 5 p.m. Poor little guy, I really thought he was going to make it.

The 55 gallon tank is looking better though, the fish are a lot more active since I treated with maracyn 2.

 

[WILDER]

Sorry for your loss, R.I.P., glad the others fish are ok.