Can’t get a handle on infection

[Sponeil]

Good day all. Have a question here on a problem I’ve had now for over a week. Fish originally came down with ich and I treated it. From what I can tell, it’s cleared up however they developed a secondary infection and I’ve been trying to treat and it seems nothing has worked. This far I’ve lost 2 tin foils, 3 clown loach, 3 bala sharks, and an electric blue. Remaining fish other than a tin foil seem fine and are eating. Water levels are at 0.00 and ph around 7.3. Medication I’ve tried is Melafix, fin and body cure, and now I’m on maracyn (day 2) My tin foil still hasn’t shown any improvement...swims like he’s lost, won’t eat, and eyes still looking a bit cloudy. Fins are a tad ragged too. Any ideas as to what the heck this might be??

 

[Barry Tetra]

Have you try 50% daily water change?

 

[Sponeil]

Have you try 50% daily water change?

Hi Barry. I just did a change 2 days ago however originally no as the rep at the store I buy fish from told me not to for at least a week.

 

[Colin_T]

the fish is covered in excess mucous, which is usually caused by poor water quality or chemicals in the water.

do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for 2 weeks.
make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.

if you ever have to treat whitespot, just raise the water temperature to 30C (86F) and keep it there for 2 weeks. then lower the temp. the heat will kill the parasites and you won't need medications.

What to do if your fish gets sick

If your fish ever looks sick or unwell, then the following steps might help. Test the Water and Clean the Tank. Test the water quality for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH and write the results down in numbers. Check it for general hardness (GH) and carbonate hardness (KH) too if you can, but...

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[Sponeil]

Hi Colin. Thanks for the input. So you believe the excessive meds caused this adverse reaction? Advice noted, water change complete, and carbon back in. Hopefully they clear up. Is there anything else you can think of that I should do? Forgot to mention, tank is established and running fluval FX4 filter. Thanks again.

 

[Colin_T]

It is either an overdose of chemicals or poor water quality.

Clean the filter, wash media in a bucket of tank water and re-use it.

Maracyn is an anti-biotic that wipes out filter bacteria so your tank might cycle again.​

Check and monitor the ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH levels and make sure there is 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, less than 20ppm of nitrate, and the pH isn't too extreme.

Anti-biotics should only be used on known bacterial infections that have not responded to normal fish medications. Improper use or mis-use of anti-biotics causes drug resistant bacteria that can kill fish, birds, animals, reptiles and people.