Fin Rot Help Needed!!!!

[julibob]

Advice needed please. About one month ago I treated my livebearer tank because the 2 male guppies and one female had finrot I treated for 8 days (taking the carbon out of the filter) with Mxyazin and I thought it had done the trick. Its back in the same 3 fish, but I dont know how to deal with it. I have no other tank to treat them in. I also have 3 guppies and 2 platys ready to give birth, one platy had fry yesterday and I also have 3 older guppy fry. I dont want to put them a risk Should I give another Myxazin treatment? What else can I do. All my water paramaters are fine except a Ph 8.

Julia

 

[WILDER]

If you have no scaless fish add some salt to the tank one tablespoon to 5 gal, retreat again, also you could do a salt bath with the affected fish one tablespoon to a gal, leave them in the salt bath for 5 minutes, keep an eye on them if they start acting weird remove them, do three or more salt baths aday, good luck.

 

[Bignose]

Finrot is usually indicative of a few problems: 1) Water quality. You said "fine" but what are the nitrates? [also as an aside, a pH of 8.0 is fine for all the common livebearers] Just beacause you have 0 ammonia and 0 nitrites does not mean you are 100% fine. Fish need new water every so often. So long as you match the temp. and the pH of the new water, you can do water changes almost as frequently as you want. You might find that smaller water changes, but much more often will help with this problem by refreshing the water overall more.

2) Aggression. Is your tank overstocked? Is there a good ratio of M to F? If there are too many M, they may be too aggressive toward the Fs in terms of trying to mate. Are they the standard variety? or long-finned? or some other decoartive fin that may be just wriggling about too much like food for the other fish to resist. In this case, you may have to rehouse them.

It is important to not only treat the finrot, but to find and eliminate the root cause of the finrot.

 

[bluefire]

ive found that melafix works