Flexibacter (Mouth Fungus ), Urgent!

[Dubfellas]

My davidsandsi cory has got what i have discovered is almost certainly flexibacter. It has developed more since yesterday and i dont know what to do. I bought some fungus, finrot and bacteria treatment to treat it, but this disease is apparently very contagious so i have removed i from my tank but only to a plastic tub as i dont know what to do with it. Can some help quick! Thanks

 

[Dubfellas]

Anyone?

 

[Wildbetta]

The only thing that really works on columbnaris(flexiobacteria) is a med that will treat gram negative bacteria.  Kanamyacin is one of the ones I would highly recommend.  Watch any other fish from the main tank closely because it can be extremely contagious.  I feel really bad for your cory as the prospect of it pulling through is particularly grim

 

[Dubfellas]

Yh its a goner. I had to remove it from the tank as i couldn't risk any of the others. Im going to keep my eye out and hope the others don't get it. What would be the likely cause of this?

 

[benzenering]

Have you added any new fish recently, like in the past month or so? They could have brought an infection with them. I would go ahead and treat the tank for a gram negative bacterial infection. It usually takes 5 days to treat the tank. Columnaris is highly contagious...I lost 8 fish once in an outbreak (don't panic, hopefully you've caught it early enough).

 

[Dubfellas]

Yes i have added fish, but he wasnt one of them. Im still treating the tank with this: http/www.eshalabs.com/esha2000.htm
Im 2 days into a 3 day treatment. Although after the first dose we did a 25% water change so i maybe do an extra day of treatment

 

[benzenering]

Adding new fish likely introduced the bacteria into your aquarium. It happens to most of us at some point and time or another. Keep up with your treatment. If a new outbreak occurs, I'd get a more definitive gram negative antibiotic. Maracyn 2 is what I used, it is sold in the U.S.A. not sure if you can get it in the UK.

 

[Dubfellas]

If adding a different fish caused this to my cory, would/should the other fish have symptoms? An does that mean some of the other fish ill definatley have something?

 

[benzenering]

Not necessarily, but they could develop down the road. That's why you are treating your whole tank, to kill any lingering bacteria. Then, do a large water change to get rid of the antibiotics. You should not use carbon in your filter while treating, fyi.

 

[372xp]

I have just treated with eSHa 2000 for what could be flexibacter, no noticable changes thus far. It is only affecting 2 female bettas the other fish seem fine. Lets hope the meds work.

 

[Dubfellas]

I have a small internal filter wih sponges and a aqua one sponge filter. Should i remove both and treat again?

I have just treated with eSHa 2000 for what could be flexibacter, no noticable changes thus far. It is only affecting 2 female bettas the other fish seem fine. Lets hope the meds work.

Keep me updated weather it works for you or not, would be interested to know how effective this treatment is if any of mine develop it in the near future so i can grt something els if this is no good

 

[Dubfellas]

This morning i gave the tank its last dose of treatment. A little bit later i noticed one of my wcmm had started to develop the cotton wool on his mouth so iv removed him. Iv removed the small internal filter but have left the sponge filter. Im going to do a 50% water change and then treat the tank again starting from scratch. Does this sound like the right thing to do because im worried now that slowly my whole tank is going to get picked off 1 by 1? HELP!!!