Fungus I think

[Katchan]

I have a lyretail swordie who I put in a fry tank almost 2 weeks ago, it was uncycled except for a little bit of media I added from another tank. After she birthed fine I moved her back to the main tank and a day or so later i noticed some fungus on her lip, I decided to wait before I medicated to see if it got better. There was some improvement the next day so I decided against medicating since she seemed to be fighting it fine. a couple of days ago the lip fungus was all but gone but she had some on one pec fin and another spot on her tail, again I decided to watch before medicating and it seems to be getting slowly better again. Tonight I found one of my little kribs with fungus covering the whole of one eye. When it it swims it spirals, possible because of the fungus over the eye, mostly it just sit there breathing slow. Have given them both a 10minute salt bath
Any other suggestions please

Katchan

PS Tank stats are ammonia & nitrite 0
nitrate about <5ppm
ph 6.5
water was last changed saturday

 

[Mr Miagi]

If your treating the tank currently all i can say is keep the oxygen levels as high as possible, and keep stress to a minimum! Hope all goes well!

 

[Katchan]

I'm not treating the main tank that their both from yet. I have just salt bathed them. there are panda cories and a BN in there so I dont want to add much if any salt, plus the only anti fungus I currently have is neutralised by fluro lighting/sun light and this tank gets direct morning light whichI cant stop, I might be able to set up a small 3-4 gallon hospital tank. Should I do that plus regular salt baths?

Katchan

 

[Mr Miagi]

Id deffinately try some way of treating the main tank. If not just to cover the risk of your other fish cacthing what the others have!

Ive never heard of day like affecting meds? My tank gets quite alot of day light, and when i treated it two weeks ago (i think) things went fine! UNless you or someone else can present evidence otherwise?

 

[Katchan]

The medications I have Malachite green, methylene blue and acriflavine which i originally got for white spot (but says for fungus as well) worked fine where I had my tank in my bedroom (infact it took 2 weeks of 30% water changes every 3-4 to get to a tolerable green colour, lighting I was using was normal lamps/globes), after I moved it to my office, some of the fish come down with whitespot again (probably the stress of being in a 20L bucket overnight didnt help) so I treated before I went to bed one night, nice green tank, still the same green when I get up by end of the day water is nearly clear again so next night I treat again, same happens again. I look up info on malachite etc on the net. I find alot of info (ie lots of different sites) saying malachite etc should be used prefrebly with tank lights off at too much of something or other will neutralise the meds and here I am having the tank in direct morning and afternoon sun no wonder the affected fish where getting worse over this week of time.

Katchan