Gourami With Open Wound

[s4mmy]

Hi
I really hope some one can help me I have come home from work to find my gourami with an open would on his side. He is about 4cm and this wound is about 5mm in diameter; don't think I have a bully in the tank so I really don't know how it happened - I just want to try and make it pain free for him and hopefully heal it.

Thank you in anticpation.

 

[dthoffsett]

Hello, welcome to the forum, wish it was under better circumstances.

I'm going to move this to the emergency section where I'm sure you will get excellent help.

To help them help you, could you please answer as many of the questions below that you can?

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Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior):

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[Inchworm]

Hi s4mmy

Welcome to the forum!

Does this wound look more like a cut from an injury or just an open sore?

 

[s4mmy]

Thanks for the replies.

I called my fish supplier and he suggested the fish may have got a blister from the heater which made sense to me because that is what the injury looked like - he suggested a medicine which I couldn't get but managed to get Melafix which I have used since last Thursday. The fish had been doing Ok and the wound looked like it was getting smaller.

I noticed the fish swelling on the opposite side but put it down to the injury, tonight he is completed bloated - I don't think this is good he is currently gasping near the surface. My red tailed black shark who is normally quite placid is nibbling at the wound he is not re-opening the wound but it doesn't seem like nice behaviour.

Poor Big Blue he has done so well over the last week am I going to lose him now?

I hate this inexperience I just wish I could make this better for Big Blue.

 

[zoetetra]

have you got a spare tank that you can put him in to treat him until he is recovered as this will help