Help! Don't Know What To Do!

[tanzen]

Hi all, if any of you had been following on my other thread about my dojo loach and my ammonia problem, my ammonia's fixed and i've been doing good. But my dojo loach is doing terrible. His lumps have receaded but have been replaced with black discolorations that appear to be UNDER the skin.

I have continued to bacterially dip my dojo loach to help with the lumps and the hole in his head. Tonight was his last treatment and i noticed that he was bleeding. It looked like the blood was coming from his gills. I removed him from the bacterial dip and placed him in clean, dechlorinated water instead of my tank. He's floating and cant seem to stay belly down. He slowly turns onto his side and then eventually upside down just laying there at the top of the water. He hasnt been very active in my tank, he just stays near the surface resting in the tops of a plant i have. He looks like he's really in pain and i dont know how to help him. I am just really worried. i dont know what's wrong with him and i dont know what to do.


Please help!

 

[tanzen]

Water parameters of main tank:
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: <5
ph: 7.4

 

[WILDER]

I would end his misery. He to far gone to save.
Bless him.


Gills can bleed due to bad water quality.
Bleeding gills can be so many things from injury, parasites, bacterial, bad water quality, lack of 02.
As he gone thin, is the spine bending.

 

[tanzen]

He doesnt appear very thin, definately not as fat as he used to be, but not necessarily emaciated. The spine looks pretty straight, near his tail looks a tad bent at times, but i'm not sure if his spine is bending or just since he's an eel-like bodied fish.

edit: his anus is also swollen and red. This is bad isnt it.

I dont really want to euthanize him
there's no way for me to save him?

 

[GuppyGoddess]

I'm so sorry about your fish. . .sounds like it's best to put him out of his misery. I know how hard that is. Last week, I had to do that with one of my favorite fish.

Best of luck to you whatever you choose to do.

 

[WILDER]

Swollen anus can be dropsy to internal parasites.

 

[tanzen]

Well, my loach died today, naturally because i was at school.
i'm really sad, bless him.

 

[tanzen]

If anyone was curious, i performed a small autopsy on my loach to try and discover the cause of his death.
I didnt find any parasites, but the black spots where his lumps had once been were small pools of blood under his skin.

Being that i couldnt find any parasites, i believe that him living in such poor water conditions for so long probably killed him. He may have had a disease, but hopefully not for the rest of my fish's sakes.

 

[WILDER]

Small pools of blood is septicemia beneath the skin.
So sorry bless him.
R.I.P.

 

[tanzen]

I read up on septicemia and i do believe that that is exactly what my loach has died from. He exhibited all of the symptoms, even before i knew anything was wrong.

But i do have a concern, since i didnt isolate him from the rest of my tank until a couple of nights ago, can the infection be spread to the rest of my fish? How would i go about clearing that up? I am really worried about this.

Do you think that i should medicate my tank, even just a little bit, to try and deter infection in my tank?

And thank you so much for taking your time out to help me.

 

[WILDER]

Water changes.
Itr usually sometimes best to treat the tank as the bacteria from the fish can leak into the tank.

Antibiotics though will wipe the benefical bacteria out in the filter.

 

[tanzen]

Well dang, i definately cannot kill off my bacteria.

I'll just do lots of water changes.
Thanks for all the advice

 

[WILDER]

Where knoxville.
Ok good luck.

 

[tanzen]

Oh, knoxville is a city in the US.
Tennessee.

 

[WILDER]

Thanks.
Thought it didn't sound like it was in the uk.