Tiggle
Fish Fanatic
I need help to treat a highly contagious but low viralent strain of Flavobacterium columnare which has infected all my tanks.
This strain seems to take weeks to months to kill an infected fish. it has presented as fin rot and more often mouth or body fungus. I had my first out break last summer which slowly killed 4 bettas and alot of plattys. i thought id got the situation under control after many deaths as symptoms on the remaining fish stoped.
I had treated the betta's with tetracycline and 1/5 dilution of melafix, the melafix appeared to slow the disease as did the tetracycline, though neither stopped it. When the weather cooled down things got back to normal. i organised seperate cleaning equipment for each tank so i wouldnt have cross contamination issues again and restocked.
Except now the weather has wormed up again and now it is back. Ive lost one platy to dropsy and a neon to unknown causes but no other deaths yet.
Ive got one betta who first presented with fin rot while in the barracks with two other boys. i treated the tank with 1/5 dilution of melafix and salt. his tail healed. he then, weeks later got a bit too excited at feed time and jumped the barrier, resulting in his neibour taking a big chunk out of his tail. i took him out of the barracks at that point. since then hes developed white cottony growths on this lips and on the outside of his gill plate. Ive treated him again with 1/5 melafix which doesnt seem to have done anything, but it didnt get worse. i then tried aquarium science's multi purpose remedy which did seem to kill it off and again i thought it had gone, but no, yesterday it was obvious it was growing back.
The platy tank, which holds 100L is currently homing 5 female platys, 3 female bettas (who are to be rehomed with some new friends once this is all sorted out) and 4 bronze cories. 2 of the platys look like they're in a bad way. i suspect this is the tank the bacteria has been haboring. 1 of the platys is gasping and has white patches on her back and i think shes stoped eatting. her fins also look rather tattered, though they are regrowing after the tank was treated with multi purpose remedy. one of the bettas is starting to grow suspious looking patches, which look like shes lost scales. she is the the lowest of the betta social ladder, so im not sure if shes been physically hurt (i havnt seen anything other then chasing out of territory) or if shes also come down with the infection.
Lastly, 2 neons have white cotteny mouth fungus. this tank is 60L and homes 9 neons, 1 male platy and 1 bristlenose.
Sorry this is so long, but I fear this is running out of control and im going to loose a lot of fish again this summer. I need to stop the disease in all tanks.
im currently stocked up on:
melafix
pimafix
waterlife myxazin
aquarium science multipurpose remedy
tetracycline - from last year. do not know if its still within useby dates
Ive got one small tank that i can use as a hospital tank if needed, it holds 14L.
What treatments are recomened for each tank?
This strain seems to take weeks to months to kill an infected fish. it has presented as fin rot and more often mouth or body fungus. I had my first out break last summer which slowly killed 4 bettas and alot of plattys. i thought id got the situation under control after many deaths as symptoms on the remaining fish stoped.
I had treated the betta's with tetracycline and 1/5 dilution of melafix, the melafix appeared to slow the disease as did the tetracycline, though neither stopped it. When the weather cooled down things got back to normal. i organised seperate cleaning equipment for each tank so i wouldnt have cross contamination issues again and restocked.
Except now the weather has wormed up again and now it is back. Ive lost one platy to dropsy and a neon to unknown causes but no other deaths yet.
Ive got one betta who first presented with fin rot while in the barracks with two other boys. i treated the tank with 1/5 dilution of melafix and salt. his tail healed. he then, weeks later got a bit too excited at feed time and jumped the barrier, resulting in his neibour taking a big chunk out of his tail. i took him out of the barracks at that point. since then hes developed white cottony growths on this lips and on the outside of his gill plate. Ive treated him again with 1/5 melafix which doesnt seem to have done anything, but it didnt get worse. i then tried aquarium science's multi purpose remedy which did seem to kill it off and again i thought it had gone, but no, yesterday it was obvious it was growing back.
The platy tank, which holds 100L is currently homing 5 female platys, 3 female bettas (who are to be rehomed with some new friends once this is all sorted out) and 4 bronze cories. 2 of the platys look like they're in a bad way. i suspect this is the tank the bacteria has been haboring. 1 of the platys is gasping and has white patches on her back and i think shes stoped eatting. her fins also look rather tattered, though they are regrowing after the tank was treated with multi purpose remedy. one of the bettas is starting to grow suspious looking patches, which look like shes lost scales. she is the the lowest of the betta social ladder, so im not sure if shes been physically hurt (i havnt seen anything other then chasing out of territory) or if shes also come down with the infection.
Lastly, 2 neons have white cotteny mouth fungus. this tank is 60L and homes 9 neons, 1 male platy and 1 bristlenose.
Sorry this is so long, but I fear this is running out of control and im going to loose a lot of fish again this summer. I need to stop the disease in all tanks.
im currently stocked up on:
melafix
pimafix
waterlife myxazin
aquarium science multipurpose remedy
tetracycline - from last year. do not know if its still within useby dates
Ive got one small tank that i can use as a hospital tank if needed, it holds 14L.
What treatments are recomened for each tank?
