neon dwarf gourami

[noonoo1]

Noticed yesterday that my blue dwarf gourami had a very small hole in his tail, thought that maybe he had been in a bit of a fight. He has been eating fine and just went to feed them tonight and noticed

1) hole in tail slightly bigger, now with a white film around it (thinking finrot)

2) has a bulge/sore on his top and lower lip and another bulge/sore also on his body.

As i mentioned above he is eating and these problems have developed in less than 24 hrs. I lost 3 other gouramis (they also had similar sores appear, 2 died with extended bellies and the other had dropsy), they were treated with ESHA 2000, which didn't seem to work - i'm thinking that this last one is going the same way.

Would a salt bath be any good? I have just taken out a carbon pad from the filter to clear out the other medication that i had used. I am worried about what all this medication is doing to the tank.

 

[xXMrBonesXx]

you can try aquarium salt it wont hurt, just make sure you have a back up tank for any scaleless fish you have in with the gourami if any

 

[clutterydrawer]

what other fish are in the tank? also, do you know what is causing this disease outbreak? usually a big outbreak of disease can be traced to something like poor water quality.

My lfs recommended Tetra General Tonic for finrot and other bacterial problems, however it turns your tank bright green, and you shouldn't use it if there are traces of the previous med in there, cos it could react and do bad things.

 

[littleme1969]

Sounds just the same as what happened to my honey gourami.. Fine one day.. sore mouth the next day.. dead the day after. I treated with melafix.. but didn't help. .
Everyone else in my tank is fine.. So all i can put it down to is the adding of 2 pieces of mopani wood one had been in another aquarium .
Just bad luck I guess as my other gourami is fine.

I wouldn't take the risk of medicating the whole tank with salt, especially if you got catfish etc. Only way to go is to remove to an isolation tank and treat there, then at least if it dies the other can't peck at it and increase the risk of catching anything. Plus its way cheaper to treat a small tank with anything

Hope he makes it .. but I don't think theres much hope once its gone that far, as I started treatment straight away when all i noticed was a small sore in the mouth and he still died