New Fish Have Fin Rot!

[koinukun]

Hello all!

I went and bought 2 keyholes for my tank and I'm very sure they have developed fin rot.
The edges on the flappy "arm" fins and their tails are frayed and white. Also at times I've seen them clamp one "arm" fin to their body and just use the one. They have full appetites and are still very active.

My water quality is fine so I'm guessing the cause is because they're new and caught it due to the stress of moving...? I'm starting to do 15-20% water changes and gravel vacs daily now to try and clear it up. All my other fish are fine and show no other signs of illness.

Should I go out and get some sort of antibiotics to treat them or should I see how the water changes and gravel vacs go before that? If I should use antibiotics, will they kill my beneficial bacteria in my filter?

Thank you for any advice you can give!

~koinukun

 

[WILDER]

Its sound like bacterial finrot to me.
Signs are.
White or red edging to tail fins.
Translucent fins.
Red streaking in fins.
Holes in fins.
Fins falling apart, fraying fins.

Are you sure there has been no fin nipping going off in your tank.

 

[WILDER]

Look under finrot.
http/www.fish-disease.net/diseases.htm

 

[koinukun]

I'm quite certain there's been no fin nipping. My harlequins and lemons keep to themselves and the angelfish and ram are too preoccupied with themselves to notice the keyholes.

There's no redness, holes or red streaks on the fins, just tatty white edges on the arms and tail fins.

 

[ALW]

can you quanrantine the fish

 

[WILDER]

I would add a bacterial med, but it always best to issolate sick fish.
Good luck.

 

[koinukun]

unfourtunatly I don't have a quarinitne tank >_<
Money being the reaon why I don't have one...
Can I treat the whole tank with the meds or would that be bad for all my other fish and filter bacteria?

I'll see if I can get a quarinitne tank asap but nothing is really cheap where I am ;_;

 

[WILDER]

Small tanks are not that expensive you can get some great deals if you shop around.
You will have to add the med to the main tank then.
Don't forget to increase aeration with the med as it reduces 02 in the water.
Good luck.

 

[princess-lozza]

Heya, I have the same problem, but with my new Betta. He's on his own and the water quality is fine. There's no redness, streaking or holes but the fins seem to be receeding.

I'm going out today to get some fin rot stuff, so what would you reccomend?

 

[bloatedguppy]

unfourtunatly I don't have a quarinitne tank >_<
Money being the reaon why I don't have one...
Can I treat the whole tank with the meds or would that be bad for all my other fish and filter bacteria?

I'll see if I can get a quarinitne tank asap but nothing is really cheap where I am ;_;

Personally it would be better to treat the whole tank. I'm having the same problem right now as a minor case of fin rot brought by my new swordtails in my tank. Even though my water conditions seems fine it spread a little so I got some meds that pretty stong from my lf's and it turns the water a little bit yellowish-green but my fish seem to be normal appetite and what-not. Its is very important to treat the fish as soon as possible this helps with fin regrowth, Like my young pearl gourami showed signs of fin rot 3 days ago and it looked bad yesterday but today it looks like the fin is already regrowing today. Keep in mind that some meds will make your fish look worst like fizzy fins but that mostly means its working. The thing Fin-rot taught me is don't take your tank for granted, quarintine new fish, and do constant water changes, right now it has me depressed as my fish look bad but it seems to be healing in only 2 days of meds.

 

[Mikaila31]

A quarintine tank doesn't have to be anything fancy. A 10 gal plastic rubbermaid bin will work fine. Add a HOB w/ some mature media(or if your really cheap a sponge filter) and a submersible heater.

 

[koinukun]

I'll treat the whole tank then. I've been doing a water change and gravel vac every day to try and help and I think it has lessened the problem. There isn't as much white edging or tearing on the fins as there used to be.

What I'm really worried about is if antibacterial medications kill the filter bacteria too? The last thing I want is to uncycle my tank >.>
Will it be ok?

~koinukun

 

[WILDER]

Broad spectrum antibiotics can wipe the beneifical bacteria out in the tank.