One Mother Of An Emergency

[howard2345]

yo yo yo.

Well I recently set up a quarantine tank for 2 silver dollars who had fin rot, my water parameters werent great at the time. They isn't much fin left.

In the quarantine I have been treating them with Myxazin, its been 6 days now, no signs of recovery yet (water parameters are fine in the new tank).

Anyway, Ive been monitoring the big tank closely (its 350 litres) and 3 more silver dollars have red around their fins. And a little white on the edges.

So I have two options:

1. Quarantine the 3 other silver dollars which are very big in a Aqua1. Probably not enough room for them but easier to treat i suppose.

2. Take the (correct me if im wrong but from my understandng they don't like the myxazin) mountain shrimp, 6xghost shrimp, clown loach, chocolate catfish, boatia loaches, banjo catfish, ottos, few other loaches and treat the whole tank.

Thoughts anyone?

 

[guppy fan]

Well, I don't know if I can be of any help. I don't have any experiance those animals. If I where you I would be tampted to treat the whole tank with a med that doesn't have harmfull effects on the other fish. Over stalking the quarenteen tank might make it harder for your silver dollars to recover. The white edging on the fins does sound like fin wrot, but I don't know about the red. Just my thoughts. I hope it all works out.

 

[joshrm115]

WOW is the hospital tank cycled? if not then you where probably better off putting them back in the main tank and just treating the hole thing. Can you post some water stats. I'm not the best person the ask for advice but when the people on this forum with allot of experience read this that will be the first thing that they will ask for.

 

[howard2345]

WOW is the hospital tank cycled? if not then you where probably better off putting them back in the main tank and just treating the hole thing. Can you post some water stats. I'm not the best person the ask for advice but when the people on this forum with allot of experience read this that will be the first thing that they will ask for.

Nitrite and Amonia are nothing.
Water is 24C.
I dont have a PH testing thing.

Thats for both and yes the quarantine is cycled.

Is there such a treatment that treats finrot but doesnt damage some of the fish I have?

 

[Athena]

Melafix is excellent for helping to repair torn/ragged fins caused either by fin rot or fin-nipping.

It's safe to use with shrimp in the tank, too.

To give you an example of how well it works - I have a female short-bodied convict whose tail fin was in a real mess on Sunday, after being constantly harrassed by the male who wanted to mate. I put her in a breeder tank so that he wouldn't end up killing her. Began treating with HALF doses of Melafix (because there are fry in the tank) - and last night when I got home and checked on her I was totally amazed! Her tail fin is about 90% better - the raggedy, torn edges are looking much straighter and normal, just a little fraying on outer edge - and even where tiny parts of the fin had perished, they have grown back/fused together already. After only a couple of days!! Amazing, I think.

Having said that, I also have a male Betta whose finnage was completely ripped off by a female - and he had less finnage on him that the female did when I rescued him. I treated him with Melafix on and off for a 2 month period - took ages, but then Betta fins are very long so would take longer to grow back anyway.

I'd give it a try - just be careful to follow the correct doses as overdosing can kill the fish (so I've heard). And you can always dose slightly under the recommended amount - it will still benefit the fish. If half doses can help heal my convicts fins in just 2 days then that shows it must be good stuff.

Regards - Athena