Platy With Fungus?

[fluffycabbage]

Ive had this platy for a long time and yesterday after a water change i noticed she had whiter than normal gills and her breathing was a little laboured. Looked closer and saw a slighlty cotton wool appearance and small blobs in her gills. There are some very very small spots on her body too (much smaller than whitepot) which im guessing is the fungus too?

No other fish in the aquarium have been affected, though this morning a juvenile platy died unexpectedly, with no symptoms.

Ive isolated the platy and she is in water with pimafix (the antifungal one,or is it melafix? whichever, its the antifungal one) - and salt water. water temp at 26 (its 24 in main aquarium), with an airstone.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

It sounds a lot like the platy has Columnaris (which is often brought on by environmental stress);

http/www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/columnaris_disease.php

http/www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Columnaris.html

Its a common aquarium fish disease and you need an external bacterial med to treat it (not a funal one). The Pimafix on its own though might be enough to treat it as it can treat external bacterial infections. If the fish has columnaris there is no need to separate it from the other fish (its not a particularly infectious as long as the root cause of the disease is not still present etc)- the tank is best treated as a whole.

 

[fluffycabbage]

It sounds a lot like the platy has Columnaris (which is often brought on by environmental stress);

http/www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/columnaris_disease.php

http/www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Columnaris.html

Its a common aquarium fish disease and you need an external bacterial med to treat it (not a funal one). The Pimafix on its own though might be enough to treat it as it can treat external bacterial infections. If the fish has columnaris there is no need to separate it from the other fish (its not a particularly infectious as long as the root cause of the disease is not still present etc)- the tank is best treated as a whole.

better not be columnaris! ive already dealt with that and it wasnt nice. surely if it was environmental stress then other fish would be affected, not just one?
anyway, a week later, pretty much all the white stuff in her gills has gone, shes breathing normally, eating, pooing, swimming around. im keeping her in there for now, and gonna give her another week on the pimafix before re-assessing the situation.

thanks for the advice.