Poor Gourami!

[masted]

Please advise me on what has happened to my Dwarf Gourami which has just died. The attached picture isn't nice viewing but shows the problem. In just a few days he detoriated - after I noticed a scab-like protrusion which kept growing and ended up as a puffy, reddened mass. I do regular water changes and the test results are all ok. I didn't know how to treat it and was hoping it might just be a wound, until today. I have another Dwarf Gourami who looks like he might be getting it - theres a tiny protrusion on his side. can he be saved?? please help

 

[kgrehm]

Looks like it could be an ulcer or some sort. How long has it been like that before he died. Try getting some different medications from a lps. Couldnt quite tell you the best because they have so many for the same diseases. Anyone would help at this point.

 

[Tenko]

Mine died after getting a type of ulcer on his side. I tried Melafix and Myxazin, as well as lots of water changes inbetween medication, but nothing worked. His problem was more of a sore protrusion, like a red lump.

One lfs told me to net him and put a drop of medication on the infection, I even tried that. Not nice watching a fish slowly die without being able to help.

 

[tstenback]

Looks like furunculosis. Common in recent gourami population. Often affects gouramis and other anabantiods.

 

[masted]

I'll definitely go out and buy some kind of treatment to see if i can save the remaining gourami, but i don't know what exactly to buy . the picture shows how it looked at the end but it spent a few days looking like a wound, which protruded a bit, with a brown-ish cover, like a scab. my surviving one has now got the same thing growing out of his side.

 

[appleblossom]

Poor gourami I hope your remaining one gets better!!

 

[tstenback]

Treatments for
furunculosis (aeromonas - open lesions)
Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Furan-2, TC Capsules, EM Tablets, Triple Sulfa and Jungle Fungus Eliminator, Binox

HTH