Possible Finrot On Platies

[poveyt]

Introduced three platies, and being a relative new-comer, I am being ultra careful. This morning, I have noticed some white edging to the tail fin on one of the females, and some white on the dorsal fin of the other. The tank has been cycled a couple of weeks now, and they share the tank with three neons (I know, neons are not best in the new tank, they were a present!).

Stats this morning are:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: maybe 0.1 mg/l (was at zero before they were introduced)
Nitrate: 20-30 mg/l
PH: 8(ish)

I don't have a hospital tank, so would have to treat the whole tank. Is this a) required (I think so, but could do with some advice) and B) will it re-cycle the tank?

I want to catch this quickly - they don't seem unduely stressed right now and water quality seems good (see above) but the move could have had an impact.

Thanks

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Its best to treat the tank as a whole when dealing with desease, your average finrot meds shouldn't cause the tank to cycle but some can- just check on the back of the packet wether it says it damages filtration bacteria or not .

 

[poveyt]

Thanks for this - I will down the lfs in the next hour or so (some work to do here first). Hoping I have caught this early!

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Good luck with the treatment - if you can get hold of Interpet meds, "Anti fungus & Finrot" by Interpet is good at dealing with finrot deseases and doesn't harm filtration/filter bacteria

 

[blitztidus]

Continuing with what tokis was saying, fin rot can be spread through out a tank, so if a fish catches it, then you remove it before symptoms start to treat the tank, you will notice that more fish will catch it.

 

[poveyt]

OK - I have the Interpet meds on order (none of the lfs around had any in stock!) but in the meantime the infection seems to have cleared up on its own. By this morning, the tail infection looked to have almost cleared by the dorsal infection on the other fish was still there (and she would spread it out) but by this evening, both look clear. I will have the meds in anyway (having ordered it), but should I treat or assume that this was down to stress of moving and leave alone now?