Siamese Fighting Fish With With Patch On Its Back

[wastegate]

I have this fish for about a week now and 3 days ago i noticed a white patch on his back. Best way to describe it is that it looks like he is shedding. I have a small 15 gallon tank with a shoal of 5 neon tetras, pleco 2 guppies and two swordtails. All other fish are perfect.
Iv isolated the fighting fish and traeted with methylene blue over night. My nitraite levels were a bit high but Iv got it back to normal today. Also ph is good.
Please any advice in what to do with my poor fish?

 

[WILDER]

Can you post full water stats please.

it could be anything from columnaris to parasites, ph, bad water quality, wounds.

Any fluffy cotton wool on the fish, or bleaching beneath the skin.
Any signs of flicking and rubbing, excess mucas, darting, red pin prick marks on sores on the fish.

 

[wastegate]

Thanks for the reply. Poor fish didnt make it relly seemed to go down hill fast! It did look a bit like cotton wool but maybe more like when your skin would shed after sun burn....if that makes sence. He seemed to loose alot of scales closest to the affected area and it did look like his back was wounded and with bleachy skin. There was no other marks or red prick marks and he wasn't rubbing or flicking either. Untill today he was eating and swiming just fine.

I feel i didnt act fast enough, as he first seemed to go dark in that area and when i asked about it in lfs they said he might change colour a bit because he was in a new tank and just ajusting to the water. I should of treated him when i first spotted it.

I reacenty removed a castle from my tank and replaced it with some rocks and pieces of wood that i purchesed from lfs. I did boil them for a few hours and performed a 10 percent water change. I noticed my water went a little cloudy after but i guess i must of disturbed the bottom a small bit. I took a water sample last night and NO2 was high hitting 0.5 and pH was at 8.5.

I performed a 40% water change this morning and N02 is 0.3 and pH is at 8.0. Water is still a little cloudy but a lot better that it was. I have had a look at the other fish in the tank and they all seem to be fine. I hope they not gonna catch the same thing my fighting fish had! Any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks

 

[WILDER]

It sounds like columnaris, with the cotton wool, peeling skin, loss of scales, bleaching of the skin.


Bless Him.
R.I.P.

Keep preforming water changes for the next few days.

A link to columnaris.

http/www.flippersandfins.net/flexibacter.htm

 

[wastegate]

Thanks so much Wilder As i said in last post i should of acted faster. I hate to learn fom mistakes but sometimes you have no choice. I am new to fish keeping.

I have not noticed any simular symptoms with the other fish but have noticed that one of my guppys's tail is split. I was down in my lfs today and purched some Melafix so I will be treating the aquarium daily for the next 7 days before i can do a water change. I tested the water this morning and all levels are good. I will prob cut down on feeding for the week too.

 

[WILDER]

Split fins in livebeares is pretty common. They can heal on there own in good water quality.
Just make sure there no signs of infection around the split area, and end of tail fin.

Not all fish tolerate the fish dose of melafix so it better to try half dose first.