Urgent -What's Best Treatment For Fin Rot And Bactreia?

[fishnovice]

MODERATORS -sorry for reposting this but need to order meds online ASAP today for delivery before Easter, otherwise long walk and bus ride to nearest petshop, if they have any meds

Basically I was forced to take in several sick fish from filthy tank late at night and had no alternative but to put them in with my own fish in several tanks. Stupid mistake I know as I've now exposed all my healthy fish to disease. Sick fish included 2 gourami with fin rot and possible bacterial infection and plec that seems healthy but may have white spot. Angelfish died after a few hours in my livebearers tank and since then I've lost a guppy and a platy in a week.
Never had to deal with fish disease before and confused by all the meds available -what do you recommend?
Melafix
Primafix
Both Melafix & Primafix
King British anti fin rot
Myxazin fin rot
eSHa -anti fungus finrot and bacteria

Not working so the cheapest meds that will cure sick newcomers and protect my own fish from catching diseases please. I have the following:


TANK 1 - Guppies/mollies/ swordtails/platy/baby bristlenoses 1.5inches/angelfish
TANK 2 - Goldfish/weatherloach/unknown new plec with possible whitespot
TANK 3 - Hospital tank with 2 gourami that have finrot and were very ill

 

[fishnovice]

Please advise me I have to order online before 4pm to get these meds before Easter. Otherwise they won't be delivered till next week which may be too late

 

[fishyfeet]

In my opinion and ive used most of these over the years the bottom two are the only two worth attempting, the others are more general meds, it may be advantages to add aquarim salt too.

Myxazin fin rot
eSHa -anti fungus finrot and bacteria

 

[WILDER]

Myxazin by waterlife.
Esha 2000.

 

[Defiance]

Hiya,
I assume your not in the UK ........

Had ICH a while back, i dashed to pets at home as it was the nearest lfs, grabbed the cheaper Interpet Anti White-Spot, treated and dosed as said, worked great

Now they do the Anti Fungus & Finrot, also cheaper than other makes, not used it in my tanks, but did use it in a tank at my moms, again it worked great, and again was on the cheaper scale lol

So to me in all honesty, grab what you can afford, as long as it's not a no-name clear bottle with a sellotaped on hand written label with no active ingredients being quoted

anti ws contains usually Formaldehyde 5.000mg and Malachite Green Oxalate 47mg (or thereabouts)

anti fungus/finrot contains Phenoxyethanol 40.000mg (again, thereabouts)

Tony

 

[fishnovice]

Thanks |I'll order online now

 

[WILDER]

Good Luck.

 

[VickiandKev]

Furanol 2 you can buy online (just search it - I bought off a reptile site I think) ... and that's a really good anti-bacterial med but it will wipe out your filters I believe.

Have you added salt to your tanks? Personally the first thing I do when there's problems is a 50% W/C and then add aquarium salt at 0.27g per L (this is safe even for loaches), then cut down on feeding if you can to keep the tank as clean as possible. Often sick fish will have a reduced appetite too so you find your normal feeding regime is really dirtying the tank.
Also increase aeration as much as possible - if you're worried this is bacterial I wouldn't change the temperature of the water though.

IME most of the other anti-bacterial meds marketed are reasonably useless - JBL Furanol and Furanol 2 are the only ones worth using.
I've tried several with pretty rubbish results.

I can send you some Furanol 2 (or you can collect if you're near) if you have trouble obtaining it.

Sorry to hear this has caused you problems - I really hoped you'd been lucky when we last spoke!

 

[fishnovice]

Hi Vicky thanks for the offer of medication. I'll bear it in mind if things get worse but will wait and see. Might cause more problems if it kills my filter bacteria and causes ammonia spike. Livebearers tank is heavily stocked and I am running two filters to keep water OK...but if filters cease to do their job I'm in big trouble!
I plan to move them to a 3ft tank over Easter anyway.

Ordered the ESHA antifungus and antibacterial as 2 others recommended it earlier.I had to make sure order was placed for pre Easter delivery, otherwise I'll have to wait till next week. My own fish are /were all healthy and are still fine =mollies and goldies eating like pigs! The new plec seems OK though not sure if white patch on head is whitespot. It's only the gourami in hospital tank that have bad finrot. I was told that gourami were ill and previous owner advised me to keep them separate but their tankmates may have caught the same disease and passed it on to my fish. On the bright side,all refugee fish except angel that died the first night are still alive 10 days later and gourami are now coming up to the surface. They even ate some food today.
Fingers crossed!

 

[WILDER]

I agree about some of the bacterial meds in the uk. They are pretty unless.
But once bacterial infections advance there hard to cure.

JBL Furanol a good med but it does wipe the beneifical bacteria in the filter. So I would only use it in isolation.