What is wrong with my sons fish?

[The-Wolf]

Paul. I have never had anyone saying use cuprazin for velvet, have you tried this yourself?

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Yes.
we had some harliquins arrive at work with velvet.
I treated with cuprazin over 5 days and they are all fine now
the dosage was 1ml per 30ltr

velvet is also called oodium and cuprazin states
on the bottle for treating oodium

 

[julibob]

Things do not look good today He is dusted all over and he seems to have a secondary infection of fin rot which is taking hold fast!. I cannot do a water change until this evening as I have builders in putting in a second staircase and there is plaster dust everywhere (I cannot risk this getting into the water )!! A have just added some Melafix and Pimafix to the water and that is all I can do until tonight. If he lives through this then I will be very surprised. I'm off to get some Cuprazin in a mo.

Julia

 

[Gourami Girl]

I've just been on the Waterlife website and you are using the correct treatment- Protozin. It says to do a third of a tank water change before using it.

As has been mentioned, i would increase the temperature a tad and add salt a teaspoon per gallon i think is right.

make sure you vacuum out the gravel at some point in case there is a lot of muck trapped there, you might want to wait 'till after the medicine is meant to have worked, but if you are going to do a repeat dose, do it before you do that.

don't feed for a few days, until he is looking more perky.

don't clean the filter under tap water obviously, i can't remember if you have carbon, but if you do, take that out to prevent all the medicine being sucked up.

make sure there is plenty of aeration going on, put an air pump in if possible, but make sure he isn't going to be blown about!

GOOD LUCK!

 

[julibob]

Well 2 days after doing a 30% water change, adding more salt and re-treating, I found Blackie dead this morning. I shall continue the treatment, but how will I know if the disease has gone? How lond should I wait before introducing another fish?

Julia

 

[black angel]

Firstly really sorry he died.

With the tank now empty the best thing to do is empty it then refill and run it for two weeks with a salt solution of 5 teaspoons per gallon. Use aquarium salt or pickling salt.
Another way is to bin all the gravel and ornaments and use a mild bleach to clean the tank.
Or, leave everything to dry and leave for a couple of weeks and hope the spores die off.
Personally i would go with the salt as you still want to keep your filter running.