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• Jan 29, 2005

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same injury as the other 3 previous deaths... bloody side under right fin. this one is still alive but breathing rapidly.... I dont know what to do or what to medicate with .... help ... I'll try to get a pic ... I've isolated him... there are only julii corys and pristella tetras in this tank and no sharp edges.

Ammonia, Nitrite 0 Nitrate 20 ppm ... normal

help me ... I'm freakin out here

 

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Here ... a pic ... does this help? I'm afraid he wont make it

 

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kanacyn or maracyn-two should work-Anne

 

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ok ... 5 more hours till the stores open ... GAGAAAA why didt I catch this before youd think id figure it out after the first one .... not number 4!!!!

 

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Looks very much like a bacterial infection i.e. Septicaemia & can only be treated with antibotic's.

Ws this cory ill for sometime? or did it just happen in a flash?

Have you checked Ph?

Have you added anything else to the tank lately?

 

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If it looks like red patches on the side it's septicemia i'm afraid, hard to cure, antibiotics but they will wipe your bacteria colony out in your filter, unless you can issolate the fish.

 

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This has been hapening but since its only one at a time I never caught it before. It seems to come upon them suddenly and previously they were dead before I even saw it.

The pH is constant at 7.2. Nothing new was added recently. Every fish in this tank came from the same store and supposedly the same batch even though as I was setting up I added just 2 or 3 at a time.


I looked it up on fish doc website and i'm pretty sure its bacterial. I got some Marcyn 2 and have started treatment. I'm going to treat the whole tank because probly evryone has got it.

 

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Good luck.

 

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thanks ...

well he is still alive and the sore looks fuzzy now. Hopefully the antibiotics will take care of it. I'm treating this one in isolation as well as the 10 gal he came from.

How do I keep my ammonia and nitrites under control if the cycle crashes? Will water changes be enough or should I use an ammonia locking product?

 

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He's gone

This morning he swam verticaly for a few moments then dropped back down and didnt move.

I'm continuing antibiotic on the tank he came from so that the others might pull through. No one has the ulcers yet but I'm not gonna risk it.

I'm just thankful that this one made it as long as he did so I could figure out what has been killing them.

Thanks everyone for your help.

 

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Sorry for your loss. RIP.