Cories have bacterial infection again

[Elisabeth83]

My cories had a bacterial infection about 2 weeks ago. I treated them for 8 days with JBL ektol fluid. Their whiskers were growing back and their fins were all mended so after the second treatment time was up I didn't treat again. Now a week later it seems they have it again

I started treatment again today..I'm just wondering how I should go about this treatment? The medication says to treat for 4 days and then change 50% of the water and do a second round if needed. Should I treat for 12 days this time? I'm afraid they might become immune to the medication if I don't treat long enough this time.

 

[WILDER]

Some bacteria infections take longer to treat like us on antibiotics, carry on with the med, you might have to retreat again as well, you stopped the treatment to soon and it returned as it hadn't killed the infection off, if you can issolate the fish you might be beter off using tetracycline,good luck.

 

[Elisabeth83]

Some bacteria infections take longer to treat like us on antibiotics, carry on with the med, you might have to retreat again as well, you stopped the treatment to soon and it returned as it hadn't killed the infection off, if you can issolate the fish you might be beter off using tetracycline,good luck.

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I thought the infection was gone so thats why I stopped It says on the bottle treat for 4 days and if necessary do a repeat dose. I thought because their barbels were growing back it was a sure sign the infection was done.

I ran out of the other medication but I have another one. It's JBL furanol..I believe its actually better for bacterial infections as its for gram negative and gram positive infections whereas the other one was just a type that lowered the amount of harmful bacteria in the tank.

3 out of the 5 have now completly lost their barbels again. There is nothing there and the tips are real red. I feel terrible It's time like these when the thought of giving up crosses your mind.

 

[WILDER]

Sounds like it will do the job, if you have gravel you may want to think of changing it to sand.good luck.

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