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My favorite VT boy Han is sick. Very sick.
About a month ago I noticed, for whatever reason, one of his ventrals was missing. I thought that was very odd..as I didn't see it lying on the floor of the tank, in a plant, or floating around anywhere. It was like it just dissapeared.
Another 2 21/2 weeks went by and he still had the one ventral..no sickness, no irritation or redness at the spot where the other should have been (I had been watching it). Then one day I went to feed them and
the other one was gone..it was there the day before then over night just vanished without a trace.
So after this one dissapeared his belly looked a little swollen right where the ventrals should have been. So I treated him for a week with Tetracyelene and some IAL. Everything seemed to be fine after about a week so I discontinued the medications and just left the IAL in there.
Friday when I came in to work I found him all bloated up (if he turns or bends his body the scales appear to stick out..but only when viewed from above..from the side they look normal), the area where his ventrals should be attached was all swollen and irritated looking, and he has some stringy/poofy looking stuff (that I assume is/was fungus) hanging from one of his pectoral fins. There is none, however, at the sight where his ventrals should be.
I got some Maracyn2 and started treatment Friday. I also added in some Methylene Blue as well. I did the double dose the first day with the Maracyn2 then went to the single daily daily dose (tommorrow is the last day of Maracyn2).
Today when I came in his right Pectoral fin is almost completely gone (there's just a tiny remnent of it left), and the left one is nothing more then a mere stick...it's kinda raw looking (has a red appearance) with some fuzzy stuff clinging to it. He's even more swollen and his scale are slightly sticking out...again only when viewed from above though..can't tell from the side. He doesn't have the rest of his fins clamped up at all..except his dorsal..and that's mostly because he's hanging out at the water line.
He's just kinda chillaxin, and hanging out at the top most of the time..but he does act quite aggitated ever so often and swim thrashing about..although that could be just because it's hard to swim without the use of any pectoral fins.. he's still eating though, fed him some FD BM earlier.
Pictures are pretty crappy..as to get close enough to get a detail picture it makes him move away..so most of these are taken with him moving..which he's really still til I aim at him
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(can see no ventrals or pectorals)
(can see no pectorals and if you look close in the reflection up top..you can see the stump of one pectoral...and can clearly see the lump where the ventrals should be attached)
(Can see the lump again plus the raw edge of the pectoral)
(is blurry but you can see the red raw edge of the pectoral..plus the stringy/poofy stuff on the end hanging off)
(is blurry but you can see the red raw edge of the pectoral..plus the stringy/poofy stuff on the end hanging off)
(these are very blurry but you can see how swollen he is from a top view..and you can slightly make out his scales sticking out..but like I said..they aren't like OMG sticking out though
)
*sigh* I dunno what else to do for him at this point really. He's got Maracyn2, Methylene Blue, salt, and IAL in his tank right now...and some Naladine (it's for dropsy and bacterial infections).
About a month ago I noticed, for whatever reason, one of his ventrals was missing. I thought that was very odd..as I didn't see it lying on the floor of the tank, in a plant, or floating around anywhere. It was like it just dissapeared.
Another 2 21/2 weeks went by and he still had the one ventral..no sickness, no irritation or redness at the spot where the other should have been (I had been watching it). Then one day I went to feed them and
the other one was gone..it was there the day before then over night just vanished without a trace.So after this one dissapeared his belly looked a little swollen right where the ventrals should have been. So I treated him for a week with Tetracyelene and some IAL. Everything seemed to be fine after about a week so I discontinued the medications and just left the IAL in there.
Friday when I came in to work I found him all bloated up (if he turns or bends his body the scales appear to stick out..but only when viewed from above..from the side they look normal), the area where his ventrals should be attached was all swollen and irritated looking, and he has some stringy/poofy looking stuff (that I assume is/was fungus) hanging from one of his pectoral fins. There is none, however, at the sight where his ventrals should be.
I got some Maracyn2 and started treatment Friday. I also added in some Methylene Blue as well. I did the double dose the first day with the Maracyn2 then went to the single daily daily dose (tommorrow is the last day of Maracyn2).
Today when I came in his right Pectoral fin is almost completely gone (there's just a tiny remnent of it left), and the left one is nothing more then a mere stick...it's kinda raw looking (has a red appearance) with some fuzzy stuff clinging to it. He's even more swollen and his scale are slightly sticking out...again only when viewed from above though..can't tell from the side. He doesn't have the rest of his fins clamped up at all..except his dorsal..and that's mostly because he's hanging out at the water line.
He's just kinda chillaxin, and hanging out at the top most of the time..but he does act quite aggitated ever so often and swim thrashing about..although that could be just because it's hard to swim without the use of any pectoral fins.. he's still eating though, fed him some FD BM earlier.
Pictures are pretty crappy..as to get close enough to get a detail picture it makes him move away..so most of these are taken with him moving..which he's really still til I aim at him
.(can see no ventrals or pectorals)
(can see no pectorals and if you look close in the reflection up top..you can see the stump of one pectoral...and can clearly see the lump where the ventrals should be attached)
(Can see the lump again plus the raw edge of the pectoral)
(is blurry but you can see the red raw edge of the pectoral..plus the stringy/poofy stuff on the end hanging off)
(is blurry but you can see the red raw edge of the pectoral..plus the stringy/poofy stuff on the end hanging off)
(these are very blurry but you can see how swollen he is from a top view..and you can slightly make out his scales sticking out..but like I said..they aren't like OMG sticking out though
)
*sigh* I dunno what else to do for him at this point really. He's got Maracyn2, Methylene Blue, salt, and IAL in his tank right now...and some Naladine (it's for dropsy and bacterial infections).
..so a large chunk that usually doesn't come out came out this pay cycle (about $200) and my budget isn't quite used to that..so I'm going to have to re-adjust my budget during the next pay cycle to accomodate that).
Sadly Han just was too sick to pull through. He tried though..eating right up until the end. This morning when I came in I found that he had passed.
