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Fish Herder
well, almost 1 week ago, i had to quarantine jaws, because she had a cottony patch at the base of her caudal fin. she is in my 2.5 gal hospital tank, with jungle fungus clear (supposedly treats fungus and bacterial infections) i tried a straight fungus treatment for 3 days with no improvement, so i switched to the jungle stuff. she still looks about the same (no change in the size of the white fuzzy stuff), but has only been trated with the fungus clear for 2 days).
now sumatra, who has always ruled the female tank, appears to have ick. i pulled her out straight away, but hae not started to treat her with anything (other than a few drops of colloidal silver over her head). she also had 2 areas of lost coloring her anal fin. she is a beautiful purple red. it appeared to be going white/clear in these 2 patches, but she loses her color pretty frquently all over (with light changes, etc.), so i thought nothing of it. now 1 of the patches has completely "dissolved" that part of her anal fin!!!! right now she is in my margarita pitcher (only used for water changes, no tequila in there!) waiting for me to decide what to do with her.
so, i have no other hospital tanks! what do i do?
1) leave the 2 isolated girls as they are and continue/start treatment for fungus/ich?
2) should i siwtch them ad ich resolves quicker at higher temps and i can't heat the margarita pitcher?
3) should i treat the main tank? it has betta girls, danios, panda corys and an otto.
4) what the heck is this dissolving fin thing?!?!?
this is what i get for thinking, "wow, it's been a while since i've had any problems with my fishies!" never again will i utter those words!
thanks for any help!!
now sumatra, who has always ruled the female tank, appears to have ick. i pulled her out straight away, but hae not started to treat her with anything (other than a few drops of colloidal silver over her head). she also had 2 areas of lost coloring her anal fin. she is a beautiful purple red. it appeared to be going white/clear in these 2 patches, but she loses her color pretty frquently all over (with light changes, etc.), so i thought nothing of it. now 1 of the patches has completely "dissolved" that part of her anal fin!!!! right now she is in my margarita pitcher (only used for water changes, no tequila in there!) waiting for me to decide what to do with her.
so, i have no other hospital tanks! what do i do?
1) leave the 2 isolated girls as they are and continue/start treatment for fungus/ich?
2) should i siwtch them ad ich resolves quicker at higher temps and i can't heat the margarita pitcher?
3) should i treat the main tank? it has betta girls, danios, panda corys and an otto.
4) what the heck is this dissolving fin thing?!?!?
this is what i get for thinking, "wow, it's been a while since i've had any problems with my fishies!" never again will i utter those words!
thanks for any help!!