White growth

[Lennyk]

 

[MuddyWaters]

From AI:
A white spongy growth on a silver dollar fish could be a fungal infection. Fungal infections are less common than parasites or bacteria. They can be caused by:

• Substandard water quality
• Infected food
• Open wounds

Fungal infections typically appear as:

• White cottony or "furry" growths
• Internal growths

 

[Lennyk]

From AI:
A white spongy growth on a silver dollar fish could be a fungal infection. Fungal infections are less common than parasites or bacteria. They can be caused by:

• Substandard water quality
• Infected food
• Open wounds

Fungal infections typically appear as:

• White cottony or "furry" growths
• Internal growths

Yes that is exactly what it looks like any ideas on a treatment

 

[MuddyWaters]

From AI:

You can treat fungal infections with:

• Increasing overall water quality
• Treating with an anti-fungal product like pimafix in a QT tank
• Treating with a simple antibiotic
• A 7-day course of treatment with Anti-Fungus & White Spot

 

[Lennyk]

From AI:

You can treat fungal infections with:

• Increasing overall water quality
• Treating with an anti-fungal product like pimafix in a QT tank
• Treating with a simple antibiotic
• A 7-day course of treatment with Anti-Fungus & White Spot

 

[BettaFishGirl]

Do you know what the water parameters are, and how big the tank is?

 

[Colin_T]

From AI:

You can treat fungal infections with:

• Increasing overall water quality
• Treating with an anti-fungal product like pimafix in a QT tank
• Treating with a simple antibiotic
• A 7-day course of treatment with Anti-Fungus & White Spot

Antibiotics do not treat fungus. They only kill bacteria, which are different to fungus.

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The fish has a fungal infection and salt is the safest treatment. If you want to use an anti-fungal treatment, that is fine too but no antibiotics.

SALT
You can add rock salt (often sold as aquarium salt), swimming pool salt, or any non iodised salt (sodium chloride) to the aquarium at the dose rate of 1 heaped tablespoon per 20 litres (5 gallons) of water. If there is no improvement after 48 hours you can double that dose rate so there is 2 heaped tablespoons of salt per 20 litres.

Keep the salt level like this for 1-2 weeks.

The salt will not affect the beneficial filter bacteria, fish, plants, shrimp or snails.

After you use salt and the fish have recovered, you do a 10% water change each day for a week using only fresh water that has been dechlorinated. Then do a 20% water change each day for a week. Then you can do bigger water changes after that. This dilutes the salt out of the tank slowly so it doesn't harm the fish.

If you do water changes while using salt, you need to treat the new water with salt before adding it to the tank. This will keep the salt level stable in the tank and minimise stress on the fish.

When you first add salt, add the salt to a small bucket of tank water and dissolve the salt. Then slowly pour the salt water into the tank near the filter outlet. Add the salt over a couple of minutes.

 

[MuddyWaters]

so much for AI .....