Angelfish Fungus Spot

[abcdefghi]

I think my lone angelfish has some fungus on one of his fins, he has had a white spot for a couple days that is fuzzy looking. I am pretty sure its a result of being attacked by the breeding angels before I moved them.

Is the best course of action clean clean clean water? I have rummynose tetras, peppered cory cats and some plants in the tank with him and at the moment nothing I can use to QT him if I should use meds.

I have some melafix, but not sure how that will affect anything else in the tank. I don't mind having to clean the water daily if I have to do that, anything that helps him heal.

Thanks.

[jpappy789]

I would just keep the water very clean and see what happens before adding any meds.

[abcdefghi]

Thats what I had thought, luckily water changes are one of the easiest treatments to administer.

[Star_Rider]

and one of the best treatments for the fish

[KarlTh]

If it were fungus, you'd want to treat at once before the hyphae attacked the deep tissues and killed the fish. Fortunately, it almost certainly isn't. I find these things come and go; I'd worry if it were more than a couple of days.

[abcdefghi]

Ok, so its been about a week and so far no improvement. Is there anything else I can do? I have been changing about 30% of the water every other day. He swims around fine (although has acted a little off since I took away his 2 friends/enemies), no clamping of fins or anything, but there are now 2 white fuzzy looking spots on his fin (I tried getting a picture, but unless I could somehow pin the fish down and spread his fin out its virtually impossible). The white spots are almost on the lines of his fin, and a white area is spreading around it. The spots do not look like ich, they are larger than ich spots and only on the angel and only in the one area.

I don't have a QT tank available, certainly not one that would be anywhere near big enough for him to go into, and the only meds I have on hand are melafix and some for internal parasites.

[DavidZ]

I am not an expert, I did have these problems with fungus on my angels, I started adding salt to the tank.
With extra water changes, it seems to work.(depending what you have in the tank, might be a problem with your plants and corys)

[SchizotypalVamp]

If it is not from an injury, look into columnaris

[abcdefghi]

If it is not from an injury, look into columnaris

I think it is from an injury though, before I moved my breeding pair out of the tank the 3 of them would fight like crazy. Torn fins, looked like scales missing etc, everything has healed up nicely on all 3 of them, just this one spot remains.