Columnaris Disease---Treatment of the source...

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Columnaris Disease.... I am recovering from having lost fish that I have had for at least 8 years. I had started this thread in Cichlid-Forum.com and I will never post there ever again...there are alot of people there who know beans.

http://cichlid-forum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=120030

I need help in treating my 180 gallon tank to get it ready for fish again. I have not done anything to the tank since I removed all the fish from it on August 12th. I was only able to save my Breeder Nicaraguense Pair I lost everything else. Please help me out !!!
 
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killerchevelle said:
Columnaris Disease.... I am recovering from having lost fish that I have had for at least 8 years. I had started this thread in Cichlid-Forum.com and I will never post there ever again...there are alot of people there who know beans.

http://cichlid-forum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=120030

I need help in treating my 180 gallon tank to get it ready for fish again. I have not done anything to the tank since I removed all the fish from it on August 12th. I was only able to save my Breeder Nicaraguense Pair I lost everything else. Please help me out !!!
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My fishes had columnaris before..Columnaris causes moth rot..In my past 10 years of fish keeping, I had many times encountered columanaris..I just used an antibotic, Maracyn where you can buy at Petsmart..Cleared it right up..No big deal for me if colunmaris gets in mytank..Very common disease..

From my experience, Melafix is way too weak to take out columnaris..As a matter of fact, my bala shark had mouth rot caused by columnaris last week..I put it in a hospital tank with an antiboitic, tri sulfa since maracyn was sold out..His mouth is cured and now with the general population..
 
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My 2 nics are in a 20 gallon hopsital tank and are back to 100% :clap:

I didn't do anything to my 180 other than take the fish out. Bleach ??? Are you serious ??? What can I do and not destroy the good bacteria ???
 
columnaris can sometimes be extremely lethal but usually it is a slowly progressing easily treatable disease. i recently cured three fish of it with just melafix and water changes. also i lowered the temperature because the bacteria reproduce more rapidly at higher temperatures.

by the way, the people at cichlid-forum were very knowledgeable. i read that whole thread and if anyone was at fault, it was you. you kept begging for advice but you didnt take it. you bought 5 different medications? thats rediculous. its amazing to me that you were able to keep those fish alive for 8 years. youre just bitter because you killed all of your fish.
 
What advice did I not take ??? I did 2 different kinds of treatments to 2 separate hospital tanks. The 1st was one I did was the maracyn and maracyn 2 to the nics.... and that worked. The other treatment in the other tank didnt do anything to the diesease and the fish died. I had to try something else because 3 out of 7 fish had died already. I bought 5 different medicines because I didnt have any... I made a medicine box in the event something happened in the future I didnt use them all !!! That site sucks...

Travis--- Your sticking up for it because you are probably a member too.
 
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well i might have missed it but i dont think anybody told you to get 7 medications.

heres the list:

melafix
pimafix
Maracyn
Marycyn two
Erythromycin
Tetracycline-Hydrochloride
methylene-blue

im pretty sure that doses of all those medications would kill a healthy fish. you obviously did not do good research.
 
Look travis.... If you dont have helpfull information to help answer my inital question then I think you should keep your oppinions to yourself !!! I didnt kill my fish the diesease did...
 
Okay, let's settle down. PM's have been sent.

Killer, what is the exact status of your tank right now? How long has it been empty?

Just for info, without accusations, some medicines can hurt some fish. It might even be caused by mixing them or treating with a med that is not for the problem.
 
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