I got a pearl gourami a while back. unfortunately, the LFS had about 8 of them in a tank with about 20 cherry barbs. All of the gouramis had damage due to pecking. in the time it took me to get mine bagged, I watched a cherry barb take a chunk out of it's back.
I brought it home and tried to baby it. Unfortunately, the wound wouldn't heal. it started looking white and fungusy, and it started getting fungussy tufts on it's 'feelers' so I took it out and started a maracyn treatment in a 10G. it's on day 10 today. I've been doing water changes every couple days, adding a bit of aquarium salt and increasing the heat.
I jsut found that the back wound is still jsut as bad as every. The right feeler is in tact but where it had fat cottony segments before, they've now turned red. The left feeler apparently fell off today. It's about 1" long now, if that.
Can this grow back? what should I do at this point? Should I jsut stop all meds and keep him in pristine water for a few weeks, doing daily water changes and hope he gets better?
I brought it home and tried to baby it. Unfortunately, the wound wouldn't heal. it started looking white and fungusy, and it started getting fungussy tufts on it's 'feelers' so I took it out and started a maracyn treatment in a 10G. it's on day 10 today. I've been doing water changes every couple days, adding a bit of aquarium salt and increasing the heat.
I jsut found that the back wound is still jsut as bad as every. The right feeler is in tact but where it had fat cottony segments before, they've now turned red. The left feeler apparently fell off today. It's about 1" long now, if that.
Can this grow back? what should I do at this point? Should I jsut stop all meds and keep him in pristine water for a few weeks, doing daily water changes and hope he gets better?