Anybody had success with Pimafix??

[AquaPony]

I recently added some guppies to my tank. My tank had perfect levels, was cycled but the guppies started showing a white area that has gotten worse. My LFS gave me Pimafix and I am on my second day of using it.

Should I use it for the full 7 days? Has this worked for anyone?

 

[dbosman]

I recently added some guppies to my tank. My tank had perfect levels, was cycled but the guppies started showing a white area that has gotten worse. My LFS gave me Pimafix and I am on my second day of using it.
Should I use it for the full 7 days? Has this worked for anyone?

Even if you suspect it isn't working, use it for the full treatment cycle. There is little worse than partially curing a disease.
Please quarantine any future new fish for at least four weeks. It would have been far easier to treat a small quarantine tank, than your community tank.

 

[AquaPony]

Ok, I will keep going. I hope it doesn't kill my fry. Such a bummer when they get sick like this. I feel like I'm watching them die slowly. But who knows maybe it will work. I post result here.

 

[knight4th]

Pimafix is a good supplemental treatment i would not use it as the only treatment. To truely trat a fish you need to be able to figure out what it has. Pimafix is for treating fungal infections, and true fungal infections in fresh water aquaria are very rare. More often then not what youu think is a fungal infection is actualy a bacterial infection. Can you upload pics to help identify. Are the white spots patchy, does it look like a fuzzy growth need more details to be certain. But typically when my clients come to me and say my fish has white patchy areas more often then not its columnaris (Body fungus) which is not really a fungus but a gram positive bacterial infection. And in that instance pimafix is not going to work. You would need to treat with a gram postive antibiotic like erythromycin

 

[echoofformless]

I use both Pima and Mela at the same time to make sure I'm covering all bases.

But like the aforementioned - neither of these really works the way that a proper medication does. They're more like balms. Think of it like a cut - you can use Neosporin to prevent infection and to speed healing, but if you have a serious infection you need an antibiotic.

 

[AquaPony]

I tried to post up the best pics I could take. If you can't see them here, then check out my album "sick fish" . I hope you can tell what it is by the pics.
My LFS does not sell antibiotics. I am looking at my Stearn&Fost catalogue, should I get the Maracyn for gram+ or the API EM Erythro?
I have to leave town on Sat so my plan so far is to order AntiBi's and keep the Pimafix dosing until Friday. Friday night I will do a 30% water change.
When I get back 4 days later I will have the Antib's here by then and I can start that.
Does that sound like a good plan?

Is it not worth it because the fish will be dead by the time I return? If so, should I put them out of suffering now?
Ugh this sux. I just started this hobby and I have no idea what to do, please help.
I have 2 guppies with no sign of problems and 4 fry happy as can be.
Will the AntiB's hurt my fry and plants?
Thanks for advice...

 

[AquaPony]

well all the fish that had this thing are dead. so the pimafix really didn't do anything. As knight and echo suggested, the infection was prolly to bad for the pima to work.