So, I brought home a new guppy and tossed it in the guppy tank. Big mistake. She promptly broke out in ich spots. Okay, no biggie, salt and heat. A few days later (now spot-free), she's rocking a white mouth. By the next morning, her fins are white, too.
I go to the store, pick up some Maracyn, which claims to treat Columnaris (which I've tentatively ID'ed this as) and add as directed, along with a dash of Melafix.
By the end of the day she is covered in white/grey, clamped fins (one front one half gone), not eating, and then later swimming vertically. I put her in a net holding her up to the surface so she can get some more oxygen (oh yeah, did I mention I'm still heat treating the tank?) and a few hours later she is looking somewhat improved, though still pretty bad.
Now, in the mean time, a second guppy has gained a milk mustache and a touch of white on one fin.
Question: Is the Maracyn going to fix this? Or should I be doing something else? I'd rather not have the whole tank wiped out.
My current game plan is to do a 75% water change tomorrow morning, then add the day's dose of Maracyn, as well as more salt and Melafix to replace what was removed. Lather, rise, repeat for the rest of the week. This is complicated by the presence of newborn fry in the tank.
The tank is an 8 gallon desktop bowfront (I'm slightly overdosing the Maracyn, with 10 gallon dosage packets). Tank inhabitants are one male guppy and his harem of 4 guppy females, as well as 9 guppy fry, born yesterday in the midst of all this drama. There was an apple snail, but I pulled him out before salting the tank (he's hanging out with my Bombproof Betta™ for the time being). Don't know the exact paramaters, but it's an established tank, and I do a 40-50% water change (with gravel cleaning) at least every other week. Temperature is currently sitting between 86 and 90 ºF.
I go to the store, pick up some Maracyn, which claims to treat Columnaris (which I've tentatively ID'ed this as) and add as directed, along with a dash of Melafix.
By the end of the day she is covered in white/grey, clamped fins (one front one half gone), not eating, and then later swimming vertically. I put her in a net holding her up to the surface so she can get some more oxygen (oh yeah, did I mention I'm still heat treating the tank?) and a few hours later she is looking somewhat improved, though still pretty bad.
Now, in the mean time, a second guppy has gained a milk mustache and a touch of white on one fin.
Question: Is the Maracyn going to fix this? Or should I be doing something else? I'd rather not have the whole tank wiped out.
My current game plan is to do a 75% water change tomorrow morning, then add the day's dose of Maracyn, as well as more salt and Melafix to replace what was removed. Lather, rise, repeat for the rest of the week. This is complicated by the presence of newborn fry in the tank.
The tank is an 8 gallon desktop bowfront (I'm slightly overdosing the Maracyn, with 10 gallon dosage packets). Tank inhabitants are one male guppy and his harem of 4 guppy females, as well as 9 guppy fry, born yesterday in the midst of all this drama. There was an apple snail, but I pulled him out before salting the tank (he's hanging out with my Bombproof Betta™ for the time being). Don't know the exact paramaters, but it's an established tank, and I do a 40-50% water change (with gravel cleaning) at least every other week. Temperature is currently sitting between 86 and 90 ºF.
