sigh, gold nugget. . .

[wataugachicken]

so my gold nugget seems to have fungus. about 4-5 little spots on his body, looks like whitish yellow fuzz. breathing faster than normal and his eyes seem a bit sunken in as well, but belly looks normal. no symptoms on any other fish. might have to search for test kits.
grrr. i have a bad feeling, i've heard a lot of people say they've kept them just fine for about 6 months, then all of a sudden they die. i bought in it july, now it's january. . . i'm not liking the math. never had another incident with the fish before this, always healthy and eating. i don't want to lose my nugget.
started treating with jungle tabs fungus clear tank buddies. they have always worked in the past.

now that i think about it, i probably should have tested the water BEFORE i dyed it green with the fungus tabs. . . grrrr some more.

 

[PPOHolbrook]

SOrry

Sorry to hear but I wil hope for the best. Thats is a nice fish to lose1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bRIAN :sad:

 

[wataugachicken]

still alive, eating. treated with the fungus cure and parasite cure. eyes are less sunken and the fish has an appetite, but now the fungus is gone i can see that there are gray lesions all over the fish and getting worse. seems to be columnaris, not too much of a surprise considering i raised the temp recently and upped my stocking with the addition of the ram. i was hoping everyone would be okay until i could get my new 55g brought home and set up but i guess not.

what do i treat with? maracyn and maracyn-2 seem to be one option, others say terramycin, or potassium permanganate. what to do?

 

[5xevy]

I always hear good things about Melafix. In fact, I have some on hand but have never had to use it.

 

[drgold]

I've triple-dosed melafix to treat a columnaris-type outbreak on rainbowfish successfully. The fish lost color, developed whitish areas on their tail/flanks, and stopped eating. One week of the triple melafix got them back to normal. Previous to this, I treated the same thing with tetracycline and it worked, but returned one month later. I have since installed a UV unit.

 

[legendaryfrog]

are you saying a UV unit prevents fungus?

 

[drgold]

I think what my fish had was bacterial and is prevented from coming back with the UV. I'm not sure what UV does for fungus, but I imagine that it kills it pretty effectively. To my understanding, fungus spreads/kills quickly and my illness took a while to develop. To be honest, I'm not 100% sure what it was, but I at least know how it went away.

 

[DeRo316]

good luck with the nugget, mine's been in the tank for about 10 months, fingers crossed!