What to do with australe who has breathing issues.

[Eupterus]

Something has to be done to resolve the australes' issues this week as I will be leaving for three weeks to go to my brothers. Obviously since I live alone, there will be nobody here to maintain a sick tank.
I will be running automatic feeders again and if I'm lucky I 'll find someone to check once or twice while I'm gone.
I'm fairly busy troubleshooting issues such as heat failure causing condensation,organizing and trying to put together more filters.

I've been treating this australe in a sick tank with parasite meds and the breathing issues are not going away. The TLC seems to be keeping the australe alive. I'm not sure what's wrong at this point and if I wasn't leaving, I'd just keep the australe in the sick tank and keep up with the TLC.

It looks like either I have to figure out and solve what's wrong ASAP OR simply put the australe back into the main tank, hope the issue resolves itself OR start re-homing. Given that nobody wanted my free ,healthy kuhli loaches for months of re-homing, I'd say nobody is going to want a fish with issues. So that leaves me with somehow getting this australe back into the main tank.

 

[Linda S]

I wouldn't risk putting a fish with compromised health back in the main tank. better to have the potential loss of one fish in q/t than risking the health of all fish if that one should die and spur an ammonia spike due to decay.

 

[Eupterus]

He was with the others for weeks beforehand and he's had this breathing issue ever since I got him.
Abandoning a fish with issues to die in a small tank that needs water changes while I'm gone is not an option I want to do.