Re: Veiltail looks a bit hurt - advice?

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mirror site. http://www.mu.edu/~buxtoni/puregold/disease/disease.htm
It is an infection, bacterial.. columnaris. probably lost slime coat in area, then
bacteria got in. treat topically with antibiotic creme, feed antibiotic food.
bring salt up to 0.1%
how old are your water test kits?
Ingrid

Jan Sacharuk > wrote:
The wound looks white in the centre, and a bit puffy and raw, and red around the
sides.

>The tank also seems to have a bad problem with algae, which leads me
>to think that the nitrate levels would be a little higher if they
>weren't taking that and the phosphates out of the water. The live



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[Jan Sacharuk]

In article >, wrote:
> mirror site. http://www.mu.edu/~buxtoni/puregold/disease/disease.htm
> It is an infection, bacterial.. columnaris. probably lost slime coat in area, then
> bacteria got in. treat topically with antibiotic creme, feed

Quick follow-up - how many of those symptoms is it necessary to see to
diagnose as columnaris? The only thing that may be close is the sore,
but none of the other symptoms are showing.

JS

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[Jan Sacharuk]

In article >, wrote:
> mirror site. http://www.mu.edu/~buxtoni/puregold/disease/disease.htm
> It is an infection, bacterial.. columnaris. probably lost slime coat in area, then
> bacteria got in. treat topically with antibiotic creme, feed antibiotic food.
> bring salt up to 0.1%
> how old are your water test kits?
> Ingrid

Okay, I picked up a water treatment and an antibiotic medicated
food. The food is from Jungle, and claims to help columnaris, so I'm
going to go with this. It also says that it's compatible with external
water treatments, but I wanted to check that this is going to be
okay.

The water treatment that I bought is called 'Melafix', and seems to
contain 'Melaleuca 1.0%'. Is this okay?

Should I be isolating the hurt fish, or assuming that this infection
needs to be fought in both fish at this point? I'll be happy as long
as I'm told that this stuff won't hurt a healthy fish, really.

Oh, this Melafix also says to treat the water for 7 days and then do a
25% water change. I was planning to do water changes in the
intervening time. Should I change my schedule to accomodate this
medication? That seems the best course of action, I suppose.

Thanks,

JS

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the sore is all that is needed. all sores/ulcers are bacterial. Ingrid

Jan Sacharuk > wrote:

>In article >, wrote:
>> mirror site. http://www.mu.edu/~buxtoni/puregold/disease/disease.htm
>> It is an infection, bacterial.. columnaris. probably lost slime coat in area, then
>> bacteria got in. treat topically with antibiotic creme, feed
>
>Quick follow-up - how many of those symptoms is it necessary to see to
>diagnose as columnaris? The only thing that may be close is the sore,
>but none of the other symptoms are showing.
>
>JS



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by topical I mean
http://www.mu.edu/~buxtoni/puregold/disease/treatment/trtmnt.htm#topical%20treatment
clean the wound. for columnaris PP is ideal.
http://www.mu.edu/~buxtoni/puregold/disease/treatment/trtmnt.htm#POTASSIUM
KORDON has a permoxyn that is PP already made up. see if you can find that. knocks
columnaris right out.
I would never multiple dose with melaleuca preparations. hard on the gills.
Ingrid

Jan Sacharuk > wrote:
>The water treatment that I bought is called 'Melafix', and seems to
>contain 'Melaleuca 1.0%'. Is this okay?
>
>Should I be isolating the hurt fish, or assuming that this infection
>needs to be fought in both fish at this point? I'll be happy as long
>as I'm told that this stuff won't hurt a healthy fish, really.
>
>Oh, this Melafix also says to treat the water for 7 days and then do a
>25% water change. I was planning to do water changes in the
>intervening time. Should I change my schedule to accomodate this
>medication? That seems the best course of action, I suppose.
>
>Thanks,
>
>JS



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