fin and tail rot I think

[johjoh]

After leaving my fish in someone else's care the ammonia levels went
through the roof and as a result we had a fin and tail rot problem. We
lost a couple of fish but have some recovering. We did a lot of water
changes and added malachite green, formaldehyde, dehydroabietylamine,
acriflavine ( wardley fungus-ade), every four days. We now have one
fish that was seriously affected which has developed dark streaks on
the fins and body. Is this recovery (he's looking a lot more active
now) or a secondary problem?

[Gavin Colbourne 1&1]

I have a similar problem one of my wifes fish devoloped fin rot and became
stress and a couple days later he has developed swimbladder and he is
looking very sorry for himself but hopefully with a course of swimbladder
treatment he may become healthy again

"johjoh" > wrote in message
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> After leaving my fish in someone else's care the ammonia levels went
> through the roof and as a result we had a fin and tail rot problem. We
> lost a couple of fish but have some recovering. We did a lot of water
> changes and added malachite green, formaldehyde, dehydroabietylamine,
> acriflavine ( wardley fungus-ade), every four days. We now have one
> fish that was seriously affected which has developed dark streaks on
> the fins and body. Is this recovery (he's looking a lot more active
> now) or a secondary problem?

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when ammonia spikes the gills are fried. then treatment is dicey cause everything in
teh water hits the gills and can make the gills worse. it isnt recommended to even
do a salt dip. rather, fresh water (50% water changes every day) and a little salt,
like 1 teaspoon per 5 gallons. the slime coat will be thick and will slough off
looking like cloudy threads.
black is healing on GF. Ingrid

(johjoh) wrote:

>After leaving my fish in someone else's care the ammonia levels went
>through the roof and as a result we had a fin and tail rot problem. We
>lost a couple of fish but have some recovering. We did a lot of water
>changes and added malachite green, formaldehyde, dehydroabietylamine,
>acriflavine ( wardley fungus-ade), every four days. We now have one
>fish that was seriously affected which has developed dark streaks on
>the fins and body. Is this recovery (he's looking a lot more active
>now) or a secondary problem?



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