Wilma has got herself a rotting fin!
She's making Wild dashes and rubbing the affected fin, her left, against sand and glas.
Fortunately theres not sharp items she can poke herself on!
Strange thing is, i saw the reddening of the fin and made a few 25% waterchanges over the course of a week and it dissapeared!
Then today when she woke up and left her sandbed, she only used the right/healthy fin, the left flat against her side and red, bleeding a little where she rubbed it against some driftwood.
Been eating and behaving as usual until now she makes the sudden dashes back n forth and showing her teeth to me in a way she's never done it before
I have esha2000 in the house and nothing else!
Meds for fish are now illegal in My country so it will be a few days away if i need some other medicine
Regards
Jesper & wilma
She's in 240gallon
All alone { not quite! theres a ghostshrimp that lives in a hole in a pjece of driftwood!}
I do 80gallon weekly waterchange
Feed on ramshorns and marble crayfish i breed myself No sick or dying in those tanks either!
26-27 celcius
Background filter with 5-6x filtration Per hour
Has been up and running without problems for more than a year before this happened
Known cure for finrot?
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Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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jesper
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Known cure for finrot?
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Arny
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
Can you get melifix in Denmark? That should clear it up
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jesper
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
No but could order it from Germany or uk
The thing is i have bad experience with melafix, it didnt work when i used it some time back for other but scaleless fish.
The thing is i have bad experience with melafix, it didnt work when i used it some time back for other but scaleless fish.
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jesper
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
I have to admit i stopped the regular checking of waterparameters around 2 months ago as i ran out and everything had been stable for the past year! Maybe that was my bad. Ill buy new testkit today i i can make it or tomorrow at the latest!
Upkeep? I swap the 30+ % of water every week and have done so since i started this tank
I add easylife as i have since i started the tank!?!
She's alone except for the ghostshrimp that she couldent catch. It lives in a hole in some Wood and i can't catch it either!
Upkeep? I swap the 30+ % of water every week and have done so since i started this tank
I add easylife as i have since i started the tank!?!
She's alone except for the ghostshrimp that she couldent catch. It lives in a hole in some Wood and i can't catch it either!
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
Just a little side track.. I am guessing she is more than 10in already.. U may want to consider switching to harder food like clams, mussels etc.. Ramhorns at this stage may not do her ever growing teeth any good.. Btw that's a pretty decent large tank for a fahaka.
I am not a Troll, I am just pissed..!
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jesper
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
Ph is 7.5-8 which is my tapwater
Kh around 15 which is quite normal here
Cl2 0
NO2 0
No3 10
Gh less than 7
Ya, she's 30cm now
Bout the size i thought i'd like to give more than just the recommended minimum livingspace as i have room for it and an unusually understanding wife
Kh around 15 which is quite normal here
Cl2 0
NO2 0
No3 10
Gh less than 7
Ya, she's 30cm now
Bout the size i thought i'd like to give more than just the recommended minimum livingspace as i have room for it and an unusually understanding wife
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jesper
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
Now, back from the petshop, the affected fin all clear again, no red left, little pale along the edege of fin swimming and behaving normal again. She also ate to thumbsized shrimps today as ferociously as allways i may add
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scpion
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
Wish I have a unusually understanding wife too.. Lol.. Glad she is OK!
I am not a Troll, I am just pissed..!
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jesper
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
Thank you, both wife and fahaka are OK 
I think i see some structural? changes in the fin but all red are gone for now?
Comes and greets me when i enter the room and all...
I think i see some structural? changes in the fin but all red are gone for now?
Comes and greets me when i enter the room and all...
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jesper
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
Still no new red but white ragged edge about to come off, we'll see in 10 hours time, over and out.
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jesper
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
A little red today, using fin again, acting normal
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
I have used Melafix with great success. Just don't use it with plecos or bettas.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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jesper
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
I will order some melafix then..
Any ideas on why she got this?
Coming and going, is it finrot at all?
Jesper
Any ideas on why she got this?
Coming and going, is it finrot at all?
Jesper
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Re: Known cure for finrot?
Generally caused by poor water conditions.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"