I housed my injured red Scat in a small breeder container (in the main tank), after i discovered that his friend is pecking it to death. The injury is near the dorsal area and that was last week. However today when i was doing my water change, I notice that there are white stuff growing on its right fin and near the anal fin.
1) I don't have any test kit so I am not sure of the water parameters.
2) It's a 40 UK gallon brackish tank. 10 Feeder mollies, 2 red scats (6cm), 3 spotted scats (4-6cm) and 5 monos (4cm)
3) Do 20% water change weekly. Fed them brine shrimp, algae wafers and sinking pellets
4) No changes have been made since I redesign it two months back
5) The tank have been in use for 3 years.
What medication should I use? and the cause?
Fin rot
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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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Re: Fin rot
You really need to get some test kits. It's very important. You can treat with melafix and pimafix. Use both together and it should help him/her heal it's fins and get rid of the fungus that's now growing on it. 
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Re: Fin rot
Definitely second edmlfc1's advice: use melafix and pimafix in combination together - they are very mild and at the same time effective. Give it a good week of treatment.
Also, as she said, find someway to test your water. At the very least, you can take some water to your LFS as most of them will test it for free. If you want a test kit but can't afford the whole thing now (they can run $50-60), do like I did and buy the individual tests for ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, and pH - those are all most of us will ever need. The API ones do both fresh and salt water.
Also, as she said, find someway to test your water. At the very least, you can take some water to your LFS as most of them will test it for free. If you want a test kit but can't afford the whole thing now (they can run $50-60), do like I did and buy the individual tests for ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, and pH - those are all most of us will ever need. The API ones do both fresh and salt water.
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Re: Fin rot
Okay will try the melafix and pimafix combine this weekend,because i am in the army now and they only let me out on the weekend, as for the test kits - next pay day.
For test kits, is there a limited amount of times you can use them? Out of ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, and pH which is more important in this situation?
For test kits, is there a limited amount of times you can use them? Out of ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, and pH which is more important in this situation?
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Re: Fin rot
Well, not sure exactly what you mean when you say "For test kits, is there a limited amount of times you can use them?", but the test kits last a looong time, as long as you're not testing 10 times per day every day.
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Re: Fin rot
That is because, I saw someone selling second hand test kit online and in the comment he put "used 15times" So i though maybe its like a litmus paper (use and throw) or something similar.