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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

Can you get melifix in Denmark? That should clear it up

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.

Water parameters? Upkeep?

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!

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.

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

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

Wish I have a unusually understanding wife too.. Lol.. Glad she is OK!

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...

Still no new red but white ragged edge about to come off, we'll see in 10 hours time, over and out.

A little red today, using fin again, acting normal

I have used Melafix with great success. Just don't use it with plecos or bettas.

I will order some melafix then..

Any ideas on why she got this?

Coming and going, is it finrot at all?

Jesper

Generally caused by poor water conditions.