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Some sort of Fungal Infection | 20 comments (18 topical, 2 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Some sort of Fungal Infection (none / 0) (#18)
by leefromvt on Wed Mar 24, 2004 at 02:51:10 PM PST

I have been having an issue similar to what is being described here. A white mark which I first noticed on a newly introduced female, which I first mistakenly thought could be a defect in her tail, as she seemed to have a little trouble moving it and appeared white in the center of her tail. This I now realize was a swelling of some sort. Now I lost all of the female adult guppy, I moved the males to a different tank as the females were about to drop, the disease progressed pretty rapidly before I had time to properly determine what I thought it was and how to treat it. After reading messages on this site I concluded that is most likely was, Columnaris, the final 2 female guppy with visible symptoms had by this time been moved to the hospital tank. So I treated that tank with Melafix. One guppy had minor visible signs and the other was more progressed. I also treated the tank with the newly born fry, 2 litters of 10 each 2 days apart. I wanted to find out for sure that I had done the correct treatment, so I took the last deceased female guppy to the pet store, not the pet store where I purchased the "Killer Guppy" from (Petsmart) but one I thought was more "Mom & Pop". The fish guy there tested the water first even though I told him that I had added the Melafix and the water was from the hospital tank that was 50/50 with "new' water from the day before, when we decided to quarantine the last 2 adult females (Betty and Wilma) . Even though my reading was "good" he quickly decided that is was a fungus. I do have a picture that I took of one of my fist as she started to get sick, but I'm not sure if I can post it for viewing here. Knowing that from first visible sign of the disease to the death of the guppy was no more than 12 - 24 hours (you could almost track its movement it was so fast), all the guppy started with this strange marking or white swelling on the tail region, which appears to spread but mostly internally making the guppy swollen in appearance. Also it spread 1 by 1 through the tank. Even though I have a million more things to say, this is getting long I will try to rap this up now.

1.)    What is a more professional a 3rd opinion of what this could be, so at least I know in the future.)?
2.)    Is the treatment I'm using on the fry tank going to help them and the two juvenile females remaining in the tank? (They still have no signs as of the removal of the two with signs) 24-36 hours prior.
3.)    The net, filter vacuum, etc I used on the tank with the ill fish can they be cleaned? How?
4.)    Any advice on how to recover and prevent would be appreciated.

Re: Some sort of Fungal Infection (none / 0) (#19)
by leefromvt on Wed Mar 24, 2004 at 04:18:18 PM PST

I think i found the picture post: Please ID if you can.
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4287350461

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Some sort of Fungal Infection | 20 comments (18 topical, 2 editorial, 0 hidden)

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