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    Help! Moderate/severe fin rot

    Update Thank you for everyone's advice. He is eating again, swimming around his tank doing normal fishy things. We got him an air stone which he seems to really enjoy. His fins are starting to grow back and his eye looks better every day. Some of his scales turned black, which I read is part of...
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    Help! Moderate/severe fin rot

    We moved him back to the old tank and checking morning and night for the ammonia and nitrite levels. My fish is looking better, but his eye still has the white cottony fungus on it. My biggest concern now is that he still not eating. It is now day 5 since he stopped eating. He is swimming and...
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    Help! Moderate/severe fin rot

    Also, what should I do about the fin rot? His tail and fin shape is still there, but they're shredded looking. Should I give him the lifeguard?
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    Help! Moderate/severe fin rot

    No I don't fully know how to cycle a tank with a fish. In the past we just put him in the tank and let it do it's thing.
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    Help! Moderate/severe fin rot

    Right now he's not eating. The pictures aren't the best for showing the fin rot. His fins have their shape, but are shredded.
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    Help! Moderate/severe fin rot

    I took him out of the new tank and put him in an extra tank we set up a couple months ago with a plant. I read that if the plant shows new growth then the tank has cycled. so, he should be in a clean cycled tank now. I put aquarium salt in the tank and mist if the white stuff came off, he was...
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    Help! Moderate/severe fin rot

    The nitrite and nitrate levels appear to be zero, the ph is around 7-7.5. I don't know the ammonia levels. I did a 25% water change and that seemed to perk him up for a few minutes.
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    Help! Moderate/severe fin rot

    My question is should I use tetra lifeguard to treat fin rot and how much? My two gold fish were in a 10 gallon, it needed to be cleaned, but also they needed a larger tank. I had just treated them for ich, or what do I thought was ick. Stupidly we got them a 20 gallon tank put them in it...
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