Hobgob
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So 5 days ago exact I woke up and saw my Siamese algae eater missing half of his mouth and a bit of his head. So I set up a qt and got him in it as fast as possible. While looking at him I saw a stringy like thing almost like a weird fungus but I wasn't sure.
I put erythromycin into the qt to help treat the wound and/or fungus. He is still alive right now but I can't tell if it's getting better or not. When it first happened, it looked red and "open" but now it's kind of turning the colour of the scales from before.
So my question is how can I tell if it is getting better, should I just euthanize him?(don't really want to though).
I think my male krib was picking on him and he just couldn't get away. It's weird though, they have been in the tank since April and the kribs had a fry three months ago. (Why not another, I don't know but the pair in the 110 have had two since then.) But I think it's the tank had fungus and he was hit the hardest and basically recovered. Then this.
Anyway how can I tell? Will the scale go a certain colour? Will it get worse before it get better?
I put erythromycin into the qt to help treat the wound and/or fungus. He is still alive right now but I can't tell if it's getting better or not. When it first happened, it looked red and "open" but now it's kind of turning the colour of the scales from before.
So my question is how can I tell if it is getting better, should I just euthanize him?(don't really want to though).
I think my male krib was picking on him and he just couldn't get away. It's weird though, they have been in the tank since April and the kribs had a fry three months ago. (Why not another, I don't know but the pair in the 110 have had two since then.) But I think it's the tank had fungus and he was hit the hardest and basically recovered. Then this.
Anyway how can I tell? Will the scale go a certain colour? Will it get worse before it get better?