I am currently battling what I am pretty sure is cotton mouth with a neon tetra. He is in a QT tank with 14 other fish (4 more neon tetras and 10 black neon tetras). It is an iso tank and they may be a bit cramped. It is 10 gallon filtered with an Aquaclear 20. I am currently treating with a pimafix/melafix combo. That may change in the future to a furan 2 or jungle fungus treatment.
I can't really tell well if it is fuzzy with a mouth like a little neon tetra. It looks like he was sucking on a milk bucket.
I am on day 3 of the treatment and haven't seen any improvement in fact one other neon has a bump on his mouth and I am almost positive that is how it started for the first one.
My questions are:
When do you cull a fish? I am assuming that in this case they have been in the iso tank for over a week. The neons were at the store together. I assume that the whole tank is affected. What circumstances are made when a fish is not at deaths door?
When treating bacterial infections you want to finish up the antibiotics in order to not create a resistant strain. Is that the case with fungus as well? Should I complete the current treatment before starting another?
Thanks!
Jana
I can't really tell well if it is fuzzy with a mouth like a little neon tetra. It looks like he was sucking on a milk bucket.
I am on day 3 of the treatment and haven't seen any improvement in fact one other neon has a bump on his mouth and I am almost positive that is how it started for the first one.
My questions are:
When do you cull a fish? I am assuming that in this case they have been in the iso tank for over a week. The neons were at the store together. I assume that the whole tank is affected. What circumstances are made when a fish is not at deaths door?
When treating bacterial infections you want to finish up the antibiotics in order to not create a resistant strain. Is that the case with fungus as well? Should I complete the current treatment before starting another?
Thanks!
Jana