Guppy with mouth fungus

[BreeRelli]

Hello!
I recently adopted a few female guppies. One of them, Cephia, is dealing with some fungus around her mouth.
She is in a 1-gal hospital tank being treated with Kanaplex. Today is the 4th day. I gave the second dose yesterday.
Yesterday she was looking great, back to eating, swimming around, and nearly all the fungus was gone. This morning I woke up and she looked like this, the fungus returned (btw, in photo you're also seeing through the hospital tank to the main aquarium). I'm wondering if any of this could be due to not offering the 2nd dose exactly 48 hours after the first—it was a few hours late.
Tested the water this morning, it reads:
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0
Ph - 7.4
Temperature 81.5-82.5

I have methylene blue and aquarium salt on hand, though I'm not sure if they can be used to help, or how.

Any help appreciated! I want to do everything I can to help her recover.

 

[Andy Sager]

Hello!
I recently adopted a few female guppies. One of them, Cephia, is dealing with some fungus around her mouth.
She is in a 1-gal hospital tank being treated with Kanaplex. Today is the 4th day. I gave the second dose yesterday.
Yesterday she was looking great, back to eating, swimming around, and nearly all the fungus was gone. This morning I woke up and she looked like this, the fungus returned (btw, in photo you're also seeing through the hospital tank to the main aquarium). I'm wondering if any of this could be due to not offering the 2nd dose exactly 48 hours after the first—it was a few hours late.
Tested the water this morning, it reads:
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0
Ph - 7.4
Temperature 81.5-82.5

I have methylene blue and aquarium salt on hand, though I'm not sure if they can be used to help, or how.

Any help appreciated! I want to do everything I can to help her recover.

To ease your mind, missing a dose by a couple of hours is not going to cause a reoccurrence but using the wrong med will. Most mouth fungus symptoms is more often than not one of the strains of Columnaris, ( there are 4 strains. :^s ) not a true fungus but a bacteria. As good as Kanamycin is for a lot of bacterial infections, alone, it's not the best med for Columnaris. It needs to be mixed with other meds to be effective and that gets expensive. My buddy Michael, a guppy breeder, has a method he uses for treating Columnaris and made a video. You can see it here:

It is with Meth Blue and salt. Be aware tho that this is best done in a hospital tank with an air stone, not a filter since the Meth Blue will kill off the nitrifying microbes in the filter. You will be doing water changes before there is any appreciable amount of ammonia so just follow the directions for when to do water changes and how much water to change. The M Blue will also stain everything so if your hospital tank has anything porous, it will turn blue. That goes for the silicone if it's a glass tank.

Hope this helps

 

[BreeRelli]

Thank you very much for your reply!
The fungus is looking more severe this evening, though she still gets up to swim between taking breaks near the bottom.
I’ll watch this and try it out for her. Is it okay during Kanaplex?
Is there anything else you’d recommend doing? There is a pet shop with a decent section of aquarium supplies I could go to in the morning.

 

[Andy Sager]

Thank you very much for your reply!
The fungus is looking more severe this evening, though she still gets up to swim between taking breaks near the bottom.
I’ll watch this and try it out for her.
Is there anything else you’d recommend doing? There is a pet shop with a decent section of aquarium supplies I could go to in the morning.

Part of your issue is that the water is too warm so the bacteria is actually multiplying faster. Watch the video and follow the directions tonight. Columnaris is a fast moving killer so the sooner you treat the better.

 

[BreeRelli]

I noticed it was too warm... it's cooling down now, and I've already given the M blue and the salt, she seems quite weak, but I'm hoping for the best.

 

[Andy Sager]

I noticed it was too warm... it's cooling down now, and I've already given the M blue and the salt, she seems quite weak, but I'm hoping for the best.

At this point, that's all you can do.

 

[BreeRelli]

Thank you for your help. I'll keep all of this in mind.
Cephia passed late this night. <3 Cephia

 

[Andy Sager]

Unfortunately, diagnosing fish diseases has become a very difficult thing because we are dealing with different diseases or variants of diseases between farm raised fish and wild caught fish. The key to saving sick fish is properly diagnosing what exactly your fish is suffering from and medicating quickly.
You may want to bookmark this thread : Diseases because in it is a link to one of the best diagnostic books for the average hobbyist ( Handbook of tropical fish diseases ) It is an older book so some of the medications it recommends may no longer be available but the diagnostic chart in the beginning of the book is invaluable. I've used it over many years to save very expensive fish as well as everyday common fish. Once you know what the fish has, we can better help with what medications are available to use.