Bleeding Fish

[AJsTank]

Has anyone ever dealt with this? Woke up to dead fish and bleeding fish.

Never quarantined in 14 years and it finally caught up to me. Hard lesson learned my friends.



Bottom of Cross Hatch bleeding



Here is what it looks like

 

[Eienna]

Ugh. Sorry to hear it.

 

[vlangel]

If they are still eating I've had good luck with Melafix and Maracyn. Bleeding is nearly always bacterial. I used to work at a LFS and they used to sell anti-bacterial foods but I don't know if that's still on the market or not.

 

[Eienna]

Use a combination of maracyn 1 and 2. They are safe to use together and so will combat both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. In the freshwater forum I used to frequent (and really should get back to), I learned this condition is called hemorrhagic septicemia (broken down, it means a blood infection that causes bleeding.)