A couple of my fish have a body fungus and it's a pretty big patch on there body and nowhere else and I was wondering what to use to treat it because I have melafix here at my house right now if that will work so please let me know what I can use for this thanks
Body fungus
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Can you post a picture, fungus for salt water is quite rare and it might be a bacterial infection instead.
Im not sure about melafix, but I believe that works from what I read, so you can try it.
You can also try paraguard, kanaplex, sulfaplex (triple sulfa)
best of luck
Im not sure about melafix, but I believe that works from what I read, so you can try it.
You can also try paraguard, kanaplex, sulfaplex (triple sulfa)
best of luck
A bacterial infection or Lymphocystis are more likely than fungus in SW fish.
Photos are needed here.
Photos are needed here.
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It didn't put the picture on but it's hard to get one but I have a copperband butterfly with lymphocystis and it's not like that and my purple tang is loosing it's color and it has white patches on its side's of its body also
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I'm ordering kanaplex and metroplex online and it will be here in 2 days but I'm gonna start dosing the melafix today and tomorrow until I get these other one's in 2 days from Amazon because nowhere around me carries these type of medications
@randy4083 I think I can see tiny white dots on parts of the body (like below). Is this an accurate observation on my part?
But then in other areas, I think I see flukes (below).
But then in other areas, I think I see flukes (below).
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Like I said I just ordered kanaplex and metroplex from Amazon that will be here in 2 days so hopefully whatever it is these 2 things together will take care of it because whenever any of my fish have had itch and stuff they didn't eat until treated with cupramine copper and there eating still so who really knows
Could it be a wound inflicted by an anemone/coral, or I think I see an urchin in the background? Or possibly he got scraped up in the rocks...
While you're waiting for those to come in, I would start soaking his food in vitamins to boost the immune system: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/vitamins-herbal-remedies.304287/
We can reevaluate his condition once the antibiotics arrive.
Does it look anything like the photos here? https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/brooklynella.247938/
