Help with Royal Gamma

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I have never quarantined in the past, but since I'm setting up a new tank, I wanted to forego buying the pre-quarantined fish as it hasn't always worked out. I purchased a Golden Midas and a Royal Gamma as my first additions. Following Humblefish's hyrbid h2o2 TTM method, we are into day 4 with our first transfer and we did the H2o2 bath on day one before going into quarantine.

My Midas is doing excellent, but my Gamma has been hanging out at the bottom behind the heater, PVC, sponge filter, etc.

He has a mark you can see behind his eyes that looks like an infection (kind of gray color), but not really positive. I gave him a Methylene Blue bath that I didn't realize would stain my hands for 3 days, and have been running metroplex and feeding a mix of Focus, Metro, and GC with Mysis and Garlic. He eats, but not much. He doesn't appear to be breathing overly heavy.

I'm going to the fish store tomorrow morning. Wanted opinions on what it looks like from experienced eyes, and what medication I should purchase? Current meds I have are GC, Prazipro, Stressguard, Methylene Blue, Coppersafe, Metroplex, Focus, and Protoshield.

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White-ish filmy areas should be watched. Can be the beginning of a bacterial infection.

A good antibiotic to have on hand is Kanaplex. If you can also get Furan2, then you have the ability to dose the "trifecta" of antibiotics: Kanaplex + Furan2 + Metro. It covers a very wide range of internal and external bacterial infections and works well together.
 
Sounds good, I'll grab them both tomorrow morning. Since he's not eating heavily, should I focus on treating the water column on top of his food?
 
Royal grammas are really shy at first and mostly like to hide. Make sure he has lot of places in the tank to feel comfortable hiding safely. Could have burned himself hiding behind the heater.
 

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