Sick Tusk???

Feet4Fish · Nov 14, 2016

My tusk is acting bad. Stationary most of the time. Big belly (bloat??), lethargic. 3-4 days ago woke up to him with this tail wound. Has significant granulation tissue around it. Has he gone septic? Is the tail unrelated and he has bloat??? Constipated? Any help is appreciated.

Feet4Fish · Nov 14, 2016

Feet4Fish · Nov 14, 2016

Also he has refused food for the past three days.

Tahoe61 · Nov 14, 2016

Not a good sign, move to QT asap if able. It looks and sounds bacterial. See link below for medicinal intervention. I am sure @Humblefish and or @melypr1985 will advise further.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bacterial-infections.191511/

Humblefish · Nov 14, 2016

Agree with bacterial infection diagnosis. You need to get him into QT ASAP and start dosing antibiotics for there to be any chance of survival. Kanaplex + Furan-2 + Metroplex would be my weapons of choice here. At the very least, you'll want either Kanaplex or Furan... but any broad spectrum antibiotic will do at this point.

This is another good option, but I fear he will be dead before you would receive it in the mail: http://store.nationalfishpharm.com/Nitrofuracin-Green-59584.Item.html

melypr1985 · Nov 14, 2016

I agree with bacterial infection as well. Act as quickly as you can without panic. These things can move quickly and kill quickly. Good luck!

Feet4Fish · Nov 14, 2016

Thanks everyone! Have him qt and all I have on hand is melafix. Will get the others first thing in the morning if he is still alive. He is my favorite fish so this particularly stinks.

melypr1985 · Nov 14, 2016

Keep us posted on how he does.

Humblefish · Nov 14, 2016

soffutt said:
Thanks everyone! Have him qt and all I have on hand is melafix. Will get the others first thing in the morning if he is still alive. He is my favorite fish so this particularly stinks.

Melafix is better than nothing until you can get some real meds.

Daniel@R2R · Nov 15, 2016

How's he doing? I'm hoping you were able to get the meds to him. Best of luck!

Feet4Fish · Nov 15, 2016

mdbannister said:
How's he doing? I'm hoping you were able to get the meds to him. Best of luck!

No luck. He has passed. He was always my favorite which really stinks. I try to learn from everything that happens. From this I know now I should have acted sooner when I noticed he wasn't eating. Also I need to have these meds on hand which I do now.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Daniel@R2R · Nov 15, 2016

soffutt said:
No luck. He has passed. He was always my favorite which really stinks. I try to learn from everything that happens. From this I know now I should have acted sooner when I noticed he wasn't eating. Also I need to have these meds on hand which I do now.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Dang! So sorry.

melypr1985 · Nov 15, 2016

soffutt said:
No luck. He has passed. He was always my favorite which really stinks. I try to learn from everything that happens. From this I know now I should have acted sooner when I noticed he wasn't eating. Also I need to have these meds on hand which I do now.

Thanks everyone for the help.

sorry for your loss