Ava,
What are your water parameters -- in numbers? Before treating, you not
only need to know the cause, but you need to eliminate the cause. You also
need to have a correct diagnosis before treating, to ensure you use the correct
medication.
If this is fin rot, your Melafix won't address it, nor will just salt do
very much for it. As you mention "red streaks" in the fins though, this
sounds very much like Hemhorragic Septicemia (blood poisoning) primarily caused
by excessive ammonia and ultimately resulting either in an internal bacterial
infection or viral infection. For this, you'll need a good
internally-absorbed gram-negative antibiotic such as Kanamycin or Minocycline (Maracyn
II), to treat against such a bacterial infection (hoping it's not the virus).
Even for Fin Rot, you would need a medication such as Furan 2; Melafix just
won't cut it.
Add medication only after doing a PWC (and after first testing for you
water parameters). You don't state here what kind of a filter you have, but if
you have an HOB filter, just remove the filter medium cartridge. Never
rinse your filter under tap water as it will kill your nitrifying bacteria --
even if by "filter" you mean only the actual filter case itself and not the
filter media.
Yes, it's best to isolate the fish in this case, when medicating.
Ray </HTML>
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