Fish: Re: [tropical fish club] ich, but not ich

Wow what a great outcome! Keep us posted!

Donna

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>To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
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>Hi. Well My Gourami started to go downhill fast; he was inactive and spending lots of time on the bottom.
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>I decided the velvet treatment wasn't working so I isolated the fish in another tank (no meds) for a day, I then took a chance and switched meds again fin rot and fungus, as this was the only med left in my arsenal I hadn't tried.
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>Two days later and the Gourami is flying around the tank and eating again, he is looking much better and the spots seem to have gone, the only thing left is he's feeler things still have a little bit of splitting.
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>Anyway I am going to leave him on treatment for seven days and see if the splitting clears up.
>From the outset I had excluded fungus as a possibility; all the articles I read described it as cotton wool like, I thought like a clump of cotton wool.
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>When it started it looked more like single strands of cotton wool just protruding from the fish's body, and later like tiny white spots almost ich like it then progressed to longer looking single strands of very fine cotton, so I guess the early stages of fungus can be very deceptive.
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>Anyway I am much more optimistic about the fish now, I know its early days but he looks like he's on the mend.
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>Ray thanks again for taking the time to help me, much appreciated.
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>Matt glad your fish are on the mend, I had a problem with ich a while back I treated it with malachite Green for three weeks with no effect. I then removed the meds and heat treated at 30c for three days worked a treat.
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