Re: Skin Ulcers?

Ulcers are primarily caused by baterial infection, which is most often
caused by poor water quality.  Treat affected fish in a hospital tank
with a gram negative antibiotic like kanamycin, tetracycline, anything
with furan, or maracyn-2.  These antibiotics will also kill the
nitrifying bacteria in your tank.  Most of all, keep up with weekly
water changes!
Cris

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:03:52 -0500, "Kevin Murphy"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Anyone,
>
>I have an Amazon tank with three keyhole cichlids, two young angelfish, a
>few cories, and a few small tetras.
>Recently the largest keyhole developed a nasty looking ulcer on the back of
>his head.  He hides a lot, so he
>could have had it for a few days.  I did a 50% water change, cleaned out the
>filter (Eheim), added some salt,
>and turned up the temperature a bit, but he died within hours.  I just
>noticed a similar lesion near the tailfin of
>one of the other keyholes.  Any ideas??  Anything else I could do??
>
>Pictures of the tank:
>http://home.comcast.net/~zeno42/Amazon.htm
>
>Pictures of the keyhole that died (the current ill one won't come out for
>pictures):
>http://home.comcast.net/~zeno42/DSC00029.JPG
>http://home.comcast.net/~zeno42/DSC00030.JPG
>
>
>Thank you very much,
>Kevin Murphy
>