Re: Sick rainbow fish -help needed!

Strange enough, after a month of treatment in a hospital tank with no
visible improvement I decided it was cruel to let the fish die
miserable and alone in the hospital tank.  So I moved him back into
the community tank and just over 24hrs later he was cured!!!

Jeremy



On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 06:46:17 -0600, Jeremy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hi,
>  I have a 4" long blue rainbow fish (Melanotaenia lacustris, I
>believe) and although he is eating normally and behaves normally,
>there is something very wrong; just behind his pelvic fins his skin
>has burst open and what seems to be raw flesh or perhaps even organs
>are hanging out!!
>  Since I noticed this about three weeks ago I took him out of the
>community tank and placed him in a hospital tank with 5 gallons, daily
>water changes of 1 galon (20%), no filter, just aeration.  I have
>treated the water with Furan-2 (nitrofurazone, furazolidone and
>methylene blue) however no luck, I tried malachite green and no luck
>either.  Adding kitchen salt (0.33 oz every two days) has not aided
>either.
>  So end result is three weeks later I don't see any improvement at
>all.  I don't really understand if the problem is an ulcer, a tumor,
>or something else.  None of the typical medicines has solved the
>problem.
>  I am putting up a photo of the poor guy at
>http://www.polarpaper.com/T6ri/ for anyone who is interested in
>checking this out.
>  Any suggestions are most welcome!!  I really would like to save him,
>he has been with me for four years now, I am afraid to put him back in
>the community tank in case the affliction is contagious or other fish
>might pick on him.
>  Can't bear to see him in this state and am considering terminating
>him instead of letting him live misserably in a hospital tank, very
>possibly in pain.
>  Please help!!
>
>
>Jeremy