toothgrinder Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 pH 7.6 Nitrates 20 Hardness 2 Nitrite 0 Ammonia 0 KH/Buffer 7 Water Temperature 73 My dojo is clearly sick, I’m not too sure what it is. Noticed it yesterday, he’s slightly more lethargic than usual and has these weird spots. The one area on his back looks almost slightly yellowish but there’s also white on him, looks like his slime coat coming off sort of. Any input is appreciated, I’m going to do a water change and maybe up the temp a few degrees. Nothing new has been added to the tank and no other fish is sick. Tank is always stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toothgrinder Posted January 13, 2021 Author Share Posted January 13, 2021 Looks like there may be 1-2 larger looking bumps on him too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 It looks like a bacterial infection I would quarantine and treat with aquarium salt 1 table for two gallons and and maracyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toothgrinder Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 I’ve been doing water changes and hand feeding him. I think I’ll do a salt bath on him for a few hours if he is alive when I get home from my trip today. Hard to tell if he is healing or getting worse past couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 I think at this point you would be better treating him with maracyn along side the salt treatment 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenFins Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Is it fuzzy or more "solid". If its not fuzzy (which the picture looks like it isn't) It wouldn't be a bacterial infection but it Looks like hole in the head and the bottom picture possible resembles ich (not sure though its a weird looking ich). Hole in the head is often caused by hexamita and can be treated with Paraclense. I would suggest to start off with the paraclense as if it is ich paraclense should take care of that too. A Salt Treatment won't hurt and neither would the med trio. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toothgrinder Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share Posted January 20, 2021 The portion in front of his dorsal fin has healed, and now there’s a portion behind the dorsal that looks bad, and a spot near his tail end that was definitely cut physically unless there’s an illness that can mimic that. I’m starting to believe he hurt himself on lava rock which I’ll remove from the tank. Salt would help disinfect the wounds I imagine and clean water+good food to keep him healthy. No other fish shows any signs of distress and there’s like 30 in there. I wish dojo’s didn’t have to move like total freaks sometimes and potentially hurt themselves. There is a bit of fuzziness in spots, but like I said, the spot in front of his dorsal was ‘fuzzy’ for a day and it’s all healed now, I think it was his skin/slime coat falling off and rebuilding not a fungus. Maybe bacterial. Definitely not ich, I have some experience there, I don’t think it’s hole in the head as the spots are anywhere except near his head. Tomorrow I can see him and add some more photos to show how he is progressing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenFins Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 1 hour ago, toothgrinder said: The portion in front of his dorsal fin has healed, and now there’s a portion behind the dorsal that looks bad, and a spot near his tail end that was definitely cut physically unless there’s an illness that can mimic that. I’m starting to believe he hurt himself on lava rock which I’ll remove from the tank. Salt would help disinfect the wounds I imagine and clean water+good food to keep him healthy. No other fish shows any signs of distress and there’s like 30 in there. I wish dojo’s didn’t have to move like total freaks sometimes and potentially hurt themselves. There is a bit of fuzziness in spots, but like I said, the spot in front of his dorsal was ‘fuzzy’ for a day and it’s all healed now, I think it was his skin/slime coat falling off and rebuilding not a fungus. Maybe bacterial. Definitely not ich, I have some experience there, I don’t think it’s hole in the head as the spots are anywhere except near his head. Tomorrow I can see him and add some more photos to show how he is progressing. If its fuzzy its probably just a bacterial infection and it seems your going down the right path Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toothgrinder Posted January 22, 2021 Author Share Posted January 22, 2021 He looks really bad. In a tank by himself with salt and paraguard for 2 full days now. So fuzzy I almost want to manually scrub him off but that’s probably not good.the fuzz is long too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 (edited) I looks like secondary fungal infection I would treat with API fungus cure and maracyn Edited January 22, 2021 by Colu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toothgrinder Posted January 22, 2021 Author Share Posted January 22, 2021 6 minutes ago, Colu said: I looks like secondary fungal infection I would treat with API fungus cure Paraguard claims to help fungal lesions too, I’m going to change the water again today with fresh salt and paraguard you think I should add the API fungus cure on top of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 (edited) API fungus cure is a better treatment in my experience than paraguard for treating fungal infections Edited January 22, 2021 by Colu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toothgrinder Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 I manually wiped some of his white fuzziness off yesterday, and now today most of the rest of it fell off through the night. I wouldn’t have done it if he didn’t have such a bad case but I think it helped all the treatment penetrate and fight the infection. He’s easy to touch and handle so it didn’t stress him out too bad. So I think he’s over the climax of this and now has to recover, we’ll see how it goes. The fuzziness was way worse than the last photo showed, before mostly being clear in this photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Hope he make a full recovery 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toothgrinder Posted January 26, 2021 Author Share Posted January 26, 2021 Well, even though the gunk mostly fell off of him yesterday, he unfortunately was dead when I got home from work today. Thanks for the input everyone. I think I learned a thing or two from this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 Sorry it did work out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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