HELP!! SICK FISH!!! RAMNDOMLY WATERCOW!

bryan.u159

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hey forum i was at work when my wife told me my cow had white dots on him alot of it nd i thought it was ick the way she described it, but when i got home on further inspection this looked nothing like ick. i need your help guys this looks like a sort of fungus how did my cow get this? and what can i do to heal it? please help me what medicine will save my cow from certain death?!?!?! only 2 more tank mates pleco and ray
 

festaedan

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Looks like fungus to me.
Fungus is normally caused by infected bites or bad water params. It looks too spread out to be a bite so I'd check your water.
I'd use pimafix but if that doesnt work I'd go for something stronger like mardel fungus cure (I believe thats what it's called)
 

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Is that a bunch of uneaten food in there ? (Photo 10.)

If the water params were fine, this wouldn't happen - unless if he had some injuries that later got infected - which does not happen overnight. In fact - are you sure you didn't notice anything wrong before ?

Do you clean the gravel when you do your WC's ?
 

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What's your water parameters Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates & Ph. Please provide numbers.
 

bryan.u159

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my wife threw that uneatten food in there she kept doing it trying to get the cow to eat and ill do a water change and buy the medicine
 

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^ wate what med are you buying? Do you have the ability to test your water parameters?
 
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