All my catfish are going to die.

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Mikeyy

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Saturday 4/16. I picked up an 18" RTC from arofan on MFK. I brought him home in a cooler with no heat. The drive was roughly 2 hours. I got the fish home, and notices he had thrown up a previous meal. I immediate switch him to a larger bin, and began drip acclimation into my 220gal.
(Like a complete idiot COMPLETE idiot... i DID NOT quarentine the fish i began acclimating him to my stocked 220.)

My 220 is a hold tank for the pond, i have in the very near future ( within a few weeks im picking it up) but regardless stock of 220

18" rtc
18" hybrid
12" marble catfish
2 x 10" RTC

^ over stocked yes. But i keep a very close eye on my parameters and I make damn sure a 70% WC is done at very least weekly.

regardless the catfish was put into the tank after acclimation and seemed fine

4/18 ( Monday ) I began to notice sores on the new addition. His fins looked freyed and he overall looked like ****. I notice very small red sores on the lip of my hybrid catfish.

4/18 (that night) I did a 60% WC, added stress coat / small amount of dissolved aqua salt / melafix. I moved every cat but the hybrid and new RTC into a 300 gal stock tank.

^ 4/18 prior to WC i checked the parameters which suprisingly tested 0ppm nitrite / .25< ppm ammonia.

4/19 (today) the catfish looks like the pictures below. I am absolutely freaking out. I moved the new addition to a 40 gallon breeder tank to treat as he looked the worse this morning. But now all my cats are begining to develop what it looks like are skin sores... and almost like popped blisters!... omfg

Please help in any way shape or form...
 
Calm down Mike. I wouldn't say that they are going to die. It doesn't look good, but they might not die.

That weird though. I have never seen anything like that. I'll come look at them, but you better get me a biohazard suit or something. I don't want to bring that **** home to my hybrid.

Are all of the pictures of the new one?
 
You said you dosed with a small amount of salt and melefix, not including the melifex wouldn't you need quite a lot of salt for your sized tank?.. Have you done another WC tonight, and dosed again with salt?.. did you raise the temp?..

I'm no expert in cats. .. and really I'm just learning about them.. but mine (syno ocellifer sp?) has had a little bright white spot near his tail fin, I noticed it last Friday or so.... I dosed with salt and increased temp.. he seems to be improving.. starting eating like a little pig tonight...
 
I raised the temps from 77 to 82.

By small amount of salt i mean a lot, but not a huge amount for the 220.. idk 3-4 cups or so not a ton..

and i treated with enough mela not a ton but a decent amount for a 220
 
i have 3 300 watt heaters in the tank already and its really hard to maintain 82 i cant imagine trying to get it to 86
 
fishmamma;5063992; said:
I had my tank steady at 86 degrees..
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I won't keep my tanks with bigger catfish that high. They eat enough at 77-81 and I don't think temp is the issue here. The fish and it looks like it is dissolving, like actually melting away. His tail is half gone, it just looks strange. Never thought I would see something that looked like this.

I see the work that goes into this tank every week, and I can vouch for him that this has nothing to do with care. This absolutely is something that was introduced. I saw this tank last thursday, watched everything eat, and fed them myself out of my hand about 2 hours after a W/C. They all looked fantastic. This isn't husbandry related. I think its some type of bacterial infection or maybe something fungal.

Whatever it is, hopefully it doesn't cost mike his whole tank of fish.
 
Are they eating? I'd try salt and a raise in temp for now and alot of wc. At 86F ich can't live at. I'd bump the temp to 87F just in case.if it looks like a fungus dont do it as that speeds up the process but that doesn't look like to be the case
 
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