A question for all the cichlid keepers out there. What do you do when one of your fish takes a severe beating? How do you go about healing them up? More importantly, what do you do when the wounds become infected...that white fungus that you see develop. I've had to deal with it a time or two, and wonder if anyone out there has a different protocol, a miracle cure of sorts? Obviously, not permitting such violence to take place would be best, but you don't always know when someone is going to snap. I'd love to get some input...maybe a story or two about some long shots that ended up pulling through. Thanks in advance.
Badly Beaten
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Depending on the injuries and their severity i use melfix, pimafix, and salt along with increasing the temp in the tank..
I never heard of actually using iodine on the fish, will keep that in mind for next time.
Yeppers, I'm a Melafix fan too!
The whole iodine thing was new to me untill about 2 months ago when I had a badly wounded Geo.Surinamensis. I went out and bought some of this iodine based stuff called Mercurochrome from the chemist for about $5 au. Apparantly you can take the fish out and gently dab this stuff directly on the wound with a cotton bud, but it was too late for my Surinamensis, he was gone by the time I got home... *sob sob* :-(
Anyway, it is supposed to work wonders, but a big tip, DON'T PUT IT ONTO WOUNDS ON OR OVER THE FISH'S LATERAL LINE!!! This is the advice I got from my lfs cause this could kill the fish!
Be careful,
Pete.
The whole iodine thing was new to me untill about 2 months ago when I had a badly wounded Geo.Surinamensis. I went out and bought some of this iodine based stuff called Mercurochrome from the chemist for about $5 au. Apparantly you can take the fish out and gently dab this stuff directly on the wound with a cotton bud, but it was too late for my Surinamensis, he was gone by the time I got home... *sob sob* :-(
Anyway, it is supposed to work wonders, but a big tip, DON'T PUT IT ONTO WOUNDS ON OR OVER THE FISH'S LATERAL LINE!!! This is the advice I got from my lfs cause this could kill the fish!
Be careful,
Pete.