Best med for ray fungus?

[DB junkie]

I know these are sensitive to meds. Was wondering if the ray gurus here can tell me what the best med is to treat fungus?

Got a female that looks to be developing a whitish color on its sides back by the tail. Was kinda roughed up by the mature male (who is now moved). Looks like it may be getting infected.

Wish I could post pics but can't at the moment.

ANY help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[stingrayguy]

I would use salt. And bring temp to 86-88 lots and lots of salt. Get a pond test kit. Im told you can bring a ray tank to 3.0 over a few days. And that will fix your porblem

 

[cane]

ime rays heal up with no problems in good water
first i would check the water quality if you aint already

if i had a ray with fungus i would use esha if you can get it where you are

 

[DB junkie]

Water quality is crap. No sugarcoating that. Had to move things fast and the the tank was way crowded before the rays went in. Been doing 25% w.c everyday for the last 4. Still have high nitrate...around 60. Nitrite and ammonia are fine.

Brad you say 3.0. WTF does that mean? LOL?

 

[cane]

i think he means salinity?

 

[stingrayguy]

Water quality is crap. No sugarcoating that. Had to move things fast and the the tank was way crowded before the rays went in. Been doing 25% w.c everyday for the last 4. Still have high nitrate...around 60. Nitrite and ammonia are fine.

Brad you say 3.0. WTF does that mean? LOL?

its the salinity of the salt content in the water.

 

[spotfin]

3 parts per thousand

 

[DB junkie]

Does this equate to a measurable value using a hydrometer?

I'm assuming it wouldn't register? Or is there such a thing as a freshwater hydrometer? LOL I know it sounds messed up but I figured some company out there by now has had to have come up with an accurate low range hydrometer that would be used in say brackish applications.

Any sure fire way of bringing nitrates down BESIDES water changes? In other words am I looking at an inadequate filtering situation? I'm under the impression that as long as the nitrite and ammonia stay 0 you have adequate filtration. Or does the ammount of filtration directly reflect Nitrate levels?

 

[stingrayguy]

Does this equate to a measurable value using a hydrometer?

I'm assuming it wouldn't register? Or is there such a thing as a freshwater hydrometer? LOL I know it sounds messed up but I figured some company out there by now has had to have come up with an accurate low range hydrometer that would be used in say brackish applications.

Any sure fire way of bringing nitrates down BESIDES water changes? In other words am I looking at an inadequate filtering situation? I'm under the impression that as long as the nitrite and ammonia stay 0 you have adequate filtration. Or does the ammount of filtration directly reflect Nitrate levels?

A pond test water kit will have a salt kit for fresh water.

 

[spotfin]

A decent hydrometer should be able to read 3 ppt. A refractometer would be better.