Cichla Wound
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I don't know y'all... I've been treating with binox and daily WCs for over 2
Weeks now, salt for a week of that time. He was eating good at first, not recently. The wound seems to have improved with some of the swelling gone down some. I'm pretty sure the culprit was a large super red Severum with a bad disposition, since removed. I've been watching(sleeping) next to the tank and the Dats seem to only squabble inter species. I mean the wound initially looked down to the muscle. Know it just look like a giant hole filled with a glob of puss. Would cleaning it out and treating with iodine help? If so what would be the safest way?
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Weeks now, salt for a week of that time. He was eating good at first, not recently. The wound seems to have improved with some of the swelling gone down some. I'm pretty sure the culprit was a large super red Severum with a bad disposition, since removed. I've been watching(sleeping) next to the tank and the Dats seem to only squabble inter species. I mean the wound initially looked down to the muscle. Know it just look like a giant hole filled with a glob of puss. Would cleaning it out and treating with iodine help? If so what would be the safest way?
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Cichlids that fight a lot have the ability to heal their skin damage far easier than more peaceful fish as long as your water is perfect. Crowded large predatory cichlid water is almost never perfect. Make the extra effort to see that it is or NO treatment will be effective.
When I used to breed Philippine Blue Angels, a very weak mutation, and they got a surface wound, I often had to use undiluted hydrogen peroxide on a cue-tip to sizzle off the white nasty infection down to the clean tissue, after that the wound would close and heal quickly on it's own. Your larger fish might require a cotton ball instead of a cue-tip though, just don't drip even a drop of the hydrogen peroxide into the gills. (that will seriously destroy the part of the gills it touches) If your water quality is good, which is difficult in a tank full of large preditors, it will heal up quickly after the HP treatment. Getting a few drops of the HP into the tank water will not damage the fish and will only turn into oxygen itself. Don't get more than a few drops total into the tank when you return the fish to the tank.
When I used to breed Philippine Blue Angels, a very weak mutation, and they got a surface wound, I often had to use undiluted hydrogen peroxide on a cue-tip to sizzle off the white nasty infection down to the clean tissue, after that the wound would close and heal quickly on it's own. Your larger fish might require a cotton ball instead of a cue-tip though, just don't drip even a drop of the hydrogen peroxide into the gills. (that will seriously destroy the part of the gills it touches) If your water quality is good, which is difficult in a tank full of large preditors, it will heal up quickly after the HP treatment. Getting a few drops of the HP into the tank water will not damage the fish and will only turn into oxygen itself. Don't get more than a few drops total into the tank when you return the fish to the tank.
Thanks a lot for the advice. I will try the HP treatment tomorrow. By the way I have a 180 gallon with 2 Cichla and 2 dats. Filtered by two fx-5s, 2 Ehiems and 2 ac110s, a pond UV and I perform at Least a 50 percent WC weekly, normally.
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I've been treating with salt, Binox, peroxide cleaning and daily water changes for 2 weeks now. His appetite and behavior have normalized but the wound looks like its spreading. What else can I do??? Prazi? Please Help!
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Prazi won't help it's for parasites. Maybe Melafix, I've also used epsom salt. I think the key is clean and salt, which it sounds like your doing. Post some pics again and maybe someone will see something new now that it's tried to heal.
