Cotton Mouth on EBJD

[joeypaul]

I jumped into my aquarium without doing the research, so I have been cycling for a month and a half. I have an EBJD who is being picked on by my other jack. Well now he has mouth fungus. It's cotton looking. None of my other fish have symptoms. I am almost done cycling. I have added gravel and filter media from another tank and do wcs of 30 percent daily. My ammonia was. 25 nitrites . 50 nitrates below 5. I don't want to screw up my cycle, or stress the other fish. I ise prime and salt. What can I do? I have no quarantine tank. I hope to save him, but not worth losing the bio filter. Help. Help please..

Joey Paul

 

[joeypaul]

Help please. I don't know what to do. I do wcs daily. I know he caught this from being picked on. I just don't want it to spread. He's a sickly little fish anyway. But trying to catch him will stress the others. And I am trying to finish the cycle on top of this. I am so lost here.

Joey Paul

 

[Aquanero]

Wow, that's some toxic brew you have going on in there, well it's a lesson learned.

The daly water changes are good I would add aquarium salt disolved at 3tsp per 5 gallons of aquarium water remember to add salt to the new water as well in an amount that will maintane the 3 tsp per 5 gal ratio.
This is best treated in a quarintene tank a small 10/15 gallon take is a prety cheap investment to make. The thing with fungas is not to elavate the temperature too much. The tank sould be kept at about 78 during the treatment. I would treat the tank as discribed above for about two weeks the trick with fungas is to catch it early or it becomes a pain to get rid of. Clean water and salt should do the trick for you. If you can get a small hospital tank for these instances it will make things much eaiser in the long run.

As a side note always qt new fish for a few (3) weeks before introducing them to the main display.

 

[duanes]

Even in the wild JDs and other fish get mouth fungus from sparing, for JDs you can add more salt, as many of the places they come from in nature would be considered brackish.
Where I snorkeled with them in Mexico, the water tasted very salty.

You can easily see the fungus on the one on the right.