Does my Sunfish has fungus? *vids inside*

[Tomgh]

Hi, suddenly my fish has weak teeth. They look soft and white and when he breaths (water) I see it flowing with the current. I hope thats correct English.
I tried to tape it, problem is the fish tank has super bright light for its size and it scares him so I usually keep the lights out.
Does anyone recognize the looks? I had fungus in my other fishtank but those fish had it on their fins. I had anti bacterial food but the green sunfish doesn't eat that.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ya7A0Ydo9k

 

[Lupin]

What other foods does it eat? Does it even eat them well?
What other symptoms have you observed so far?
How does its poop look?
Water parameters?
Temperature?

Looks like bacterial to me. Usually, for suspected bacterial issues, adding a teaspoon per gallon of salt (no yellow prussiate added) every 12 hours for 12-36 hours (depending on the tolerance of your fish) helps a lot to prevent bacteria from further infecting the fish while under surveillance for other symptoms.

What other antibiotics do you have access to? Don't treat yet though. Once a fish does not eat medicated foods, you'll need to treat directly the water.

 

[Tomgh]

Normally it eats grasshoppers, worms and maggots and artemia. But since yesterday it stopped eating at all. Two days ago I started using an anti fungus treatment but it didn't help. I read about mouth fungus online and the description matches, but it isn't a real fungus its indeed a bacteria.
I just put the fish in a bucket with a high concentrate of salt for a minute and than put him and the salt water in the fishtank. The water in the fishtank has about 1 teapsoon per gallon of water salt in it now.
Do I have to add the same amount of salt everyday? Where does the salt go thats already in the water?
I hope this helps anyway I'm already looking for a antibacteria in case it doesn't.
If he dies I'm never able to get a green sunfish in Holland again.

Water temperature is about 77 degree.
I'm not watching any parameters.

 

[Lupin]

I apologize for the delay of response.

To answer your question regarding salt, salt lingers in the water unless you do a water change. Only water changes can remove the salt so if you have to redose the salt, try to measure the salt and redose per the volume of water changed.

For instance, you attempt to remove 10 gallons. Dosage recommended to you is a teaspoon per gallon. Dose back 10 teaspoons after you are done with the water change.

What are the ingredients of this anti fungus med you used? Some ingredients for meds intended for fungus often works with bacterial issues since both fungus and bacterial issues are often misdiagnosed or even confused. You may consider kanamycin if your pH is above 7 otherwise use tetracycline. These meds have opposite effectiveness depending on your pH.

 

[Tomgh]

I used JBL Fungol
100 ml contain: N,N-dimethyl-4 (-p-dimethylamino)-diphenylmethylene)-2,5-cyclohexadienylidenammoniumchloride 20 mg Tris-(4-dimethylaminophenyl)-carboniumchloride 4 mg purified water ad 100 ml

But the salt has already worked.

First day: one minute in a 10 teaspoons/gallon salt
than I had him and the salt in the fishtank which gave me 1teaspoon/gallon in the tank.

Second day: the things on his lips were getting smaller, but his eyes got weak and vague I think because of the salt so I refreshed half of the water

Third day: One last time in the bucket with high concentrate of salt
and than put him back in a fully refreshed fishtank without salt
Now he's better and his eyes are back to normal aswel.
He's a bit in shock now, but that will get better in a few days I bet.

Thx for the help

 

[Lupin]

Ahh..That's good to hear.