Flowerhorn Duck lip and eyeball missing

[Kelly_Aquatics]

Im so sorry he was a stunning fish RIP

 

[twentyleagues]

Hi guys. I went on a small vacation for a week whilst my dad took care of my flowerhorn. One of them- Named Platinum was always a healthy and generally lively and very agressive flowerhorn. he was known for being fiesty. I came back today (30 minutes ago) and came to check on all my flowerhorn and realised my baby boy Platinum had become all... broken... His lips were messed up and his eye was just this gelatin of distinergration. I have no idea waht happened, no idea what caused it all. I'm utterlydestroyed and have no idea what to do. This was him before.View attachment 1455364
This is him now.. ) :View attachment 1455365

It's destroying me, I can't bare to look at him suffering. I have no idea what happened within the week. He doesnt' deserve this. Please, anything will do. I have methyzondole or whatever you call it on hand already. I'll get any other medication required.

Wow that's bad. Sorry for your loss.

So. my gulper cat died a few weeks ago from slime coat. seeing im suffer broke me aswell. At that point when I got home there was nothing to do. You can try but theres no recovering from losing maybe both atleast 1 eye. Best of luck my friend.

Sorry you lost it, I hadn't heard but I know you were excited to get it. If you don't mind me asking what do you mean when you say "slime coat" all fish have a slime coat. It's not a disease I've heard of. I haven't heard of everything though.

 

[Cich Mind]

Hey IckyIcky ,
Sorry about your loss. How long did you have him? Becoming attached to a fish only for it to die sucks. You did what you could to save him. I really don't think there was much you could do about it in the end.

 

[IckyIcky]

Hey IckyIcky ,
Sorry about your loss. How long did you have him? Becoming attached to a fish only for it to die sucks. You did what you could to save him. I really don't think there was much you could do about it in the end.

Thanks for your condolences. I had him since August of last year. He was only a fry, so active and lively. I still miss him. He was so active and strong. Full of personality. Never hurt the ladies but always attacked whoever else came into the tank. Male or not. I don't think there was much at all. It's unfortunate. I had a dream about seeing him inside the same nursery, all healed up but with a smaller head and stressed out. But he was swimming and trying to talk to me. This sounds insane, I know, but he was truly a unique fish. He had waited until I came home only to pass away 5 minutes later. When I came home he turned to look at every member of the family before going into shock and starting to turn upside down.

 

[IckyIcky]

I’m so sorry. You did your best, crap happens to everyone. I’ve lost so many pets, it always sucks.
I would treat the other fish like it has columnaris and medicate just to be sure. Do some water changes too.

It's no worries anymore. He was my first fish death, and I wish it wasn't him. I wish it was never him. I'll medicate the old tank he was in and clean out the sponge filter to make sure. Water changes happens to all of my 13 fish tanks every 3 days. he was so precious. He was a Kamfa x thai silk we were told. Also the only named fish.

 

[Rocksor]

It's no worries anymore. He was my first fish death, and I wish it wasn't him. I wish it was never him. I'll medicate the old tank he was in and clean out the sponge filter to make sure. Water changes happens to all of my 13 fish tanks every 3 days. he was so precious. He was a Kamfa x thai silk we were told. Also the only named fish.

Sorry to hear about the loss. Columnaris can kill that quickly (24-48hours), so I have no doubt the fish was fine 2 days prior to you coming home

 

[Bbuckley]

Thanks for your reply everyone. I resorted to asking a flowerhorn enthusiast who was a really popular breeder in a group I was in. My dad and I cared for the flowerhorns, I just tended to them and told my dad when something was wrong/how to feed and traught him the temperature. He loved the flowerhorn. Truly. This one especially. He attended to the fish for the week whilst I was gone and said he cleanaed the water tank 2 days ago and that the fish was fine. I find that hard to believe, but I don't know if it's true. This is my first flowerhorn death within my first year of working with them. This little guy wasn't even a year old yet. He was only about 9 months old. He was also my future breeder.

Whilst I was discussing the medication with the other breeder, 5 minutes after I had posted about this (No replies yet, so I was completely clueless) He went into shock or something. He jumped out of the water again and again, and then slowly he started to turn around and lost his balance unable to swim. His gills were still moving as he went upside down, but slowly it started to move slowly, super slowly.

I did a Metro inside of a small 3ft tank with methylene blue and salt and put a barrier up with an airstone in front of him to keep him upright. His gills had seemed to stop moving at this point but the person I was talking with reassured me that he still saw him moving slightly. Fingers crossed. It's the next morning now and some colour has stripped off of his fins.

I checked one last time, and he's gone. I had a dream where he came back to life and was fine, lively. I woke up to much disappointment. Hopefully that was him telling me I tried hard enough, and that he's swimming happily in the fish afterlife. Corny it sounds. Haha

Thanks everyone though, I've learnt from the comments you've written about better treatment ect, I'm glad I'm not alone and can relate to some. : )

I'm so sorry you lost him unfortunately sometimes things like this happen and it can be completely out of our own hands, at least while he was hear you gave him a good quality of life and loved him he will be forever thankful for that.

Hope your doing well and hope your dad is doing well he sounds as invested as you are.

 

[IckyIcky]

Columnis kills very quickly. I have learn more and now I’ll focus on only getting better. I woke up this morning and another fish has duck lips (was his neighbouring fish.) It’s just got cotton wool but I feel like medicating the tank entirely to rid of the initial disease all together. Furan-2, I have a little bit of Metro left and I need to buy Kanaplex in my list. How should I treat them? I don’t have a car and I still go to school so I can’t get them online quick enough so I need to get my brother to take me to the aquarium to get some. I own methylene blue and I’m getting more aquarium salts.

What I did though is bump down the 2 filters to 22 degrees. Is that too low/high? I'm Australian so my degrees differs haha