Fungus on Eel

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cephalofoil

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Hey everyone,

I started working a a pet store and we got a shipment of eels (Macrognathus siamensis) and several of them have white fungus on their bodies. I'm pretty sure it's fungus though it could be ammonia burn. It's white fuzzy stuff around the head and body of some in patches.

pH - 7.0-7.5
ammonia - 0
nitrite - 0
nitrate - 10 ppm
temp - 23 celsius (74 deg F)

can't remember specific phosphates, but i know they're high, the tank is one of 6 linked together via a 50 gallon sump.

what should i do to treat? there are no hospital tanks, unless i can convince the store manager to let me use some stuff and mark it as store use.

Nobody else cares about the fish, so I want to do the best I can with the fishes best interest in mind. My first idea was up the temp and add some salt, thought i'm not sure how much salt to add since scaleless fish are sensitive to that kind of stuff.

thanks!
 
any other ideas? i won't be in again till thursday so i wanna have a game plan ready. i'm planning on turning off the returns to the tank so i can isolate any treatments to their specific tank and also run a single heater to the tank since it won't be getting warm water from the heaters in the sump.

i can find the volume of the tank asap. i can add an airstone if needed as well.

edit: tank is 90 gallons.
 
cephalofoil said:
anyone have a good salt concentration? would 1 tbsp/5 gallons be too much? pimafix would help?
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That should be fine. Do you have a hydrometer? If so you can get it up to 1.005. And do salt baths once a day at 1.023 for just a few mins start with 1 min and see how they do take them out if they start to stress to much I wouldn't go over 3 mins with the bath . Pimafix wouldn't hurt. What store are you working at?
 
Also does your store have any rules for treatment?
 
Fishysweet said:
That should be fine. Do you have a hydrometer? If so you can get it up to 1.005. And do salt baths once a day at 1.023 for just a few mins start with 1 min and see how they do take them out if they start to stress to much I wouldn't go over 3 mins with the bath . Pimafix wouldn't hurt. What store are you working at?
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Fishysweet said:
Also does your store have any rules for treatment?
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i work at a Petland. I'm not 100% sure on the rules for treatment, they do mention treating injured fish and reptiles on the daily tasks but I haven't seen any medications other than aquarium salt and "nox-ich" which we store our nets in.

i'll check what our "store use" sheet says and see what i can scrounge up when it comes to the hydrometer and pimafix. Out of everyone there I know the most about fish species so if I can use layman terms when explaining the treatment to the other workers it would be ideal since i'm not there everyday.

Right now for sure I know i can use salt, and i have an extra heater for when i shut off the tank from the rest of the system.

If i can set up a hospital tank i will, and maybe steal an AC110 off the feeder tank during treatment. I don't think any fish at the store has ever been treated. I've seen lots of stringy white poop come from a tank of gouramis. Half the people don't know what the fish are let alone if something is wrong.
 
Man I was fish and reptile manager at a petland about 7 years ago it was the best. The owners really cared about the animals and I could order what ever I want from any vendors I picked it was awesome I hated leaving there I got married and moved. But anyways alot can change in that time but there wasn't any rules about fish care. Do you have the 75 gals with the sponge filters or sumps or both? Or Something Like A Mars system? If you don't know take some pics of the tanks. Do you have freshwater brackish and saltwater? Make sure to change net water daily. Let me know what you can use meds wise. can you just store use something off the shelf? Or do you need to order it?You need to be very blunt about the needs of the fish tell then without proper care they will die and they will lose money. With proper care they will thrive and they will make money.there needs to be someone that knows how to take care of them everyday.see about getting other people trained. Do You Order and price The fish? Also you need to figure out what the owners care more about the animals or money and use that to your advantage.
 
Fishysweet said:
Man I was fish and reptile manager at a petland about 7 years ago it was the best. The owners really cared about the animals and I could order what ever I want from any vendors I picked it was awesome I hated leaving there I got married and moved. But anyways alot can change in that time but there wasn't any rules about fish care. Do you have the 75 gals with the sponge filters or sumps or both? Or Something Like A Mars system? If you don't know take some pics of the tanks. Do you have freshwater brackish and saltwater? Make sure to change net water daily. Let me know what you can use meds wise. can you just store use something off the shelf? Or do you need to order it?You need to be very blunt about the needs of the fish tell then without proper care they will die and they will lose money. With proper care they will thrive and they will make money.there needs to be someone that knows how to take care of them everyday.see about getting other people trained. Do You Order and price The fish? Also you need to figure out what the owners care more about the animals or money and use that to your advantage.
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I'm the acting fish manager now. They realized I know fish better than anyone else there and asked if I wanted to be promoted after 5 shifts.

We have 5 systems all with sumps. There are 6 Pentagon shaped 90 gallons linked together with the eels in one.

Net tanks changed every morning.

No brackish or marine setups. If I can set up one system as brackish I will, we have several brackish species that were ordered in the past that aren't selling.

I can check the list of store use meds at my disposal once I'm at work today. We only need to get approval for things like replacement bulbs and stuff.

I'm in charge of orders at the moment and we have a calculator that figures out prices.

I'm gonna try to teach as much as I can to the other workers when I'm in.

We lose an exorbitant amount of fish daily because there is no treatment done on them (since people don't recognize fish health issues) and maintenance is skimmed over. The sumps were terrible before I got there, sponges not rinsed for months after months of overfeeding.

I'll post later tonight after I check my store use list.

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