Got a new marbled female. Not so great

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spotfin said:
Oh my, good luck with her. Can you separate her from the other ray and aro?
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Well there isn't a point now. Once a fish has been infected with columnaris you pretty much infected all the fish in your tank. So now this entire tank is a quarantine tank... I fee that the female is moving about means it's calmed down but isn't feeling healthy because of the mysterious disease which I think is columnaris. I put salt to improve gill function and shorten life span of columnaris. And put the furan2 to somehow kill it. I don't expect immediate results but I would like my ray to eat. She is getting kinda milky substance on her disc which I believe is the thin strands of the columnaris invisible to the naked eye that is dying off.
 
I meant separate her in the tank from the other fish. Grim outlook I'm afraid.
 
Jesseliu13 said:
Well there isn't a point now. Once a fish has been infected with columnaris you pretty much infected all the fish in your tank. So now this entire tank is a quarantine tank... I fee that the female is moving about means it's calmed down but isn't feeling healthy because of the mysterious disease which I think is columnaris. I put salt to improve gill function and shorten life span of columnaris. And put the furan2 to somehow kill it. I don't expect immediate results but I would like my ray to eat. She is getting kinda milky substance on her disc which I believe is the thin strands of the columnaris invisible to the naked eye that is dying off.
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Well put this one down in the book as a lesson learned hard...
 
Jesseliu13 said:
Well there isn't a point now. Once a fish has been infected with columnaris you pretty much infected all the fish in your tank. So now this entire tank is a quarantine tank... I fee that the female is moving about means it's calmed down but isn't feeling healthy because of the mysterious disease which I think is columnaris. I put salt to improve gill function and shorten life span of columnaris. And put the furan2 to somehow kill it. I don't expect immediate results but I would like my ray to eat. She is getting kinda milky substance on her disc which I believe is the thin strands of the columnaris invisible to the naked eye that is dying off.
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I no there isn't no point seperating from a infection point of view but stress wise might be best to separate ?
 
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i made a seperator last night out of lighting diffuser i found lying around from when i was building sumps. looked at her when i woke up. The columnaris has now spread throughout her body. her body is covered in white though i treated her yesterday. She is now beginning to breath heavily. Not a good sign. I added more salt in to increase the gill function and hopefully kill off some of the columnaris. I have been slowly raising the salinity to make sure there was no shock.
 
Only way I ever killed columnaris on my Scats was to catch them and use Methylene Blue Directly on it. Worked immediately. No Meds worked for me.
 
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yeah, doesnt seem like the furan2 is working. it actually looks like it accelerated the process... But unfortunately i believe this ray is unsavable. from the way she was moving about and breathing i dont think she will last tomorow. its unfortunate :/ ive brought stuff from imports before, this is the first one to have such as bad stress attack. the rest came in fine.
 
yes its quite unfortunately. i medicated ad nuked my bacteria colony for nothing... thankfully i have spare media i can split and switch in other sumps. I did a good 70% water change to try to get the green color from the medicine out of my water. I will be buying some carbon to try to drain out the color.
 
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