Help with fungal outbreak please

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jsodwi

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Sunday morning i noticed one of my aros staying toward the bottom which is very unusual for them. A closer look revealed that a couple of fish were developing a body fungus . Not sure what happened the tank has been running for a year. Stock has not changed. The tank is on an auto changer which does 70g per day. When it does this the temp only drops 2 degrees. Ive been adding salt daily. Melafix daily. Temp at 83-84. And set the auto changer to do an additional 50g every other day at separate times not to drop the temp. Most fish have eaten yesterday but i have a couple of expensive not easily replacable fish that seem to be getting hit harder than others. The tank is a 750g. And there is one ray in the mix as well. Any suggestions would be appreciated
 
Also water parameters ammonia-0.0. Nitrite 0.0. Nitrate. Under 10ppm. Thanks for the link. More noticable on my pbass looks like a hazy film on parts of him
 
jsodwi;4762155; said:
Also water parameters ammonia-0.0. Nitrite 0.0. Nitrate. Under 10ppm. Thanks for the link. More noticable on my pbass looks like a hazy film on parts of him

Yeah, hazy film is definitely not fungus. IMO, you've got a columnaris outbreak.
 
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