Need some input

[Mr Pleco]

I was away for a few days, when I came back. My flowerhorn was not acting right. No tail wagging and begging for food.. I did a 30% water change, then tested the water parameters a few hours later, nothing was out of range.

Then I noticed the dreaded white stringy mucus being disharged.
I immediatley treated the tank with jungle Parasite guard....
Did a 25% water change the next day and retreated... No improvement, raised the tank temp a few degrees and waited.....Needless to say he's not responding to any treatment ... waited a day then did another 25% water change and treated tank with carbon to pull all meds out of the tank...

Today I treated with Metronidazole....


Looking for input as the discharge continues and as I'm afraid this is not going to end well...

any ideas?

 

[Lupin]

Give Metro 5 days. You should have tried metro first before anything else as it is not as harsh as others are.

 

[Sab_Fan]

if you used Jungle Parasite Clear, it doesn't sound like you used it as directed (?)

you would have changed 25% of the water 48 hours after the first treatment, not the next day . . . and a full course of treatment is 3 doses over six days . . . I did this just a few weeks ago on my main tank, and it worked perfectly

also, a key indgredient in JPL is metronidazole . . .

 

[Mr Pleco]

The mucous discharge has stopped.. He's still not himself , stomach area looks swollen??
Anyway I did a 50% water change today and placed purigen in the sump to clean up any medicines and organics in the water... I'll change another 50% tomorrow ...Then go back to his routine of bi weekly water changes...
Hopefully he will improve over time...placed a few baby convicts in his tank from my breeding program. In case his appetite returns.

 

[Mr Pleco]

if you used Jungle Parasite Clear, it doesn't sound like you used it as directed (?)

you would have changed 25% of the water 48 hours after the first treatment, not the next day . . . and a full course of treatment is 3 doses over six days . . . I did this just a few weeks ago on my main tank, and it worked perfectly

also, a key indgredient in JPL is metronidazole . . .

I was a little impatient, in that every time I changed water I retreated the tank with a full dose...so he recvd 4 doses over as many days.

 

[Sab_Fan]

I was a little impatient, in that every time I changed water I retreated the tank with a full dose...so he recvd 4 doses over as many days.

no worries . . . I've observed from your posts that you are pretty sharp about these things, so I was just making sure

Purigen might not be the best way to remove the old meds, I'd use old-school carbon to do it . . . even Seachem will say they aren't sure what effect Purigen will have on certain meds (although they do recommend removing it when medicating)

 

[Mr Pleco]

Purigen might not be the best way to remove the old meds, I'd use old-school carbon to do it . . . even Seachem will say they aren't sure what effect Purigen will have on certain meds (although they do recommend removing it when medicating)

Sab_fan thanks for the input I'll go p/u some carbon today and treat tank.
FYI looked at purigen this morning the outside layer is colored "pink" not the usual tan to brown??