Sick Cichlids.....

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ryanc2106

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today i woke up and notice my 60 gallon african tank was lil bit unclear maybe due to the heat (so cal) so i say ok ill change 50% today anywyas im looking at my OB peacock and notice a white thing of like cotton all around his back tail and a lil bit on his mouth (pretty bad around his mouth) and so i took him out (no hospital tank) and put him in a 10 gallon bucket treated the water for tap water and added pima fix... and added a lil more pima fix in my community tank for hopefully none of my other cichlids will get it..


now what can i do for my 60 gallon maajor water change like 75%? add salt? and more medicine in it after the water change? the temp is at 80 right now ??


help please and what else can i do about my sick OB????
 
the temp is at 80 the cotton stuff is all around his/her tail and some on his her right side and a lil bit on the mouth..

help please...
 
my heater was at 79 kept the tank at 78 (good for cihclids) and then heat here in cali bumped the temp to 82 droped the heater down to 72 and the temp of the tank is at 80 or 70..


should i keep the sick fish in the bucket or try to get a small hospital tank for him??
and should i take all the rock and plants out and clean them ??
 
The sick ons fungus stuff kinda plopped off while in the bucket i nettet the stuff and flushed it the ob swam a lil more but looks in bad condion just in a buckted with clean water and medication and some salt should i add him back in the community tank the tank cleared up alot since i added the salt and medicane i still need to do a water change before add the ob back but the other cihclids dont look sick...?/


what can i doo?
 
******Up date********

The sick one that had the fungus bad on the tail i took out and put it in a bucket and todya i got a Hospital tank off craigs list a lil eclipse 10 gallon and another 20 gallon with everything for 20 bucks i got the eclipse tank running for 30 minutes with heater tryuing to get it at 82 before i added the OB i put pima flix and salt and treated the tap water now shes in there she swiming down kind picking at the sand???? why??
and the fungus around her whole back fin is not there but her back fin seems like its not even there no more only a lil peice on top that dangles and her anal fin seems eaten up too how much should i feed the OB in the HT???

and the other in my community tank seem to be ok i treated that water and added salt aswell ill do i WC tomorrow on it but the water cleared up alot since this morning....
 
got a lil one now... if his/her tails fall off whats the worst that will happen and will it grow back???
 
fisrt pic is of his rotting tail..what u guys think???

second is of new HT...

tail.jpg

HT.jpg
 
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