Sick gourami

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One of my sparkling gouramis has suddenly become very sick. He has white, fuzzy splotches on his sides that are too big to be ich, red inflamations around his pectoral fins, and torn and tattered fins. Anyone have any idea what this is? He wobbles when he swims too.
 
Symptoms: Tufts of dirty, cotton-like growth on the skin, can cover large areas of the fish, fish eggs turn white.

Fungal attacks always follow some other health problem like parasitic attack, injury, or bacterial infection. The symptoms are a gray or whitish growth in and on the skin and/or fins of the fish. Eventually, if left untreated, these growths will become cottony looking. The fungus, if left untreated, will eventually eat away on the fish until it finally dies.
After ascertaining the initial cause of the fungus and remedying that, use a solution of phenoxethol at 1% in distilled water. Add 10 ml of this solution per liter of aquarium water. Repeat after a few days if needed, but only once more as three treatments could be dangerous to aquarium inhabitants. If the symptoms are severe the fish can be removed from the aquarium and swabbed with a cloth that has been treated with small amounts of povidone iodine or mercurochrome.
For attacks on fish eggs, most breeders will use a solution of methylene blue adding 3 to 5 mg/l as a preventative measure after the eggs are laid.

Sounds like Saprolegnia as described above.
 
Thanks for the help! Will Maracyn work? I have that, Maracyn-Two, T.C. Tetracycline, and Ick treatment.

Never mind, it's too late. He's dead :(
 
Awww, so sorry to hear that. But you probably still need to figure out what caused this and address the situation. Or more of your fish are likely to come down with the same thing.
 
lighthouse39183;2928611; said:
Awww, so sorry to hear that. But you probably still need to figure out what caused this and address the situation. Or more of your fish are likely to come down with the same thing.

I'm definitely keeping that in mind. I'm going to keep treating the problem.
 
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