Sick Ornate, revamp for Disease thread

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Please. If you would still like me to make a suggestion. Do you know what you're your treating if for?
 
We have a master kit, and she said 7, I will do it myself when I get home to check her ;). From the bichir disease thread it seems to be bacterial, was told to do mix of Pima- melfix and low aq salt due to pleco


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plecos have been known to suck the slime coat off of bichirs. This typically results in the death of the bichir. While i have never seen this first hand i have seen numerous posts on this forum regarding plecos killing bichirs and i have never attempted to keep them together. i would seperate the pleco and do extra water changes and see if the bichir recovers.
 
I would bet the pleco stripped the slime coat off it. This opened it up to infection. The slime coat protects the fish it's like having your skin peeled off. The red streaks sounds like septicimia an infection of the blood. My suggestion would be to seperate the two fish. As far as treatment goes, try using API Triple Sulfa and salt dosed at 1 tablespoon per ten gallons of water. The salt will help regenerate the slime coat while the 3x sulfa will fight the secondary infection. I like 3x sulfa in a higher Ph as it is generally more effective but should still work here reasonably well. Discontinue all the Pima/melafix oil based things like this IMO interfere with resperation and prevent adaquate transfer oxigen by coating the gills. MY .02 on that stuff. Kanamycin can be combined with 3x sulfa but may not be necessary so don't rush into it yet but it is great to have on hand. Get the 3x, seperate the fish and treat as I discribed. You have to get the bichir away from the pleco they are like ottos sucking the slime off discus if you've ever seen that once ottos get a taste for Discus slime you can't stop them, they are like remoras on them.
 
I will remove pleco tomorrow, in bed atm, thanks yall, can i get the above stuff at a chain, want to get as quick as possible
 
Hey he is getting slight color back and already through 2x treatments of triple sulphate and countless wc, still not much better but when should I stop the sulphate, stuff is getting expensive

Ps it is sulfa not sulphate


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It's called Triple sulfa. If it looks like it's getting it's color back that means the slime coat is rejuvinating. The 3x sulfa was used to prevent secondary infection while the slime coat was compromised. You can stop using it now if you feel the fish is recovering sufficiantly. Continue to use the salt at 1 tablespoon per ten gallons of water for the next few days. It should be fine after that. If you have any further issues please let us know.
 
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