Hi guys. This is my first post so I apologize if Im posting in the wrong thread.
About a month ago, my red wolf fish came down with a sickness. Before this he was extremely active. Looks like it was either ich or epistylis (photos of the spots is attached).
He isn't new to me and I fed him feeder fish once maybe a week or two before this (never will do this again). So I assume the sickness either came from them, or from stress. I asked my LPS about treatments for this and they gave me paraguard (Im in Canada and the selection of ich treatments is quite sparse). I started with a half dose and after a day the spots went away. The days following this he seemed to be a little irritated and would twitch his head aggressively and his breathing was pretty rapid. Looked as if he was gasping. I read into this and his symptoms looked along the lines of a paraguard overdose. I administered the half dose by diluting it in a small water bucket and poured it near the his cave. There isn't much flow in the tank so Im assuming it settled near his home and was too concentrated.
Through all of this I was doing about 30% water changes. Then 50% every day when I noticed the "overdose".
Its been about a month and he's been hiding in his cave ever since. He does come out a little at night but I can tell his energy is low. The times he does come out, he would thrash himself on rocks, plants, anything in the tank. My friend came over and I explained this to him and he told me he still may have ich. That made sense since it very much looked like he is trying to scratch himself. I decided to resume treatment this time without paraguard (in hopes not to overdose him) and I just bumped the temp slowly and added salt. After about 2 days of this, he busted his lip. I assume he was trying to scratch himself and he caused some damage to himself this was about 3 days ago (photo attached).
Then he stopped eating. Before this, even through his sickness he was eating just fine but now he cant be bothered to eat anything I used to feed him. Im not sure if this has to do with him being sick, or his injury. I've also recently noticed (this week) a red rash on his underbelly. This looks like its gotten worse as well. (photos attached)
My water parameters have been on point this whole time and my other fish (birchir, orange pike, and magnum pleco) look healthy and are eating fine.
Does anyone have any idea what can be causing this? I love this fish so much please help me save him!
About a month ago, my red wolf fish came down with a sickness. Before this he was extremely active. Looks like it was either ich or epistylis (photos of the spots is attached).
He isn't new to me and I fed him feeder fish once maybe a week or two before this (never will do this again). So I assume the sickness either came from them, or from stress. I asked my LPS about treatments for this and they gave me paraguard (Im in Canada and the selection of ich treatments is quite sparse). I started with a half dose and after a day the spots went away. The days following this he seemed to be a little irritated and would twitch his head aggressively and his breathing was pretty rapid. Looked as if he was gasping. I read into this and his symptoms looked along the lines of a paraguard overdose. I administered the half dose by diluting it in a small water bucket and poured it near the his cave. There isn't much flow in the tank so Im assuming it settled near his home and was too concentrated.
Through all of this I was doing about 30% water changes. Then 50% every day when I noticed the "overdose".
Its been about a month and he's been hiding in his cave ever since. He does come out a little at night but I can tell his energy is low. The times he does come out, he would thrash himself on rocks, plants, anything in the tank. My friend came over and I explained this to him and he told me he still may have ich. That made sense since it very much looked like he is trying to scratch himself. I decided to resume treatment this time without paraguard (in hopes not to overdose him) and I just bumped the temp slowly and added salt. After about 2 days of this, he busted his lip. I assume he was trying to scratch himself and he caused some damage to himself this was about 3 days ago (photo attached).
Then he stopped eating. Before this, even through his sickness he was eating just fine but now he cant be bothered to eat anything I used to feed him. Im not sure if this has to do with him being sick, or his injury. I've also recently noticed (this week) a red rash on his underbelly. This looks like its gotten worse as well. (photos attached)
My water parameters have been on point this whole time and my other fish (birchir, orange pike, and magnum pleco) look healthy and are eating fine.
Does anyone have any idea what can be causing this? I love this fish so much please help me save him!
