Umbee is messed up need help please!

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Happen overnight all his skin on his head and cheeks peeling and now has moved to his body, gills flaping fast other fish in the tank dont have anything wrong!

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dosnt look as fluffy, this looks like when you have a sun tan and you peel
 
The skin above lips are looking kind of fat, leading me to believe it is columnaris as well. The link below will give you some options to try. The poster had an umbee with columnaris.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?543236-15-quot-Umbee-Sick-Help!/page2

notho2000 said:
Columnaris (flexibacter - gram-negative)) I just pulled a large male Paraneetroplus breidohri from the brink of death. Start treatment right away by:
1. isolating the fish, making sure to use cooler water (~75F) and increase aeration.
2. Using a combination of Kanamycin (specific to gram-negative), and furazolidone/nitrofurazone (treats gram-positive (secondary infection) and gram-negative as well (Furan-2 from API) added to the water in the recommended dose. Also, even though kanamycin is absorbed through the skin of the fish, once he starts eating, soak some food in kanamycin and get him to ingest it.
3. Don't give up. It may take a week or so for improvement to be noticed (ie may get worse before it gets better).
4. If secondary fungus appears, I use methylene blue and/or pimafix. Also salt (1 tbsp per 5G) is effective against flexibacter too. Your case is going to be severe and if not treated, it's just a matter of time (can be sickeningly quick) before death occurs.
Here's a link that you might want to go to: http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...=yJTVVHTDj8a7RuqpQR8uYg&bvm=bv.47534661,d.aWc
Good info. Good luck.
Jim
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RD. said:
A study found in the second link that I posted previously. (http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/columnaris_disease.php#[4])


Characterization of four Flavobacterium columnare (Flexibacter columnaris) strains isolated from tropical fish.

Decostere A, Haesebrouck F, Devriese LA.
SourceLaboratory of Veterinary Bacteriology and Mycology, University of Gent, Merelbeke, Belgium.




The following are confirmed drugs of choice for this disease ...... chloramphenicol, erythromycin, furazolidone, kanamycin, lincomycin, nalidixic acid, oxytetracycline and streptomycin.


The sooner that you begin treatment, the greater the chances of your fish surviving.
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I don't think its duck lips his skin is just peeling off and he also has ich like specks on his body. It almost looks like a real bad case of ich or the closest I have found on line that it resembles is BODY SLIME FUNGUS??????
 
Furan -2 : Nitrofurazone inhibits several bacterial enzymes, especially those involved in the aerobic and anaerobic degradation of glucose and pyruvate. This antibacterial is effective for control of Flexibacter/Columnaris (Symptoms: Fuzzy, thin, white coating on the body and fins. Looks like a fungus) it works well with Kanamycin for difficult incidence of this pathogen

Kanamycin: Kanamycin works well combined with (& compliments) Nitrofurazone for flexibacter (Columnaris) (Symptoms: Fuzzy, thin, white coating on the body and fins. Looks like a fungus).

Both will not kill the bacteria in your media.
 
Thanks Guys, Problem is I cant get those meds till the morning. Heard about Mels Umbee Briefly, I did my usual water change he was fine after that later in the evening like Perfect, next day I see him and his mate gasping and his head looks like he scraped it on a rock. Figured they were chasing each other or something. She seems fine He is much worse today, Skin just peeling off and he don't eat. Its very strange. Thanks for the quick responses guys and help. I will let you know what happens
 
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