very very very sick coral cat

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Candiru
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I just "inherited" a very sick coral cat shark. She has the standard red belly, holes that are slightly swollen and red around the outside (SEE PICTURE), her dorsal fins were either nipped at the tips or are eroding and her belly might be a little swollen, almost as if she ate too much.

I already started treating with prazipro. Anyone have any ideas what all this could be? This is what i think happened. The holes are from flukes or leaches, which brought about a bacterial infection or fungal infection.
Is all of this contagious to other healthy sharks? Are there any commonly available medications i could treat her with? OR is it just too late?

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The shark is otherwise active, swimming around as if nothings wrong. I havent fed yet so i dont know about appetite. But if you didnt closely inspect, or notice the small pieces of fin missing, you wouldnt think anythings wrong.
 
Shark has been moved to the hospital and is being treated with PraziPro and erythromycin. Hopefully that will do the trick. But if anyone can ID that mark on its belly i would appreciate it. The sharks nose is now red as well. So red belly and nose, holes on stomach and eroding fins.
 
What was it being housed with before you rescued it?
 
not really sure. obviously there was poor water quality because even spending 24 hrs untreated but in good water, some of the redness cleared up on the underside.
 
that hole in the picture is the largest of several, all on the underside.
 
Hard to tell, but they look like puncture wounds from something like a lion.
 
hmmm, thats a possibility that never crossed my mind. I was thinking more along the lines of a fluke or nematode sore that became infected leading to the eroding fins and red belly. But it could have been a lion too. I dont know.

Good idea though jabba, ill have to find out, if i can, what it was housed with.
 
Beautiful fish :)
Hope it gets better.
But it's good that he's swimming around like nothing's wrong.
 
Thanks. To be honest with you, i think it will be alright. Coral cats, in my experience, would live through a nuclear holocaust.
 
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