white patches on jardidi, doesnt look like ich

[Tanngo]

hi
my jardini have develop white patches on the body, megaflix didnt cure it, just add salt and raise temp up yesterday, can any offer advise on what to do, or what kind of disease this is?

 

[monsterkeeper87]

Looks like a type of fungus to me so I would buy some treatment for that, most of the treatments are unaffected by the heat and salt method but with the temp and if you add meds the oxygen levels can drop so I recommend putting a strong bubbler in there, this should clear up quite fast with meds and after that keep an eye on your fish's stress and also water perimeters because that can ( but not always ) be a cause if this


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[Miguel]

Is it just white colour or is there a kind of amall pimple?

See how it dvelops before going to more extreme stuff...

 

[Tanngo]

the white stuff will sometime fall off and stick to the bottom of tank. If looked closely at the infected scale, u can see web like pattern and blood vessel behind it

 

[Miguel]

I woud try a different approach.

Do a water change.
Dose the tank liberally with Aquarium Salt ( not your kitchen variant which has iodine ) and lower the temps.

And then let us follow this for the next ciouple of days.

is it eating?

 

[monsterkeeper87]

Maybe a slower approach is a better place to start but I still say it seems like a fungal infection to me and IME I haven't known it to be cured by salt and temp alone, but instead of just dosing meds it might be worth keeping water clean and seeing how it go's incase I am wrong...


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[Miguel]

We are all on unchartered waters Shame.

We all just do out best as empirical hobbyists.

 

[Aquanero]

This looks like Aeromonas punctata or Aromonad Septicemias, while it shows cinical signs of this, in some instances it doesn't, so it's diffacult to be sure from the pictures and discription to be 100% sure. You could try treating with a gram negative or broad spectrum antibiotic. Oxytetracycline or API Tetracycline can be used or maybe a Maracyn/Maracyn 2 combination. In your discription the blood behind the scale is what lead me to think this could also be some type of septicemia or combination of bacterium. This is my best guess from what I see. HTH

 

[Tanngo]

this been going for a while now, the scale just look like it cover in white slime. I have use melafix, i seem it get a little better but then back to the same as before. I change 30% water and just salt the tank with 1 teaspoon per 5 gallon. and increase temp to 89F. Do I have to salt it daily or just 1 time? Maybe i ll look for the tetracycline as aquanero mention or some fungus medicine.
ohh, and the fish apptite doesnt goes down, alway been an agressive eater. Just dry food no live feed.

 

[Miguel]

A fish that eats is a fish that wants to live. Great sign.
You jat put salt to replace the amount lost with w change.
I would go to lower temps. I find these things temd to develop less with cold....