lollypop
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Hello everyone.
hoping someone will reply to this as i think the update on the other post got missed.
I'm starting to get to the point where i want to tear my hair out.
got a new little girl a month or so back, and she wasnt happy, she'd had a long car journey, and was bloted a bit. and she was stressing really badley (sp?) only had the most minisulest bit of pellet. so i thought she was constipated, gave her a few days to settle down, and the plan was to fridge her if there was no movement. there wasnt and she got a bit of fluff on her gill. so she whent straight in the fridge and i started giving her salt bath's. four day's later fluff had fallen off,
all's well i thought, and as there was a little warm snap here, i decided to keep her in the fridge a bit longer (the tank that is hers was getting up to 22 thats why i decided to keep her in the fridge, it also gave me time to sort out a way of keeping that one lower, i have another two lottle tanks that stay at 19, and even when its well hot they dont get above 21)
so anyway. the fungus came back while she was in the fridge, and boy has it come back with a vengance.
her gills are getting smaller (not sure if that is because she is in the fridge) but also because she has fungus on them as well, she has got it on three of her feet, and now it looks like the tip of her tail as well. she is starting to get a red line round what i would call her ankle, so i think the fungus is starting to i'm not sure what, but infect internally i spose.
i have been giving salt baths daily for about a week and a half now, (i cant do twice a day) and offering her food at every water change. she has only once taken anything and it was the most tiny bit of fish, i know the apitite is surpressed when in the fridge, and she dosnt seem to have lost weight, she has passed one motion when she first whent in, (small and solid) but if she is not eating would it be unusual not to see any more.
sorry for the long long post, trying to get it all in.
basically what can i do now. the fungus is not comming off with the salt baths this time, there just getting worse. is there another step i can take, or is it just persiverance.
help please
thank you.
laura
hoping someone will reply to this as i think the update on the other post got missed.
I'm starting to get to the point where i want to tear my hair out.
got a new little girl a month or so back, and she wasnt happy, she'd had a long car journey, and was bloted a bit. and she was stressing really badley (sp?) only had the most minisulest bit of pellet. so i thought she was constipated, gave her a few days to settle down, and the plan was to fridge her if there was no movement. there wasnt and she got a bit of fluff on her gill. so she whent straight in the fridge and i started giving her salt bath's. four day's later fluff had fallen off,
all's well i thought, and as there was a little warm snap here, i decided to keep her in the fridge a bit longer (the tank that is hers was getting up to 22 thats why i decided to keep her in the fridge, it also gave me time to sort out a way of keeping that one lower, i have another two lottle tanks that stay at 19, and even when its well hot they dont get above 21)
so anyway. the fungus came back while she was in the fridge, and boy has it come back with a vengance.
her gills are getting smaller (not sure if that is because she is in the fridge) but also because she has fungus on them as well, she has got it on three of her feet, and now it looks like the tip of her tail as well. she is starting to get a red line round what i would call her ankle, so i think the fungus is starting to i'm not sure what, but infect internally i spose.
i have been giving salt baths daily for about a week and a half now, (i cant do twice a day) and offering her food at every water change. she has only once taken anything and it was the most tiny bit of fish, i know the apitite is surpressed when in the fridge, and she dosnt seem to have lost weight, she has passed one motion when she first whent in, (small and solid) but if she is not eating would it be unusual not to see any more.
sorry for the long long post, trying to get it all in.
basically what can i do now. the fungus is not comming off with the salt baths this time, there just getting worse. is there another step i can take, or is it just persiverance.
help please
thank you.
laura