Floating Dwarft

[L_beni]

Hello

I got a few weeks ago my first dwarft seahorses, they live in a 2.5 Gallon thank with a sponge filter at 70-74°F and a salinity of 30ppt.
Feddes once a day with 15% waterchange every day and 50% once a week.


after 3 Week one (of my 2) cuples were death, so I did a 50% water change and finaly i separated them (the last cuple) into a hospital with 10mg/L penicillin and streptomycin. after 3 days, the mal start to float and had Tail rot diseas (ther is no air in the punch) se I additionaly added Kanamycin 12.5mg/L and methylene blue. now the mail is floating still after 4 days, so I started preashure threatment. but eaven in the prashure bottle the mail swimms to the top!


what else can I do?


Thanks

greitngs Beni

 

[JHemdal]

Hello Beni,

Welcome ot Reef Central.

Do you know what pressure you took the down fish to? I generally find that one atmosphere, or 15 pounds per square inch will relieve the floating symptoms in most fish (but won't cure them).
Seahorses are so prone to Uronema infections (and these are so often misidentified as "tail rot") that I am not sure that your fish have a bacterial infection. To make matters worse, you can often have Uronema AND bacterial infections in the same seahorse.
Try doing a search here on "gas bubble disease" or GBD. Chloroquine can kill Uronema, but it must be used early on, before any of the fish die. Once Uronema gets started, it really cannot be cured (these protozoans live betweeen the fish's cells).

Jay

 

[L_beni]

Hello Jay


I do the preasure threatment using a PET bottle and apliing Preasure, so I do not know the exact preasure...

In google I found this book abaut Uronema:
http://books.google.ch/books?id=SAd...EwATgK#v=onepage&q=Uronema infections&f=false

page 104 the write the threatment is methylene blue, which i do already since 4 days... But it does not help.
I will search for Chloroquine....


thanks

Greetings Beni

 

[L_beni]

Should I also start a threatment with Acetazolamide?