Lymphocystis

[bullitr]

I am currently doing hypo salinity on my 435 gallon display for over 3 weeks now and maybe due to aggression of my tiny rock beauty and asfur the lymphocystis spread. I added some melafix this morning to prevent more bacterial infection and turn off the skimmer. After 7 days I might increased the salinity if they don't get better and be done with hypo salinity for now. Also plan to put the ozone back on to sanitized the water.

anymore suggestion?
Thanks

 

[Deinonych]

Lymphocystis is caused by a virus. You can't treat it with meds or hypo. Good nutrition and good water quality will help your fish beat the disease.

 

[SteelMastiff]

I actually had surprising results recently using Paraguard to treat a newly acquired Spotbreast Angel. It cleared the external lumps, including a rather large cauliflower lesion on it's forehead in just a few days.

Like already mentioned, being viral it will need to run it's course internally, but it did clear the external symptoms for me.

I did read a thread on Seachem's support board where a support tech said it will kill the virus in the water column thus preventing it from spreading to tank mates.

You would want to treat the fish in a hospital tank, a tank as large as yours would require gallons of Paraguard, it needs to be dosed daily to be effective.

 

[bullitr]

Lymphocystis is caused by a virus. You can't treat it with meds or hypo. Good nutrition and good water quality will help your fish beat the disease.

I am stating that I am currently in hyposalinity for more than 3 weeks and I abounding it so the water quality is back to normal. My skimmer is skimming but not as well. So I am increasing salinity back to 1.025.
The meds is to prevent further infection and ozone to disinfect the water passing thru it.

 

[bullitr]

I actually had surprising results recently using Paraguard to treat a newly acquired Spotbreast Angel. It cleared the external lumps, including a rather large cauliflower lesion on it's forehead in just a few days.

Like already mentioned, being viral it will need to run it's course internally, but it did clear the external symptoms for me.

I did read a thread on Seachem's support board where a support tech said it will kill the virus in the water column thus preventing it from spreading to tank mates.

You would want to treat the fish in a hospital tank, a tank as large as yours would require gallons of Paraguard, it needs to be dosed daily to be effective.

There is no anti viral medication for fish that I can think off.
I think i can sanitized the tank with 2 ways ozone or high powered UV

 

[SteelMastiff]

There is no anti viral medication for fish that I can think off.
I think i can sanitized the tank with 2 ways ozone or high powered UV

I had the Spotbreast, and a Redstripe in quarantine for 4 weeks prior to dosing with Paraguard in hopes the external symptoms would start to clear, and in fact they only got worse.

Seachem list's that Paraguard works for viral infections, to which I thought Bravo Sierra, nothing that I was aware of would do anything for a Virus. But I thought what do I have to lose and gave it a shot, and perhaps by fluke it actually worked; snake oil perhaps not, at least in this one instance. Take it for what it's worth, but it honestly worked for me.