very sick blue-spot, suggestions??? disagnosis???

[watson_barrett]

Started deteriorating a few weeks ago in display tank, finally got him out and into my Qt tank (45G).

I'm currently treating him w/ para-guard (fungus and parasite med)

Any other suggestions???

 

[addicted4life]

poor thing....I have tried 3 BSJF. First one lived for over 6months before wedging himself above the waterline on top of my tunze wavebox. Next one got the same look as yours after a few months of doing decent. Do the white splotches look like all color pigment has left the affected area ? I 'm afraid he is a gonner, looks pretty well set-in. I did bring one BSJF from looking like that back to healthy, but it only had one white spot area. I treated it with primaflex and milaflex (sp?) in a hospital tank immediately. After a few weeks, the fish's skin improved dramatically, so I introduced her to the main display where she died within a few weeks. I should have kept her in hospital tank longer. My 3rd BSJF jumped when I forgot to close my glass top.

 

[watson_barrett]

color

color

most of the color is gone in the bad areas but there is still a slight hint of the original color. Do you think a freshwater dip would help at all???

I knew he was in bad shape for a couple of weeks now but i couldn't get him out of my main display tank until yesterday.

He is even getting a slight hint of red around both sides where his gills are, any idea what that is from???

He is eating but hardly at all, i tried feeding him about 5 times today only saw him grab a few pieces of food, he seems like he is still skibby about coming out into the open water, i'm wondering if he is loosing his eye sight????

 

[watson_barrett]

just saw your other post suggesting agains a freshwater dip, i am feeling like i agree, maybe if he improved over the next few weeks, he is extreemly thin right now and in about as bad of shape as one can be in and still going....

i did have another question with regards to give him meds, should i just med the 45G tank he is in or should i net him and med him in a smaller 5G tank for a few hours a day so the dose would be more concentrated (more like i wouldn't have to use as much)???

 

[addicted4life]

That red is probably blood. Not sure why the BSJF get this. I've only found that mine improved when I did remove it from the community tank. That is what led me to believe it was stress related.

 

[watson_barrett]

I didn't realize that BSJF were so timed, i have all what i thought to be peaceful tankmakes, i figured he would hold his own in there....i did a good bit of reading and no where did i see about them being unsuited for a community tank...