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Can you pull him out and place in a qt? This may warrant metro, furan 2, and kanaplex. How long have you had him?

If you are unable to pull him out of the tank, you can try binding kanaplex with focus to his food.
 
JustinM said:
Can you pull him out and place in a qt? This may warrant metro, furan 2, and kanaplex. How long have you had him?

If you are unable to pull him out of the tank, you can try binding kanaplex with focus to his food.
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So you can't tell what it is that's on him ? Infection some sort ?



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It definitely looks bacterial. My guess would be it’s a gram positive infection because he has a few scrapes that may have become infected. If it is gram positive, he should be able to fight it off. It never hurts to vitamin soak his food in the mean time and have the correct meds on hand.

When did you first notice this and how long did it take to get to this point?
 
Strange completely different diagnosis, need to know more information, about fish and tank mates, along with this particular fish, eating habits?

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JustinM said:
It definitely looks bacterial. My guess would be it's a gram positive infection because he has a few scrapes that may have become infected. If it is gram positive, he should be able to fight it off. It never hurts to vitamin soak his food in the mean time and have the correct meds on hand.

When did you first notice this and how long did it take to get to this point?
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He was fine 2 days ago eating everything then the next day he was wobbling swimming and barely ate


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+1 this is a bacterial infection caused by the injury this will need treatmen. If can get him in a qt use Kanaplex metroplex and furan 2 if you you don't have all three use whichever you you can get at you Lfs. If you don't have a qt try feeding Kanaplex and or metroplex with focus in the dt
 
Bacteria is always living in our aquariums. Most of the time fish can fight it off but something stress can lower their immune system and make it harder.

An acriflavine bath prior to treatment would help heal any wound there is, then 10 days of antibiotics.
 
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Sorry to hear as well. It’s so hard to differentiate between gram negative and positive. This was more than likely negative to kill that fast.
 
JustinM said:
Sorry to hear as well. It's so hard to differentiate between gram negative and positive. This was more than likely negative to kill that fast.
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I really do think my eel bit him causing the infection because you can see two spots


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