How to treat fungus ?

White fuzzy material on the tail usually means fungus that normally
shows up after a parasitic infection, treat with Quick Cure, which has
formaldehyde for the parasites and malachite green for the fungus. I
would do a large water change (25%-50%) remove any carbon from your
filter, add the qc (one drop per gallon) next day perform water change
(25%) following day qc, next day water change, following day qc and the
last day large water change and add carbon back to filter. Hope this
helps!
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Thanks for the useful feedback.
We dont have some of these products but can use others which have the
ingredients you mentioned.

In the meantime I have done a 50% water change and added Methylene Blue and
an antiseptic to the water.
I do have formaldehyde seperately.
Regards
NZed

"bettasngoldfish" <maria_mjs DeleteThis @msn.com> wrote in message
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> White fuzzy material on the tail usually means fungus that normally
> shows up after a parasitic infection, treat with Quick Cure, which has
> formaldehyde for the parasites and malachite green for the fungus. I
> would do a large water change (25%-50%) remove any carbon from your
> filter, add the qc (one drop per gallon) next day perform water change
> (25%) following day qc, next day water change, following day qc and the
> last day large water change and add carbon back to filter. Hope this
> helps!
>
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Roy,

When I had fry (approx 50) ever single one died. Next time I got fry I used to
add a few drops
of melafix to the water they were in (approx 5 gallons) everytime I did 100%
water changes.
Once I started doing this I had minimal deaths, this could be just a fluke but
it leads me to
believe that melafix does have some merit. One of my fry was fungused all over
its tiny body
within a month of implementing the melafix this had all gone, again, perhaps a
fluke.
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Roy,

You could be right. MY adding melafix wasn't actually to cure the fry with
the huge fungal problem (and believe me it was huge, hence the time it took
for the fungus to go away and the side of his body to heal).

Any idea where you get info about gill function and melafix as I would like
to read that.

Cheers
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Roy wrote:
> Well the jury overall is out on the use of Melafix. Maela fix has no
> known anti bacterial properties as it so states.......trust me on
> that. I am as well as others are in the process of doing some
> controlled experiments in regards to melafix and fungus. Once you use
> melafix your dumping in huge amounts of dissolved organic carbons in
> your tank, and this is virtually impossible to get out even with
> potassium permanganate......


Tell us about your experiments.
You're saying Melafix is plant food; interesting.
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