Neon Tetras - fungus

Sleepy

The tetras in my community tank are suffering from some sort of fungus on their mouths and / or fins for over a month now. I've tried a 5 day course of myxazin and a 10 day course of eSHa 2000 with no effect (removed all carbon from the filters during this).

Anyone have any ideas what else I could try? They're swimming and feeding normally but I'm worried about that not lasting much longer!

fungun

if its a cottony growth on their mouth, thats a bacterial infection i think; even though it looks similar to fin rot etc.

presume your water stats are ok? Would have thought the usual treatments should suffice.....are your tetras extra stressed/being nipped by other fish? Are other fish in the tank all ok? Also I think cooling the water helps....er....not sure where I know this from, but I think I remember reading this somewhere.
Was there any sign of an improvement when you treated them?

Sleepy

No great sign of improvement, no...

No nipping happening in the tank and they have a pretty stress free life in pretty much perfect water conditions (PH is slightly acidic but nothing out of acceptable parameters for my stock).

Actually: If cooling the water helps, the kids may have inadvertently healed the fish: the little feckers unplugged my heater and it was 3 days before I noticed (though this has happened since my last treatment so don't think this stress could have been the cause).

fungun

well i meant more by a degree or two rather than plugging them out!!! :pac:

paddy147

Its not "white spot" is it??

Sleepy

Nope, more like fungun described: a cottony growth around their mouths

m4r10

I noticed the same on my 5 neon a while back. I left them in the main tank and none of the other fish seemed to catch it. Decided to try and treat them into a small tank in which I have some snails and a few plants. After 3 weeks of treatment with a solution that now cannot remember (something with no. 8), I couldn't see any improvement in their health so decided to euthanise them rather then introduce them back in the main tank.

Hopefully you'll have more luck in treating them.

PS: The treatment is Interpet no. 8 and is for treating the cotton mouth disease, but as I said, had no effect on my neons.

Sleepy

The heater plug being pulled has taken it's toll: 2 guppies and 2 of the tetras. Only found 1/2 of one of the guppies and have thoroughly searched the tank to no avail: the other 3 have been eaten.

Following advice I've found on other forums I've treated the tank with a low level of salt. Hopefully this'll heal them.