How to Fight Fungus on Aquarium Fish
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0:00 Causes of fish fungus
2:50 Medications for fish fungus
5:23 Dosing salt to treat fungus
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If the answer is SALT...........I nailed it!!!
My Bettas keep getting fin rot, and biting off pieces of their tails. I don’t know what else to do. I use salt, Furan-2, Kanaplex etc.
Hi Corey this link is broken. Do you have a new one?
oh no youre making a big mistake in telling people something! when you treat your fish with a medicine and you cant switch the water out as much, leave the substrate, glasses and filter alone! i made this huge mistake, evberytime cleaning off my filter and didnt change my water enough. tihs caused: more nitrate in the water, less essencial bacteria in the filter and tank. my fish get strresed and have a low imune becouse of it, so the mold is growning much easier on them. to prevent to much stress while you cant change the water for a view days, you need to do a big waterchange, and leave the rest alone.
I appreciate the salt treatment instructions. In Canada it’s really hard to get fish medication.
In pakistan too
You have to call around to find anything like that. :/
Okay I know this is a one year video, but here in Quebec we have very easy access to fish medication ☺
salt is stimulating the fish to make new slimy skin layer, what rejects the mold. it can also use in really small dosis becouse tapwater also contains a small amount of salt. its not toxic its not a medication. but there are big downsides to it. your plants dont like it and to much isnt good for the fish i recon. you can also give your fish a more concentrated salt bad for a view minutes but i guess the cause of the mold is the fish his imune system or stress level being to high anyway so you have to take some measseures at the first place for that. you have to kill the problem by the roots, the rest will follow along
You can also give a peroxide bath: 20 ml per 1 gallon for 30 minutes daily.
This is one of the most succinct and fact/process filled videos that I've consumed lately.. super helpful and informative!!! Thanks so much for going to the effort!
Most people don't mention that poor nutrition could have something to do with it. Great work!
As a beginner fish keeper who has recently been struggling with my fish due to fungal disease this is so helpful and easy to understand
I haven't had to deal with this yet, but it's always good to learn about things, before they happen! I always really appreciate your videos! Thanks for all the information Irene, I hope you have a great day!👍🌱🐟🌱💚
This came at a perfect time for me! Doing a water change and starting treatment today. Thank you!
I always appreicate the personal perils in these videos. So many people on youtube just show everything as "perfect." I like to hear how you personally delt with these issues.
Like the "gender dysphoria"?
Thank you, this was extremely informative and straight to the point. Amazing content!!!
Sooooo clear! Irene you’re the best 🏆
Thank you for the great information, your style and simplicity of explanations makes it easy for beginners to understand.
Super video, kudos to the aquarium co-op .
Thank you Irene! I really like your videos!
Awesome advice Irene. 👏👏👏👏👏
I learnt alot from your videos. Keep up the great work.👍
Thank you for sharing.
Another great video Irene!
Thanks for all the information really appreciate it stay blessed
Great info as always Irene!!!
Recognizing fish diseases and illnesses is one if those things i wish i would have studied harder when getting into the hobby
Love this just had a fungal outbreak in my 40 gallon community tank
These vids are very helpful thank you!
My guppy just died of this yesterday and from this video I know what it is now
thanks for the education on this!
Thanks for the great information!
Thank you Irene for this informative video
A lot of great information & advice. Thank you. 😊 👍
Another great and educational video 👍😁 thank you
Thanks for thorough information as well as including the caveat on some fish & salt..
-had read that my corydoras would be dead from it..
also appreciate clarity on the 'herbal' review.
Thanks for another informative video.
Always good content from Irene.
Great informative video from Great people!
Great advice. Thx!
Always great information ty
Very informative and helpful material. Only thing I would like to point out is that when you go from step one to 2 and 3 you only add difference in salt.. For those who wonder cause I don't think she mentioned it. Great video!!
Good info, thank you.
Thanks for this info! I discovered some weird fluffy stuff on my favorite fish, Frank and absolutely FREEEEAAAAAKED out! I am going to try this stuff out and see if it helps! Thank you!
This channel has taught me the power of salt
I love Irene's videos on aquarium co op
Thank you so much for information ☺
Great vid 👍
Thanks Irene!
Great video thank you
Great job thanks
Great info🐟🌿👍😊
Great advice
Great info! I have used salt for my betta but without a certain measurement! Thankss👌🏼
Great vid.
Love your channel and site! I bought all my plants and supplements from you guys. My platy accidentally got stuck on the ridges of its sponge filter for a whole night and I didn't notice it had wounds on its sides until the next day. White fuzz surrounded its body which I assume became infected for having the open wounds. I quarantined the fish in a smaller tank, but I'm treating both tanks just in case as there are other fish. I bought melafix for this problem, but should I purchase maracyn and itch-x instead?
My mentor (RIP Mr. K) taught me early to go ahead & get that economy size can of flakes & to section it out into multiple sealable sandwich bags, then get another (different food) & do the same.... lather, rinse, repeat.... next thing you know; you’ve got a bulk supply of food that you can keep fresh & mix up for your little ones. Throw something live in the mix every week (worms, brine, etc) & the little ones have a nice variable diet.
Quality content Irene; as always...
Great video 👍👍
Thank you very much
I love your content! :)
You have the best speaking voice, I love learning from you vs other educators on the platform mainly because I understand what you are saying always 🧡
great tip
Thank you for the video! for everyday usage. Do we perform water change before dosing the meds again? And if so, How much water change?
Love your vids
Thank you
Salt helped with mine, nice one
I have a little crush on Irene. She just always seems so pleasant and nice in the videos. :)
She is married :-\
@@darkking675 yeah, me too. I didn't mean it like that though. I meant it in a less creepy, more wholesome way.
@@RikoStan to be fair to you - nothing creepy about that comment. I don't disagree :)
Same! She's great in explaining this and she's pretty as well.
Good info
Great info. In the case of Goldfish and fungal disease, would higher water temps such as 78 degrees Fahrenheit or lower temps 65-68 degrees be more effective for treatment?
Thank you for advice.. can you please tell me the tablespoon of salt is how many grams?
Thank you .
I feel a little bad because my betta got fungus despite having a community tank etc.
Thanks for acknowledging us non Americans. I just got aquarium salt and will be doing that today.
Hi,can i use a Himalayan salt for natural treatment
I prefer Jungle Fungus Clear for external fungal/bacterial infections. Most external lesions have bacterial and opportunistic fungal components, so my opinion is that you might as well treat both (the Fungus Clear has potassium dichromate to treat fungus and nitrofurazone for gram-negative bacteria). It's just a great combo in my experience. I'm not a huge fan of maracyn (erythromycin) as it mainly treats gram-positive bacteria and most fish infections are gram negative. I also prefer to use formaldehyde (ich x = formalin and malachite green) only when dealing with an issue that can't be solved otherwise (some protozoan parasites). It stains everything, has the most adverse reactions out of the meds I've used, and can really knock back your cycle. Having worked with the stuff professionally for years, I can attest that it's nasty stuff. It's fairly non-specific and will eventually kill both host and pathogen - we just hope it kills the pathogen first.
Thanks for this information love you guys. Will the aquarium salt affect my dojo loach? he is in a community tank with mollies and Cory's and Malaysian Trumpet Snails
3grams of salt per 1L of water has always served me well... with stingrays, scaleless catfish, eels, and many other fish.
Travis Perkins Fun & Games do you do this in a quarantine tank? Just curious, or will this affect plants?
@@898929 I don't tend to have many plants, but I've done it before without any visual side-effects for myself. I buy 25kg of Sand from a Koi retailer for £12 (bargain!)
Salt is my go-to before anything else, although if I have an ich breakout with some smaller stress-prone fish (such as Peacock bass) I will always default to a treatment.
@@travisperkinsfungames6639 "smaller" peacock bass lol what do you keep regularly belugas...
Do you put salt in main tank or special container?
@@Meatballs01better in a smaller container with the fish that show the sings . If its multiple fish procced to medicate in the main aquarium. Please follow the instructions and dont throw to much salt. It helps cause ive myself saved 3 tanks and more than 20 fish of using salt
Can tabl;e salt be used as its chemically the same?
I wish I'd found this video sooner! Just went through a stressful week with my Betta and it took me a while to figure out what was wrong. It started out about a week and a half ago: my little guy wasn't eating and was hanging out on the bottom of the tank. He was bloated so i figured it was constipation, he could hardly swim and looked almost dead. the bloating actually cleared within a few days but he still couldn't swim or eat. then i noticed he had white spots or lumps on either side near his swim bladder- but it looked internal so i was fearing everything from tumors to TB. Water perimeters had been perfect. I suspect a small nerite snail or mossball i put in recently had some bacteria or something. Looking at pictures online of various diseases i still couldn't identify the spots. So after 2 days some stringy white stuff started coming out- and i realized it was fungus. I bought API Bettafix and some freshwater aquarium salt and added a few days in a row. Now all of a sudden he is swimming and eating and id say he's back to about 75% of his normal self;) i think i credit the salt more than anything. Also other things i did was lower the water level pretty low in the tank/turn off the filter so he can surface for air much easier. Turn your light off to reduce stress too!
I need to try this
She didn't put the sponge filter in a plastic bag before removing it like Cory instructed in his video on sponge filters. I do that now and no more huge cloud of crap when I pull the sponge to clean it.
Are these treatments safe for fish that aren’t sick? Or do I need to do a quarantine tank for my sick fish? Thank you for such a helpful video!
Irene, when you went from "level 2" to "level 3" (IIRC), did you simply add the difference in salt?
I salt dip for everything. Hasn’t failed me yet
Never had this problem, but good to know!!!!
Thank you new fish owner I seen my beta has some white spots to ordered what's needed !
Hello Irene, and thank you for all your help. My female adult Molly has fungus on her side, it's "cotton like" and is a definite patch. I have treated with maracyn 2 x 5 days which has not helped, but I'm sure she was injured while hiding from an aggressive male molly. My question is, can I add ICH-X without a water change, or should I just add the ICH-X in the 20 gallon tank with the Maracyn 2?
Super movie!
I like to do all those along with some catappa leaves, just to provide some tannins that help as well.
Hi there! I'm happy to say that I just joined your channel, it's my first You Tube channel that I have ever joined and I give credit to you and this video for joining! Some channels recommend to treat just the infected fish and not the whole tank, Your thoughts please?
Welcome Francis, You could quarantine the fish and treat it, but often times the disease is spreading through the fish and you haven't noticed the signs yet. Some diseases have eggs and cysts that stay in the tank even if you remove the fish. We recommend treating the whole aquarium.
Hi! New fish owner here. Our new Oranda appears to have a fungus on his fins and he is mopey. I have on either Oranda in the aquarium. Can I treat them both with the fungal meds safely? Or a salt bath? The water tests beautifully. We have only had them two weeks.
Ty!!! My husband brought home 2 Marbled Angels from Petco when I was out shopping 2 days ago and I noticed them once home. 1 of the 2 had 2 white spots so I assumed ick or fungus but the LFS said “Angel lice”. I couldn’t find info on that (I am not an Angel fan so never had them in my 20+ years of fish keeping). I also couldnt see them well as they hide in the plants at the back of the tank.
Almost 72 hours later and the Angels have one side of their bodies with tons of white fluffy patches and one of my Flame Gourami’s has a white fluffy spot plus a flat spot. I immediately started on raising the temp 1 degree and hour and dosed with salt (1tbsp/5g since I had salt added already months ago) as all my LFSs are all out of pretty much anything needed due to the pandemic. I ordered some via Amazon but they “got lost” each time and I ran out if my “stock”.
Thanks for this informative video to show my husband who is new to fish keeping. Cant be too mad as he bought me a 100G tank to do start saltwater (be here next Saturday!) and he ordered a tank for his Angels as an apology. Also taught him about quarantining fish before adding them to the tank.
I want that glass scraper ! Where did you get that 😯⁉️❔‼️
Can I clean my 5gallon tank, then add that medicine to that tank? I only have the 1 fish in it. Or do I have to have a separate tank/container ?
How to treat columnaris? Will seachem paragard do it I have that here at home.
One of my mollies has a lump/ulcer that is white with a pink center, what treatment should I use?
I cured ick in my 55 g African Cichlid tank with heat 84°F and melafix. I noticed a huge difference within a couple days and continued treatment for 4 days after all signs was gone.
Favoriting it for when i need it
Pimafix did the trick for fungus on my fish's caudal fin. I agree with the salt remedy too though. Used that before with success.
Speaking of herbal medicine that you mentioned. One veterinarian on his website advises adding black tea to the aquarium to help heal the damage from infections and injuries. The recepe is 1 cup of tea per around 100 litres or 25 gallons. I've just tried it with my goldfish. Of course, it shouldn't be the #1 treatment, but it seems to help at least a bit.
Freezer? I started putting it in my refrigerator thanks to you..Now you come up with freezer?
Haven’t looked at fish stuff on YT in a while
I bought two dwarf aquarium lilies from you all...one is fine and one has fungus. Is there any way to solve that problem with the fungus? Can I dip it in anything?
High quality pellet food is generally fine for a staple diet and less nutritious foods like brine shrimp should not be fed as regularly.
Methylene blue!! It has brought so many fish from the brink of death for me!!
Hi There, Could this also work for plants? I believe I have white water mold (fungus) all over my plants and rocks. I've already took my tank apart and did a full cleaning and replaced the substrate. I tried to clean my filter as much as possible but a day later the fungus is back so i'm back to square one.
Well, I kept my betta in a 35 litre aquarium at 24 degrees, did daily partial waterchanges and even added a little bit of salt as a preventative measure, but it still got fungus. If it dies I am buying a paradise fish instead. It's just as beautiful as a betta and in fact very closely related , but a lot more hardy and healthy and even easier to care for.
Got a German blue ram who has had fungus, I’ve used Fritz for first treatment and a big piece of fungus went away but still has specs on fins. Started treating with api fungus cure and after completed that treatment Blue Ram still had fungus specs on fins. I’ve also tried stage 1 of salt treatment with no success.
I use metaline blue and rock salt because those are the ones available in my area.
Any advice on salt baths? I don’t have a QT tank big enough for my goldfish and my main tank has lots of plants.
If you're treating them, is it the best to not feed them?
Currently having this issue, I’m giving the api pinafix a go. Does anyone know if it works good?