oscars & fluffy white stuff

big-pig-666 · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:00 pm Post subject: oscars & fluffy white stuff

today i woke up and all my oscars have a bit of fluffy white stuff attached to there sides. they arent swiming around much and i think there gunna die if i don't seek help!! can any one please tell me what this is and how to cure it.. FAST?

thanks alot

Jenken

t_chelle16 · Moderator Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 3437

How big is the tank and what are the readings for ammonia, nitrIte, and nitrAte?

Could be columnaris. In which case Maracyn should work, but we need to figure out the root cause.

-Chelle

big-pig-666 · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:07 am Post subject:

http://www.fishpalace.org/fungus_chuckshobbiespets.jpg is exactly what it looks like.. the site says its body fungus..[/img]

t_chelle16 · Moderator Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 3437

If there wasn't an injury where the cottony stuff is growing, it's not a true fungus. True fungus grows on dead/damaged tissue.

Columnaris (which most people call a fungual infection although it's really bacterial) will grow on undamaged tissue. Here's a really great article about columnaris written by a friend of mine.
http://www.flippersandfins.net/flexibacter.htm

-Chelle

big-pig-666 · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:53 pm Post subject:

the thing is.. there was an injury there, i tried to let my midas and my oscar live together and my oscar was quite beaten up the next morning so i removed the midas..

oscar_breeder · New member Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

my beta caught that and died ovenight it drowned cuz it got it in its gills

-OSCAR_BREEDER