large cut on my cichlid

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dutchmonk
 
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large cut on my cichlid

by dutchmonk

as you can see my flowerhorn has a large gash on his right side. i have just started dosing the water with Melafix tonight. the gash is 4 days old and hasn't been looking any better so i went to the lps and got Melafix which seems to be just tea tree oil mixture. Is there any thing else i can do to help the little guy heal quicker? I have taken out all the carbon out of my filters. and i cant think of anything else i can do.


Any advice would be gratefully appreciated thank you
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dutchmonk
 
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by dutchmonk

where are the pics


dutchmonk
 
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by dutchmonk

no pics sorry i have no clue why there not showing up
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dutchmonk
 
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by dutchmonk

try this
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dutchmonk
 
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by dutchmonk

ok now i seen him rubbing his wound on stuff on the tank. its starting to bleed, ah he looks so bad. i called a vet but their is nothing they can do, no one has any experience with fish, they said the closest vet that sees fish is 2 hour drive away.

I think it might be to late


zambize
 
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by zambize

Yikes. Call your lfs and ask them what to do. Do you have a quarantine tank? A quarantine tank won't have things in it for him to rub on further irritating the wound, you won't have to stop filtering your main tank, you won't use as much medication, you won't expose your other fish to any medications, you won't have to use as much medication, and the other fish won't start picking on the sick fish.

Z


dutchmonk
 
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by dutchmonk

thank Z i got meds and im just setting up quarantine tank like you said. and your so right with the using of less meds in a smaller tank.

I really hope he pulls thru!!!
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dutchmonk
 
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by dutchmonk

you can see a pic of him in my profile, nasty cut


dizzcat
 
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by dizzcat

You can also hit the reply on your original post to see the pic. That looks bad :-( I have never dealt with something like that so can't help you.


JB20High9473
 
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by JB20High9473

Any update? Did the lil fella pull through ok?

large cut on my cichlid

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