White pus from a small white whole

[tlawson]

Hi
I have an older disus who has white pus building up then seeping from its head it also looks like its secreting a mucus from its body.

Any ideas on medicating it? it isn't showing any signs of distress.

[Mr Wild]

If it were me I would try metro for 10 days, if it is eating I would add to the food, also QT the fish on its own. HTH

[Hollowman]

Photo ?

[tlawson]

i havnt been able to get a good photo yet. It looks kinda like cotton coming out of a whole. She has also stopped eating.

Any idea? Where can i get metro?

[ILLUSN]

sounds like a bad case of hole in the head disease with a secondary baterial infection.

do a nice big water change as big as you can, even better put the fish into a hospital tank.

set temp to 30C (you can go as high as 31C if you like)

add salt to the water 2 tsp/40L

start treatment with metro treat at 25mg/L every 2 days (you'll need to see a vet), before each treatment do a water change (as much as you can but no less then 30%) keep the light off during treatment or just throw a black towel over the hospital tank.

with each water change re dose the salt to keep the concentration at 2tsp/40L (ie if you do a 50% change put 1 tsp back in)

DO not offer food untill day 4, it will just rot and foul your water, from day 4 offer food once per day till its all consumed within 3 min, then step up to 2x a day

with super clean water and metro you should see improvement within 7 days.

keep the fish in the hospital tank for a full 2 weeks after treatment to build it back up.

[tlawson]

Thank you for the info. can you please clarify what type of salt i should use?


sounds like a bad case of hole in the head disease with a secondary baterial infection.

do a nice big water change as big as you can, even better put the fish into a hospital tank.

set temp to 30C (you can go as high as 31C if you like)

add salt to the water 2 tsp/40L

start treatment with metro treat at 25mg/L every 2 days (you'll need to see a vet), before each treatment do a water change (as much as you can but no less then 30%) keep the light off during treatment or just throw a black towel over the hospital tank.

with each water change re dose the salt to keep the concentration at 2tsp/40L (ie if you do a 50% change put 1 tsp back in)

DO not offer food untill day 4, it will just rot and foul your water, from day 4 offer food once per day till its all consumed within 3 min, then step up to 2x a day

with super clean water and metro you should see improvement within 7 days.

keep the fish in the hospital tank for a full 2 weeks after treatment to build it back up.

[Hollowman]

cooking salt is fine, and cheap. Just make sure it does not have 'caking agents' in it.

[ILLUSN]

Ditto what steve said :)

rock salt from the supermarket is fine.