ich with torn fins????

[usacutie81]

I removed a guppy from Fern Valley cuz I noticed she had some white spots on her tail. I've never seen it on anything before, I assume this is the ich everyone is talking about. I put her into quarantine with the light off to let her calm down.

This morning when I went down I noticed that her tail is split. But it's a weird split, not all the way through. Picture this: guppy body, start of tail, split lenghtwise......., end of tail fully intact. I hope you see what I mean. Anyway, lots of water goes through that split so she uses it extra hard to swim, which of course makes it worse. It's possible I did this when trying to catch her cuz she kept trying to bury herself in the fry grass to avoid the net, but I'm not sure.

So do I treat for ich?

 

[Dan Steveo]

do u mean methylene blue
because i did a thread on how to treat torn fins a little while ago. ill try to post it again.

 

[Dan Steveo]

if it is finrot it will soon start eating into the flesh and thats when there is a really big problem. my two plecos got finfot and all i had to do was:

1.get some methlene blue(from lfs)
2.get some cotton buds.
3.get a bowl.
4.catch the fish in a net.
5.put the fish in the bowl whilst still in the net.(dip the net in the bowl.)
6. dip the cotton buds end in the water then in the methylene blue.(sometimes i dont dip it in the water)(dilutes too much)
7.take the net out (with the fish in it)(raise it)
8.then apply methylene blue to the fin.(via the cotton bud)
9.dip the fish in the bowl after a second of drying.
10.some methylene blue will come off.
11.put the fish back in the tank.

methylene blue stains. and i would reccomend it for wounds on the fishes side or head too. try not to put on gills though. it will say on the box- can also be used as an undilute antiseptic.
hope ive helped. strong doses in the tank should NOT i repeat NOT!!! be done.also try not to keep the fish in the bowl too long(once the methylene blue starts to come off). the meth could be too strong as the bowl is small.

 

[MissFishy]

Sounds like she ripped her fin on something. It may even rip all the way through before it starts healing unfortunately. I would treat for the ich, as well as adding some Melafix to help with the torn fin. You should do this in the main tank, since if one fish has ich, it has probably already spread. The melafix won't hurt the other fish.