Tropical Disease Site???

katana

New Fish
Oct 22, 2002
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Im wondering if anyone knows of a really good Tropical Fish disease site? And I'm not talking about the sites where all they do is copy a disease chart from a bottle of medicine.

Although if anyone can help here's the problem...
Bought 2 Bala's about 3 weeks ago. About a week and 1/2 ago one Bala's fins starting turning red. About 2 days later the other ones did too.  So I took them out and put them in my hospital tank.  I started them on MarOxy.  That didnt seem to be working so 2 days later I started using Maracyn-Two.
The red seemed to be going away for the most part.  But today I found one Bala upside down in the plants gasping for air.  So I moved the plants a bit and he took off.  Then a couple of minutes later back in the plants upside down.  I moved them again.  Now for about an hour so far he's back to being "normal".  Although today his fins are very frayed.  They wern't before.  Have i over medicated by using 2 different medications?  Does it get worse before it gets better??  Should I continue with my treatment?  And yes my water conditions are all normal. I also keep my hospital tank salted.  Is that a problem?
Any help would be appreciated.

Oh and they had clamped fins.  The healthier ones fins are all good now...but the other one...his bottom fins are still clamped.
 

colesea

Superstar Fish
Oct 22, 2002
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And if you don't mind actual text and bindings...Tetra Press has a -very- good book out called -The Manual of Fish Health-. You can find this book online, you can get it at Boarders (where I got my copy), or probably find it in the library if you don't want to buy it. Has almost a breif run down of every known freshwater tropical fish disease and treatments.
~~Colesea