sick geo diagnosis?

[aquabee]

So most of you know about my 6 wild caught geophagus Tapajo "orange heads" that came in from South America about a week or 10 days ago. All of them got ich, but 5 were still active and eating while one seemed to be covered in the most white spots and doing poorly. I've been treating with higher temps and salt and Kordon organic Ich Attack, and everyone's doing better except her. She won't eat anything. Last night I took her out of the main tank into a 30 gallon quarantine with some plants, tank water with the salt and Ich Attack, and added Quick Cure (malachite green and formalin). The ich seems to have cleared up and she's a little more active but she won't eat and she's gasping despite good surface agitation with circ pumps and air stones.

Today I noticed a bulge on one side, and something was protruding from underneath her. She looks injured but she didn't look like this last night when I took her out of the main tank. The protruding thing looks like an egg tube but it's very swollen. Here's a pic:



Help?

[Darbex]

Dunno about that but have you tried garlic to get her to eat?

[aquabee]

Could she be egg bound? Everything I've read about that is terrible... I've already got salt in there with all the other ich treatments. What else to do? :(

[aquabee]

Dunno about that but have you tried garlic to get her to eat?

Yes Brian, I've been using Kent's garlic solution both to treat the water as it directs and to soak her NLS and mysis in. She will not eat.

[eklikewhoa]

Forget exactly but I read up on it somewhere, it's a bacterial infection with weak immune, poor slime coat and water params. I wanna say I used maracyn or maracyn II. to treat

[aquabee]

Forget exactly but I read up on it somewhere, it's a bacterial infection with weak immune, poor slime coat and water params. I wanna say I used maracyn or maracyn II. to treat

I'll try that. My params have been fine though, unless the shipping params and the store params were off. Got salt in there so her slime coat should be fine too.

[SunnyHouTX]

I have Maracyn I & II if you want Bee.

[aquabee]

Thanks Suntown. Everything I'm reading says there's little to no chance of recovery so I'm not sure what the appropriate action is.

[aquabee]

Did a 50% water change today and added only Prime and salt to the new water. It was time to start diluting the Quick Cure out anyway. I guess the next few days will show whether she's gonna make it or not.

[SunnyHouTX]

One of my Moliro has the distended ovipositor and it went away on it's own.

[sunkenmetal]

Man that looks terrible. I hope she makes it...

[aquabee]

Came home from work around 11:30 pm and she had died. At least she's not suffering anymore though. Man I couldn't stand to watch that.

[cu0ngsayz]

Sucks... Sorry about your fishy

[eklikewhoa]

Really sorry it happened to you B.

[SunnyHouTX]

RIP fishie