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    PostSubject: My gurami has ulcer - treatment?   My gurami has ulcer - treatment? EmptyFri Jan 01, 2010 11:48 am
    My dwarf gurami has a small red ulcer... I treated her with antibiotics for 4 days and it seems to get larger

    Did anyone had any luck with treating an ulcer on their fish?
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    PostSubject: Re: My gurami has ulcer - treatment?   My gurami has ulcer - treatment? EmptyFri Jan 01, 2010 2:19 pm
    It depends on what is causing the ulcer. Do you have any pics or a better description of it? What are your ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels? Frequent water changes and some salt could also help if you haven't tried that yet.
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    PostSubject: Re: My gurami has ulcer - treatment?   My gurami has ulcer - treatment? EmptyFri Jan 01, 2010 8:01 pm
    Thanks for your reply! it's gotten bigger over the last couple of days and I stopped the E.M. ERYTHROMYCIN after 4 days as the ulcer did not get better.


    I cannot upload the pics - it's started looking like a little pimple with red base with a white head. The next day the white head was gone and left a small red ulcer... then the white film came back. Now the red ulcer is bigger about a 1 mm

    i appreciate any help you can offer
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    PostSubject: Re: My gurami has ulcer - treatment?   My gurami has ulcer - treatment? EmptyFri Jan 01, 2010 8:04 pm
    oh Ammonia is 0, nitrite 0.3, temp 79, ph 7.2, nitrate 5

    Thanks!
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    PostSubject: Re: My gurami has ulcer - treatment?   My gurami has ulcer - treatment? EmptyFri Jan 01, 2010 9:17 pm
    Iridovirus in Gouramis looks just the way you explained it. This is a disease I read that Dwarf Gouramis have been getting. Here is a link: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fa035
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    You should have dosed for the full treatment period noted on the bottle. Sometimes the problem will get worse before it gets better. It could still be a bacterial infection but it may also be viral. If it is viral the only real treatment is extra clean water...so you should up your water change routine for a while.
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    PostSubject: Re: My gurami has ulcer - treatment?   My gurami has ulcer - treatment? EmptyFri Jan 01, 2010 9:52 pm
    I totally missed your post CW. Looks like some good info in that link.
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    PostSubject: Re: My gurami has ulcer - treatment?   My gurami has ulcer - treatment? EmptyMon Jan 04, 2010 10:43 pm
    Hows your Gourami doing, any luck treating her?
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