The Australian Tandanus Catfish Forum

Bruce died.
Poor little bloke (OK well he wasn't that little anymore). RIP
I got some wierd fungi infection in the tank, had treated with melfix and pimafix, wasn't doing much. Treated with fungus-ade, cautiously since they are scaleless fish, which he was fine with, even afte I got up to full strength.

It was wierd this fungus, it seemed to only go away and he seemed alright, after I did a big water change, I'm talking 70%. I was doing these every second day. He would be goo the next day, but then by that night he was covered in the fungi again. Looked like his slime coat had turned white. Then I was doing the water changes daily. Then finally it got too much for him.

I bawled my eyes out, let me tell you. I still don't know what it was. It was on Okk, an Oscar, his tank mate too, but not to the extent it was on him, and Lally, the gibby wasn't affected by it at all. I really have no idea what it was. I'm still trying to get rid of it.

Hi Fraggle,
I am really sorry to hear about Bruce. We have lost 2 tandanus over the years and each time shed lots of tears. They become such a part of the family as they follow you up and down the tank.

Our first tandanus Leonard, got white spot on him (it looked like cotton wool growing on him in tufts.) and we treated that by lifting him out and dabbing mercuricrome on the spots. He survived this, but I can't remember what we did with the water - I think we emptied the tank and scrubbed it and cleaned all the stones and reset it up with a completely new setup while Leonard enjoyed being in the bath - a time consuming process in a 4ft tank.

We had to separate Leonard from the oscar that he was with though because the oscar kept on attacking him making the white spot worse. The white spot was on the oscar too, but he did not survive.

Hope you can figure out your fungus soon.
Cheers
Ali