Help, mouth rot?

[money88]

Help I'm not sure how to treat this fish. seems to be breathing kind of quick and looks like the mouth is deteriorating

 

[Big G]

Consider treating for a bacterial infection with Sulfaplex + Neoplex. These are wide spectrum antibiotics that cover a variety of infections. Works pretty good on that area of a fish.

 

[HotRocks]

Consider treating for a bacterial infection with Sulfaplex + Neoplex. These are wide spectrum antibiotics that cover a variety of infections. Works pretty good on that area of a fish.

Agree with @Big G

This looks like a bacterial infection. Mouth infections are tough, as the fish usually won't eat. I would get going on the ABX ASAP.

 

[ScooterV]

They have the treatment covered :) Do you by chance have another gramma in that tank it could have been fighting with to cause an initial injury that started it?

 

[money88]

Nope, it's housed with a clown pair, and a longnose hawkfish and some inverts. The mouth seems to be looking better I am starting treatment today / tomorrow as I had to order the meds because they were not available locally.

 

[money88]

Okay so I have had the fish in a hospital tank for roughly two weeks now treating with sulfaplex but it hasnt seem to improve. The fish is now having trouble swimming it seems like it's tail is floating and that is partly the reason for it always sitting in the corner.

Temperature in the quarantine tank is 82-83 to help in case it was swim bladder. Other thoughts or suggestions? At this point it is being hard to feed the fish as it is not very accepting of the food. I am worried it will starve if not lose it to something else first.

 

[money88]

Also here was another thread when he was acting differently that is why I had two different ones. But seems it is most likely all linked https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/royal-gramma-acting-funny.461496/#post-5157247