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Tank: 65G tall tank with tanganyikan rock-dwellers
Event: Saturday/Sunday power outage and possible power surger fried the heater and caused it to heat my tank to 90+ degrees. All fish died except 4.
Aftermath: I was out of town when this happened. Roommate realized that there was a major problem, unplugged the %#@ heater, scooped out all of the dead fish, took out many rocks to get all dead fish out, changed some water, and got temperature down (thank you roommate!)
Since the temperature surge, I've been observing the progress of an injury on my Altolamprologus calvus male. I thought that perhaps he banged himself up when roommate was rearranging rocks, but the injury has changed on a daily basis and appears to be getting larger. It is now a bare patch of flesh above his eye in a location that might make me think hole-in-head disease, however there is no pitting and it is more ulcerated and pinkish than the typical white patch. No visible strings or tufts of material around the site, but the first day there might have been one ich-like nodule that went away. Fish seems in good spirits - eating and swimming and fins are up. No darting, flashing or scratching on rocks. Nothing visible on the rest of his body. However, size of injury seems to be increasing daily so I think I need to treat this with something besides aquarium salt.
I have an assortment of meds and I'm going to put together a quarentine tank (I haven't had a disease in over 3 years). Any suggestions for what medicine to start with?
Edited to add that I have Binox, CopperSafe, Maracyn, Maracyn-Two and Melafix (expired 2009).
Got him in a 10-gallon. Arrows indicate lesions.
Event: Saturday/Sunday power outage and possible power surger fried the heater and caused it to heat my tank to 90+ degrees. All fish died except 4.
Aftermath: I was out of town when this happened. Roommate realized that there was a major problem, unplugged the %#@ heater, scooped out all of the dead fish, took out many rocks to get all dead fish out, changed some water, and got temperature down (thank you roommate!)
Since the temperature surge, I've been observing the progress of an injury on my Altolamprologus calvus male. I thought that perhaps he banged himself up when roommate was rearranging rocks, but the injury has changed on a daily basis and appears to be getting larger. It is now a bare patch of flesh above his eye in a location that might make me think hole-in-head disease, however there is no pitting and it is more ulcerated and pinkish than the typical white patch. No visible strings or tufts of material around the site, but the first day there might have been one ich-like nodule that went away. Fish seems in good spirits - eating and swimming and fins are up. No darting, flashing or scratching on rocks. Nothing visible on the rest of his body. However, size of injury seems to be increasing daily so I think I need to treat this with something besides aquarium salt.
I have an assortment of meds and I'm going to put together a quarentine tank (I haven't had a disease in over 3 years). Any suggestions for what medicine to start with?
Edited to add that I have Binox, CopperSafe, Maracyn, Maracyn-Two and Melafix (expired 2009).

Got him in a 10-gallon. Arrows indicate lesions.