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flowernhorn with weird eye fungus

23 11:12:21

Question
well it was around a week back that my flowerhorns condition was bad he had fin and tail rot wit eye cloud i have housed him in a 6gallon tank his size is 4inches .. i tried fixing it with furan2 and melafix ... however even after changin water every day and meds he developed hexa , well the condition now is that he still has hexa and his left eye has got eye cloud , wat appears to me is that he has some thing inside the eye and something growing on the lens ...he does not eat any thing
can u please advise me how to treat his eye infection
and how to get rid of hexa any medicines ..i am still using furan2,melafix for his eye and epsom salt with metronidazole for hexa ....please urgent help

Answer
Hi Am,
 A six gallon tank is much too small for a 4 inch fish.  While medicines are sometimes useful, in most cases, we rely on the natural health of the fish to combat most problems.  A 4 inch fish in a 6 gallon tank will simply produce too much waste for that volume of water for that fish to remain healthy for long.  The result is that when any disease attacks, there is little the fish can do about it.  

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