Update

I recently was able to inspect my catfish while his underside was facing the glass. His behavior is fine, he is calm, and breathing normally, eating occassionally. I noticed that his belly / stomach is abnormally bloated and the skin color in that area has turned from a brown with small ...

What is an effective easy to find antibiotic for internal bacterial infections?

Luckily I have had luck with mine - he likes to eat, though he does go on random hunger strikes.

In order of favorites: He eats shrimp pellets, broken up algae wafer, frozen blood worms, tetracichlid mini granules, blanched zuccini, live baby ramshorn snails.

I find that he prefers the pellets ...

UPDATE

First off I would like to thank grokefish and marc van arc for helping identify the problem, no LFS person was able to offer any correct advise and many people in other forums either.

So 2 days ago I purchased Mardells Tetracycline Tablets. Its a week long treatment, so I removed the beta ...

He is 3 inches long and lives in a 10 gallon tank with some plants and driftwood, ramshorn snails, and a betta.

I added 2.5 tablespoons over 3 days along with increasing the temperature to 90 degrees and darkness. It sounds extrene, but he was extremely covered in ich. This treatment got rid of ...

thanks for the reply

I would have to say this is the weirdest thing i've seen. by white spot you mean ich? I am pretty sure it is all gone. he was covered with white spots from dec 28 to han 5. by the 6th all spots were gone. i am convinced he either has something in his gills, brain, or is just ...

I have a very frustrating problem with my poor raphael talking catfish. He is about 4 yrs old and has been very healthy until recently.

he just got over a major bout of ich (which he got from a few new tetras, which I immediately removed when i noticed they had ich, though the catfish still ...