Giant water bug with fungus.

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Ahlin

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I have a giant water bug with fungus on its mouthparts. Does anyone know a good way to treat it? Has anybody tried salt in the water or maybe saltbath? Can they even tolerate salt in the water and how much if they do?

 
What color is the fungus? If its green, then it is probably algae, which is not harmful to the water bug. Also, shouldn't this be in other invertebrates?

 
Sorry if it´s in the wrong place. Just move it then. No it´s white and fuzzy like cotton. I think it´s so hard to find more than the usual information about them. Hoped that someone maybe had tried saltbath but I skip that then. I´m trying with wet sponge hold by a pair of tweezers to remove it and a bath in fishmedicine against fungus afterwards right now. Maybe it´s really bacterial in first place followed by fungus, foodrelated, or even just age making them weeker.

One strange thing is that I bought two but the other one had it in the shop. In the same spot as this guy. It´s a male. They should treat it before I took them home but they couldn´t make it trying for several weeks. They just had fungusmedicine in the aquarium and it wasn´t clean after a turtle that had been in it before. So I took them home but the other one died after two days.

Sorry for bad English too.

 
The fungus (probably some kind of oomycete) probably can't survive dessication. I would remove the giant water bug from its aquarium, put it in a dry container with some paper towels for several hours until it has been completely dry for a while, empty and sanitize the aquarium and then replace the bug.

 
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