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I have had a post in the FW board for a few days and I have tried other boards to no avail. I need help! Here's the description, any help is appreciated.
"I have an oranda that I have had happy and healthy in my tank for several months. I have not added anything new to my tank in over a month but yesterday I noticed a white lump under the fish's skin. At first I thought he had swallowed a rock but when I touched it, i felt softness. It resembles a pimple just under the skin with a huge white head the size of a pea.
I treated the tank with MelaFix and when that didn't work the guy at my lfs said it may be flukes. I moved him to a hospital tank and treated with Clout. This may have helped some because in the clout mix some of the white stuff came out of the abcess through three holes in the side of the fish. But after reducing to about half size, the improvement stopped and he still has a bump with white stuff inside. He has been treated with clout for 2 days.
All the perameters measure out good and none of the other fish are displaying any type of distress. He is still eating and swimming like before except he sometimes tilts as if the side with the abcess were lighter but not much. His color has not faded and other than a big bump with three holes in it he has had no change in appearence or behavior.
Before the bump appeared he would sit on the bottom of the tank for short amounts of time and would gasp at the surface but that has stoppped ever since the addition of an airstone.
The tank is a 29 gal fresh water planted tank with an oranda, a zebra danio, a killifish, and a pleco. There are a few mystery snails too. Water is currently at 73.5 but the heater is on so it should go up a bit soon. PH is 7, NO2 and NO3 are at or darn near 0, ammonia is at 0 as well. I have mechanical filter with chemical and biological filters in it too.
See why I can't figure out what is wrong?! I have tried all the research methods I have at my disposal! Please help. I am pretty attached to this little guy. . . .
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"I have an oranda that I have had happy and healthy in my tank for several months. I have not added anything new to my tank in over a month but yesterday I noticed a white lump under the fish's skin. At first I thought he had swallowed a rock but when I touched it, i felt softness. It resembles a pimple just under the skin with a huge white head the size of a pea.
I treated the tank with MelaFix and when that didn't work the guy at my lfs said it may be flukes. I moved him to a hospital tank and treated with Clout. This may have helped some because in the clout mix some of the white stuff came out of the abcess through three holes in the side of the fish. But after reducing to about half size, the improvement stopped and he still has a bump with white stuff inside. He has been treated with clout for 2 days.
All the perameters measure out good and none of the other fish are displaying any type of distress. He is still eating and swimming like before except he sometimes tilts as if the side with the abcess were lighter but not much. His color has not faded and other than a big bump with three holes in it he has had no change in appearence or behavior.
Before the bump appeared he would sit on the bottom of the tank for short amounts of time and would gasp at the surface but that has stoppped ever since the addition of an airstone.
The tank is a 29 gal fresh water planted tank with an oranda, a zebra danio, a killifish, and a pleco. There are a few mystery snails too. Water is currently at 73.5 but the heater is on so it should go up a bit soon. PH is 7, NO2 and NO3 are at or darn near 0, ammonia is at 0 as well. I have mechanical filter with chemical and biological filters in it too.
See why I can't figure out what is wrong?! I have tried all the research methods I have at my disposal! Please help. I am pretty attached to this little guy. . . .
"
