Can Somebody Identify This Problem

[sherburn]

Hi all

I have a fish with a gill problem can you have a look at the picture and try to identify the issue

Thanks

Dave

 

[The-Wolf]

I'm not familiar with that fish, is the white thing supposed to be there?
if not it looks like a piece f gravel as become lodged in the operculum and
you should use a pair of tweezers to gently remove it

 

[sherburn]

I'm not familiar with that fish, is the white thing supposed to be there?
if not it looks like a piece f gravel as become lodged in the operculum and
you should use a pair of tweezers to gently remove it

Thanks for the suggestion unfortunately its not gravel it appears to be a white swelling with blood vessles in it
and it only appeared today

 

[TubbyLaLa]

Do you have clams in the tank? Just been researching them and their young parisitise fishes gills thats the only thing i can think of off the top of my head. sorry if it is not much use. I hope your fish recovers!

 

[The-Wolf]

you may get a better/quicker response by posting this in the marine forum.
many marine keepers dare not venture out of there

 

[sherburn]

Do you have clams in the tank? Just been researching them and their young parisitise fishes gills thats the only thing i can think of off the top of my head. sorry if it is not much use. I hope your fish recovers!

No No Clams

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

It looks like a tumor or cyst to me, tumors in fish are untreatable (but generally not infectious towards other fish, as they tend to be genetic), if its a cyst though you can use an anti internal and external bacterial med to get rid of it. Another posibility would be cauliflower desease, a "viral infection that causes cells to become megaloblastic, thus forming small tumors (bumps or growths), often along the lateral line or the pedicle, where the fin meets the body. The tumors sometimes take on the appearence of tiny cauliflowers, thus the name";

http/www.fishpalace.org/Disease.html#Lymphocystis

Personally, it looks like a tumor more than a cyst to me, i'm no expert on marine fish though so this could be a physical ailment that effects only your particular types of marine fish etc. But for now, i'd say its either a tumor or a cyst.

 

[sherburn]

It looks like a tumor or cyst to me, tumors in fish are untreatable (but generally not infectious towards other fish, as they tend to be genetic), if its a cyst though you can use an anti internal and external bacterial med to get rid of it. Another posibility would be cauliflower desease, a "viral infection that causes cells to become megaloblastic, thus forming small tumors (bumps or growths), often along the lateral line or the pedicle, where the fin meets the body. The tumors sometimes take on the appearence of tiny cauliflowers, thus the name";

http/www.fishpalace.org/Disease.html#Lymphocystis

Personally, it looks like a tumor more than a cyst to me, i'm no expert on marine fish though so this could be a physical ailment that effects only your particular types of marine fish etc. But for now, i'd say its either a tumor or a cyst.

Thanks for that