Feamle Ram Has Large White Boney Looking Spot In Between The Eyes

[Fighterfish]

Hi,
This morning i woke up to find my female ram with a hard white lump in between her eyes. About two weeks ago she had whitespot now she has recovered but something new has occured. Any ideas? TBH it looks like a catapult bullet has hit her in bettween her eyes. But who knows any suggetions?
SF

 

[WILDER]

Can you decribe the lump, does it look hard or like it filled with fluid.
Is it smooth or does it look like a cauliflower.
Can you issolate the fish.

 

[Fighterfish]

Can you decribe the lump, does it look hard or like it filled with fluid.
Is it smooth or does it look like a cauliflower.
Can you issolate the fish.

It looks hard. And i can't isolate the fish. It is feeding fine and acting normal.
What could it be? A tumor?
Thanks,
SF

 

[babeasel]

Doe's the lump look anything like this?

 

[WILDER]

Its bacterial and you will need to treat with a bacterial med, don't forget to increase aeration in the tank, good luck.

 

[Fighterfish]

Hi,
I have treated it with med stuff.
Thanks for the help.
SF

 

[WILDER]

Bless him lovely fish .

 

[Amerce]

That is HTH, you need to isolate and treat, I lost all my rams with that.

Scroll down this webpage to Hole in the head, dwarf cichlids are known to suffer from it.

http/www.thefishworld.co.uk/id62.htm
http/www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/hdhith.htm

 

[WILDER]

Hole in the head is pitting.

Sorry thought that pic was the members who having trouble.

 

[babeasel]

Sorry Wilder i was just trying a photo to see if the lump was the same as Siamese Fighters.

That lump from the photo was treated a few times with interpet No9 but to no avail, it grew and grew until the ram was noticeably stressed and off it's food.
Roughly five days later it died

Hope you have more luck treating your Ram than i did

 

[WILDER]

Ok sorry R.I.P.
The med wasnt strong enough for what he had you have to use two in the uk with bad strains as we do not have excess to antibiotics.
And then it can be to late.