Fish Tb?

[guppler]

OK. I'll go ahead and ask. I probably should figure out how I can know for sure before I find new homes for all those cory fry that were spawned in the same tank with the lumpy fish.
I mentioned before that I had a black neon with a lump or 2 under it's skin. Later one of my 3 minnows was acting sick and got better without meds, but now it has a lump or 2 just like the tetra. I would like to think that this is a common harmless occurence that just happens as some fish get older, but if it is contagious and bad, I should know. I read that TB is very contagious, so if only 2 fish have the same symptoms after months of exposure in my comunity tank, am I safe? Is it just dormant and waiting to strike? How scary is it? What would I need to do to find out for sure and or be sure thay are not contagious? Right now all I have is 2 unrelated fish in 1 tank with tiny unchanging lumps on their sides and no other symptoms, but there are a lot of others that have been exposed, and for all i know, it might affect different fish in different ways. I think someone suggested a bacterial infection. I don't really want to treat a lot of apparently healthy fish, but if it is an infection, should it go away with antibiotics? Is there anything specific I should try, or should I look for a real life fish vet and see if they can do a test or something? i want to just not worry about it, but then I don't want to spread it if it is something bad.

 

[guppler]

I didn't get back online to check for answers for a while, and it looks like I don't have answers anyway. I just talked to a guy today at one of my favorite lps's, and he wants "tiger endlers" and cories and apple snails. I was so excited about all the fishy possiblities, I forgot to ask his opinion about the lumpy fisk in the same tank with most of the critters i would offer them. So... Do I need to do more research and get a definitive diagnosis, or should I just figure that fish grow lumps as they age and if there was something bad and contagious I would't have so many healthy fish and the store can deal with it if there is an invisible problem?

 

[WILDER]

Sounds like it could be ntd if the lumps look like cycst, do you have any neon tetra's, or has any of the fish been kept with neon tetra's, have they lost any colouration, like bleached out patches.

http/freshaquarium.about.com/cs/disease/p/neondisease.htm

 

[guppler]

The color looks good on my black neon, which I have had about a year, and it had the lumps the whole time, as far as I know. The minnow acted a little funny briefly a couple of months ago I think, and ever since then it is a little darker color than my other 2 white clouds, but OK, maybe a little less smooth color near the lumps. It's wierd how both totally unrelated fish have 2 visible lumps each, both on the same side, and both right on the color stripes.
I do have 1 regular neon. I think i bought 2 at the same time as the other tetras, and they both died, so I traded them for live ones, and one of them died after a couple more weeks or so. Now my lone neon hangs around the glolites mostly, but after a year, wouldn't there be more affected fish if it was contagious?

from the link ntd might be even scarier than TB or almost anything. i really hope that's not what it is and I guess i should mention it to anyone I give fish to and maybe show the lumpy ones to someone at the store. I was worried about the behaviour of the minnow a couple of times and thought it might not make it becase it would just hover in 1 spot and sort of rock almost as if it had hiccups, but now it acts normal again. The tetras all look and act very healthy as far as I can tell. I think the guppies and danios that died in that tank died of old age, and lately the only dead things I noticed in there wete a couple of apple snails. If I did have ntd, how long would it take to kill an affected fish or others in the same tank?