Has My Black Moor An Illness?

[shakespeare]

Evening
My Black Moor has what looks like a piece of 'fluff' coming out of his gill. It looks like a tiny piece of cotten wool. He has no other specks of white or anything on him at all. He has been swimming around with it for around 1 day - some of it seems to have come off. He appears healthy and happy but I am terrified he has an illness. My other black moor had something similar a few weeks ago but it came off after a few hours and all is well. What is happening?

Please can anyone help?

 

[phishyphil]

Evening
My Black Moor has what looks like a piece of 'fluff' coming out of his gill. It looks like a tiny piece of cotten wool. He has no other specks of white or anything on him at all. He has been swimming around with it for around 1 day - some of it seems to have come off. He appears healthy and happy but I am terrified he has an illness. My other black moor had something similar a few weeks ago but it came off after a few hours and all is well. What is happening?

Please can anyone help?

Hi there it sounds like Columnaris im afraid pal. Columnaris is a bacterial infection which results in cotton like growths. Course of action i would take is as follows

1) move your black moor to a separate quarentine tank
2) get yourself a product for treating bacterial infections. Recently my baloon molly had this and I used pimafix and myaxin at the same time. this cured the issue for me.

If you do not want to go done this role you could move the moor to another tank, and perform frequent water changes to help boost superior quality water levels and hope for the best possible outcome.

Sorry my friend for you and your moor