Help - Bubble On Lip

[cornish baldy]

Hi all i need help, well my fish do, i noticed last night that one of my silver tip tetras has a large grey bubble growing out of his bottom lip, i assumed this was due to an injury or something similar. I checked him again this morning and the bubble was still there and the same size, i also noticed that 2 of the neons also seemed to have developed the same problem since last night. there hasnt been any sign of fungus on the fish before this developed i have listed all the details that i think any one will need below. I have tried to post a link to a picture, hope it works lol.
Thanks
Sean
PH 6.4
ammonia 0.25
nitrite 0
nitrate 15
50% water change about a week ago
180 litre tank
temp 26
fish in the tank are 3 silver tip tetras, 12 neon tetras, 1 siamese fighting fish3 rummy nose tetras, 5 mollies, 2 red tail black sharks, 1 common plec and 1 spotted cat fish.
no new fish have been added for approx 3 months
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[WILDER]

Is the ammonia reading 0 or above.
Does the bubble move.
Can you enlarge the pics.

 

[cornish baldy]

Is the ammonia reading 0 or above.
Does the bubble move.
Can you enlarge the pics.

Hi wilder thanks for the reply the ammonie is reading 0.25 on my test kit, the bubble doesnt seem to move from what i can see while the fish are swimming. I will see what i can do with the pictures.
Sean

 

[WILDER]

Just wanted to check as bubbe like lumps that move can be fish lice.
Any signs of flicking and rubbing.
Any excess mucas on the body or gills.

 

[cornish baldy]

Have added a larger piccie of the silver tip tetra hope this helps

Just wanted to check as bubbe like lumps that move can be fish lice.
Any signs of flicking and rubbing.
Any excess mucas on the body or gills.

no signs of flicking or rubbing and no visible mucas, the fish seems perfectly normal apart from the bubble

 

[WILDER]

The pics are taking to long to load up.
Any greyish white patches on the mouth.
If no signs of flicking and rubbing and no excess slime I would take the bacterial route with 3 fish having the same thing.
Does the mouth and lips look swollen. Any signs of rotting.

 

[cornish baldy]

The pics are taking to long to load up.
Any greyish white patches on the mouth.
If no signs of flicking and rubbing and no excess slime I would take the bacterial route with 3 fish having the same thing.
Does the mouth and lips look swollen. Any signs of rotting.

no signs of rotting but on closer examination there does seem to be a white spot in the centre of the bubble, there is no grey or white patches on the mouth but the bubble is a grey colour

 

[WILDER]

It would take the bacterial route.
Greyish white spots with a tinging of red can be columnaris spot.

 

[cornish baldy]

It would take the bacterial route.
Greyish white spots with a tinging of red can be columnaris spot.

ok thanks for your help ive got some meds for bacterial infections so will give that a go

 

[WILDER]

What bacterial meds do you have.

 

[cornish baldy]

What bacterial meds do you have.

its called myxazin and its made by a company called waterlife
it says it treats fin & body rot, ulcers, cloudy/pop eye & other bacterial infections

What bacterial meds do you have.

its called myxazin and its made by a company called waterlife
it says it treats fin & body rot, ulcers, cloudy/pop eye & other bacterial infections

i have also got some interpet no.9 anti internal bacteria treatment

 

[pippoodle]

poor thing dont look good in the piccy

 

[cornish baldy]

poor thing dont look good in the piccy

Thanks for putting the piccie on there pippoodle i tried to do that but cldnt work out how lol and you are right he dont look good, ive also got 2 neons with the same problem

 

[pippoodle]

first thing i would do is do your weekly water change and then add the myazin for the 5 days
if there's no improvement with that one do another WATER change on day 6 50% and then add the interpet treatment on day 7

just see what wilder says though

 

[WILDER]

It's up to you which one you use as there both ok.