Oscar Problem

[brayer]

Hi all, I have a Oscar with what resmbles like a wort or something on the left side of his bottom lip. it seems to grow then reduce in size then grow again. He is very active and has no trouble eating etc, I perform regular water changes and my water stats are as follows

Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 40
PH - 7.5
Temp 27

None of the other fish have anything like this in the tank. I'm wondering when I had a large red parrot fish, who has sadly now passed away he used to pick on and lock mouths with the oscar, maybe it's an old wound witch just won't heal ?

Any advice on this very welcome

Thanks.

 

[ibbledibble]

got any pics?

 

[brayer]

got any pics?

will try to get a pic on l8tr, if he keeps still long enough

 

[Tolak]

My oscar has something similar, but he constantly picks losing battles with a 15" common plec, spits large gravel at him. He also tries to attack the tv through the left side of the tank. I figure it's a cross between a callous and a battle scar, which he gets once in a while from messing with the plec.

I know angels are prone to lip fibromas, which eventually will prevent them from eating. I've heard of some people doing a little surgury on them with a razor blade, followed by melafix, this actually works.

 

[poopsydrew]

Hi,

I hope this is of some help. I have seen this a couple of times before. A friend of mines pirhana started to develop one on his lip like you are describing. He treated with marcyn and maracym 2 (broad spectrum antiobiotics) it actually lessend the swelling and seemed ti work but is coming back slowly.

I have also seen the same thing in 2 angels like tolak said. I have had 2 customer bring them into my work not knowing what to do. I first tried the maracyn and maracyn two, which did nothing to help. The just like tolak said we used a wet towle and razor blade to carefully cut off the "wart" as soon as that was done we swabbed with melafix and a dab of powdered antibiotic on the lip for the next week or so.

One seems to be healing just fine and it seems to be dissapearing. The others is growing back. It will stop them from eating again like tolak said so I would do something sooner than later to try and catch anything early.

If it was me I would try a broad spectrum antiobiotic first and the go to the next step.

Best of luck,

Drew

 

[brayer]

thank's for all of your reply's where can you get these treatments from LFS or vet ?

 

[poopsydrew]

thank's for all of your reply's where can you get these treatments from LFS or vet ?

Maracyn 1 and 2 should be available at your lfs as should melafix.

Drew