Platy With White Puffy Lips

[fryeguy82]

(i'm filling this out from work, can't remember all of the parameters from last night)
Tank size:55
pH:7.2
ammonia:?
nitrite.5
nitrate:10-20
kH:?
gH:?
tank temp:80 degrees F / 27 celcius

Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): white puffy lips on one of my female platys, swimming, eating, and acting fine

Volume and Frequency of water changes:20% every 4-5 days

Chemical Additives or Media in your tank:none

Tank inhabitants: These have been in the tank for a while: 4 platys (2 M 2 F), 2 sailfin mollies (M), albino mystery snail. These are new additions: 2 pim pict, 2 albino paradise fish (F)

Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration):here's a timeline:
Sunday: netted her and put her into isolation bin to give birth
Monday: removed from isolation bin (21 babies)
Tuesday: add the 2 pims and 2 paradise mentioned above
Wednesday: noticed white kinda flaky, kinda puffy lips

Exposure to chemicals: none before noticing the lips, but wednesday night added stress coat incase it might have just been damaged from the netting

any advice?

thanks,
chris

 

[Miss Wiggle]

giving birth can be enough of a stress for a fish to develop an infection.... especially with less than perfect water conditions (nitrite should be 0.... it's not massivley high but still not perfect, and we could really do with an ammonia reading)

when you say tank size 55.... is that litres or gallons??

can you get a pic so we can see exactly what these lips look like? would help with diagnosis.

probably just a bit of fungus or mouth rot. i believe both are treatable with pimafix but you should address why this has happened in the first place

your first course of action should be to do a 40% water change to get the nitrite down. what filter do you have on the tank? there's three obvious possible options why the water's not perfect really

1 - the new addition of fish has put a strian on the existing filter bacteria colony so they can no longer keep up. if this is the case you should do daily water changes and within a week or so more bacteria should grow to keep up with the bio-load.
2 - the filter isn't strong enough to handle the amount of fish in your tank, if you tell us the tank size and make/model of the filter we can advise you on this.
3 - the filter is incorrectly/poorly maintained, can you run through exactly what you do to clean the filter and when you last did it.