Pondering On What It May Be

[theshadowinc]

Well.... woke up today to check my aquascape and see how it is doing, notice my Gourmis with sores on his scales both sides, and hanging near the surface and hiding between the branches that float on the surface from my watersprite i grow half in and half out of water. Notice that they where actually bleeding, now keep in mind this was the first fish in this tank! He is about 8 months old, was the only survival from a breed went wrong i did! The discuss seemed fine, co2 lvls fine etc, don't bother asking about what the water perms are at I wont answer it! The discuss are doing very well eating and active so something is telling me its eaither parasite which would be common, but hard to understand unless its internal and gotton it from food entering the tank, and even then i still find it hard to believe. Now this gourmis hangs out with the discuss and no issues ever, did he , maybe pi.ssed the entire school off where they would have maybe attacked it maybe cause stealing food or something? What do u all think, i am still uncertain and right now have it in quartine, using melafix thinking maybe he tried to pick a fight with all of them at once. In the quartine tank seems to be doing much better swimming around, food aint a issue eats bloodworms and brineshrimp only (froozen) 3 times a day so eats better than most humans lol! (keep in mind the fish was fine the day before so yesterday)
Pictures included below of both sides

So now what do u think parasite or bullying usually i would already know what the parasite is but i don't if it is. As u can see the damage is external and happen overnight

 

[Sofia]

Gouramis are very grumpy from my expereince and he probbaly did pick a fight with the discus and he got battered for it.

Keep treating him with melafix and see how he does. It's important to keep the water in tip top condition with such a large wound.

Some salt baths may help with the healing too. Search the forum for salt to water ratios.

 

[WILDER]

Why post if you are not willing to give water stats.
We need test results to see what going off. Or we are just guessing.

Red sores on fish can be bacterial, bad water quality, parasites.

 

[Sofia]

Why post if you are not willing to give water stats.
We need test results to see what going off. Or we are just guessing.

Thats what i thought too Wilder but oh well, it's his fish!!!!

 

[Anna Robinson]

I can't seem to see any pictures?

I don't think a parasite would cause sudden large wounds like that, so physical injury would be my guess too. Isolating him and adding Melafix is probably a good bet, assuming your water quality in the quarantine tank is spot on. Bloodworms and brineshrimp 3 times a day won't do any harm as long as your biological filter can cope with the load, but in the long term it's not a balanced diet.

As the others have said, your post and title are a little abrupt. I understand it can be annoying to be asked basic questions if you are beyond that level, but the other posters won't know that. And you are after all asking them to give up their free time to advise you on your fish.

 

[Finderella]

I had 2 of these and they both got severley bullied by their tank mates. It was my Platy that really took a dislike to them and used to 'peck' at them causing wounds like what you show in your pictures.