Red-eye With Nasty Looking Pink/white Patch On Face.

[sven_sol]

Hi all,

it looks like one of our red-eye tetras has had a bit of his face bitten.

In between his eye and gill is a patch about 3mm wide and about 6mm long. It looks pink/fleshy and today it looks like there are a couple of small white balls on there.

I'm sorry - I can't describe it any other way.

From my description, can anyone think what this could be?! Fungus? White-spot? face-rot?!?!?

Cheers,

Sven.

 

[WILDER]

Ulcers are pink or red with a circling of white dead skin around the edges.
Still sounds bacterial with the balls.
Myxazin and pimafix or anti internal bacteria med by interpet and pimafix.

 

[sven_sol]

Thanks Wilder, always the fountain of knowledge!

Now sure it is an Ulcer, its not concave - looks more like its on the surface.

The next questions is do I medicate the whole tank?

As I've got a BGK (i.e. no scales) what should I be looking out for, and should I be doing anything in particular?

Sven.

 

[WILDER]

Scaless fish its more the parasite meds they don't seem to tolerate.
If you cannot issolate the fish you will have to medicate the whole tank.
You must increase aeration as med reduce 02 in the water.

Want to make sure the balls don't look like a cluster of berries.
Do the balls have fluffy fungus on them.

 

[sven_sol]

Scaless fish its more the parasite meds they don't seem to tolerate.
If you cannot issolate the fish you will have to medicate the whole tank.
You must increase aeration as med reduce 02 in the water.

I have an air pump with two feeds, pumping through a couple of air stones and an adaptor on the filter that adds bubbles to the out-flow.. do those count?

Want to make sure the balls don't look like a cluster of berries.
Do the balls have fluffy fungus on them.

They are slightly clustered... what could they be then?

No, there is no fluffyness to them - they are just little balls.


Sven.

 

[WILDER]

There a virus but usually most of the time its on the fins will get you a link just to rule it out.
<a href="http/www.fish-disease.net/diseases.htm" target="_blank">http/www.fish-disease.net/diseases.htm</a>
Lymphocystis Disease of Fishes

 

[sven_sol]

There a virus but usually most of the time its on the fins will get you a link just to rule it out.

Cheers