Strange White Growth On Rasboras' Lips

[xoedusk]

This is a continuation of this post. Here is what's going on:

We had 3 platies, some of their cute little fry, and 5 harlequin rasboras in our 20 US gallon. About one week ago, we noticed a bit of white growth on one of our younger rasbora's lower lip. A more accurate description would be like he has something stuck to his lip. It definetly doesn't look "fluffy" though, despite what that ealier post might say.

So we took this guy and put him in to our 5.5 gallon quarentine tank and started treating that quarentine tank it with Mardel's Maracyn. The next day, we noticed a white patch (not growth) between the eyes of the other younger rasbora. We immediatly plopped that rasbora in to the quarentine as well. Began treating the main 20 gallon tank with Mardel's Maracyn too.

So we had two sick rasboras in our 5.5 gallon quaretnine tank, and 3 platies, maybe some fry left, and 3 rasboras in the 20 gallon. Both tanks were being treated with Maracyn: the quarentine for 5 days and the 20 gallon for 4 days. (This made the tanks very, very cloudy) After this, we plopped in Jungle Fungus Clear tablets into both tanks as a follow up. (This made the tanks very green.) That was about 4 days ago.

Meanwhile, the original sick rasbora with the thing on his lip has shown only a very little improvement. It is still there. The second sick rasbora has recovered completely it seems.

Now, today, we look into the 20 gallon tank and see one of our other rasboras with an identical thing on his lip!! EEEEEP!! What is this?

Has anyone heard of lymphocystis?

The water stats at the beginning of this ordeal were 0/0/5. Now it is 0/0/15.

The rasboras that are in the quarentine tank were new additions. Left them in the quarentine initially for about a week then threw them in the main tank.

Any ideas guys? Please, any help would be appreciated. Rasboras are acting completely normally.

Here is a picture of the initially sick rasbora:

 

[WILDER]

lymphocystis look like a cauliflower or a clump of berries, usually on the fins of the fish.



http/www.aquarticles.com/articles/manage...mphocystis.html

 

[xoedusk]

Any ideas what I can do? I'm tempted to start another week of Maracyn and Fungus Clear. Not sure if I want to put the newly infected rasbora in to the quarentine tank..

 

[WILDER]

Are you sure it not a parasite, just want to check.
I would try tetracycline but it will wipe the bacteria colony out in the filter.
If that dosn't work its a tumour.
Is it possible to blow the pic up as it hard to see.

 

[xoedusk]

Only have a camera phone -- quality and time of exposure isn't too great for fish.

In all, we had 3 infected rasboras in the quarentine tank. We stopped treating them for about a week, and they began to get better. Still a bit of growth on the lip, but much less than before. So a few days ago we threw them back in to the main tank. (They were all so happy to school again.)

Now it's come back again on the original rasbora. Others don't have it yet. I'm tempted to wait this one out and let the fish's immune system do its thing. Or I could throw in some more Jungle Fungus clear (works for fungus and bacterial). Doesn't appear to be parasitic.

 

[WILDER]

Yes issolate it and go with another round of jungle clear.
Good luck.

 

[TheRedDarren]

sorry to resurect an old post, but one of my harleqiuns has this now, very concerned as i have gourami's in my tank, and no quarantine tank, can i treat the whole tank?
what should i do?

 

[WILDER]

Treat the whole tank, good luck.