White Bloch On Mouth

[rockerBOO]

I woke up this morning and took a look at my fish and found that my female swordtail had a 1/2 cm (maybe) white bloch on her mouth. Pretty small but wondering if there is something I should be concerned about. Thanks.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Its most likely the beginning of mouth rot (same type of desease as columnaris, just affects the mouth/face area), you should use an anti external &internal bacterial and fungal med like Pimafix to treat the fish.

You should also work on your stocking though as it is not ideal, both danios, oto's and swordtails are very sociable fish. You should add another 2 female swordtails and 3-4 danios (of the same type as your current ones, i'm assuming both of your danio's are the same type) and 2 more oto's to help bring each fish species numbers into the ideal minimum numbers. Adding another ghost shrimp would also be good- remember to stock gradually and slowly though. I don't know a great deal on Golden Wonder Killifish thouh so can't help you there.
Not keeping sociable or unsociable fish in the right numbers can cause a lot of stress amoungst the fish, which can bring on desease.

 

[rockerBOO]

Ok seems that the bloch on the mouth was from the swordtail eating the cories eggs from the glass . Got some of the liquid on her lips i guess. Not there now, and it changed position from when i posted to right after so it seems fine.

The problem with my stocking is that I had 4 danios first. Then one died shortly after getting him. (Had the bad advice with cycling). Then i had 1 female and 2 males. Seems the female got to much of the males attention and just past away not to long ago. So now I am left with 2. Danios. I also noticed that I was getting overstocked for my smaller tank. I am hoping to move the danio's over to my 45G once it has done. Also I know that the the swordtail needs some buddies. Again did not want to overstock. Maybe 2 more would not be so bad. And the oto got burned from the heater so now there is no otos. Also the ghost shrimp, I can not find them. The tank is pretty well planted but have not seen them in weeks. Usually when i move something they come out but other than that I am not sure how many are in there.

The killiefish will probally be getting 3 females when i finish up the 45G.

Thanks for the advice . Will keep the mouth rot in mind if i see something like that again.