help needed

[cool guy]

hi to all bros here.... need help on my bluering angel. some kind of fungus is growing at its mouth.

however my fish is behaving normaly. stil eating pallet, mysis, brine shrimp n seaweed....

here is the pic of better view....

hope e bros here can help....

thanx...

[LaW]

it is very likely mouth fungus.

though given the name fungus, but very likely caused by the bacterium columnaris. this is due to bad environment such as over stocking or too much left over food etc.

use antibiotic on ur tank. medication like furan of API or any antibiotic will normally do the job. or if u got source for kanamycin, dip it in ur food and offer it. but it will take longer time.

if its inconvenient to dose in your tank or set up an hospital tank.

dip it with befuran at full strenght.

or dip with myazin with 5 times the recommended dosage on a known volume of water for half an hour. observe the fish.

i dipped my wrasse with mouth rot and fin rot before. took me about 2 or 3 dip on seperate days to get rid of it.

but no one recommended this before and i came up with this method simply by myself. so dip it at your own risk.

all the best and be hasty. it will rather easily if your tank condition wasnt as good.

[cool guy]

thanx.... but wil this spread to other fish?

[LaW]

thanx.... but wil this spread to other fish?

columnaris are opportunists. they feed on flesh on open wounds.

so answer to your question is yes. but its rather unlikely to infect all ur fishes unless ur water condition is that bad and your fishes kept fighting having open wounds.

all the best cool.

try to act fast. im my experience, it can scar a fish if the columnaris eat their way too "in" to the flesh. in worst case i seen so far, columnaris ate away the one of the upper or lower jaw of my friend's fish, leading to the fish no longer able to feed and died soon after that.

and perhaps you could take a clearer and less exposed picture for me to be more sure its columnaris.

[cool guy]

omg.... its tat bad huh.... wil do it tomolo morning.... lucky im off today... thanx bro....

[cool guy]

ar i mean tis morning.... hehe...

[LaW]

omg.... its tat bad huh.... wil do it tomolo morning.... lucky im off today... thanx bro....

im glad im able to share.

and if possible, take a clearer picture, stop feeding/lesser these few days/do water change/clear your filters/add UV/Ozone. it will help abit in lower columnaris count in the column.

all the best cool.