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Hello I have 2 red blood parrots in a 55 gallon tank running 2 emperor 400s a uv sterilizer 2 air stones and they both in the last 2 weeks began growing a small white bump on their head and now it has gotten even worse where there are 5 + on each of their heads I'm not quite sure what to do and I'm afraid they will die they have been eating and they are around a year old for the past 2 weeks I've been carrying out 50% water changes and keeping an eye on the parameters right now the nitrate is at 40 nitrite 0 hardness 150 chlorine 0 alkalinity 80 and pH 7 any help would be appreciated


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Jack Dempsey
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Im not sure, no experience with parrots but, I can say that the tank size and filtaration is good. maybe a disease from stress?
 
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This happened to my parrot awhile back. It went away after a few water changes, not saying it's the same thing I don't know for sure.
 
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I would first try dissolved salt at a rate of 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons. For fungal infection, use Furan-2 or equivalent for your PH. WalMart carries Jungle Fungus guard which has the same ingredients.
 
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Because so many fish maladies present similar symptoms, it is very hard to diagnose, and could be fungus, and if it is a handful of rock salt could go a long way.
But to me it looks like lymphocyctis, which is viral (and like the common cold) cannot really be treated, other than letting the immune system work its magic. That said....providing an unstressful environment goes a long way.
Your water parameters look good, except to me, 40ppm nitrate is in the stress zone.
Cleaning filter media, and frequent (daily) small water changes, with vacuuming the substrate is what I would do, to bring that number down by 50%.
Detritus is a repository for many of the pathogens that plague our fish.
 
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It's been a few days and the white has cleared up for about 3 days now on the smaller parrot but he still has a hole where the white spots were anyway to get rid of them? It's a little hard to tell from the picture but his head has several holes and has no white spots


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