Datnoid disease is nasty
- Thread starter FishNCash
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Sorry to hear about this.. What do you think caused them to get the bumps? What do you feed them daily? Did they just get sick randomly?
My guess is diet. They've been with loach varieties and other bichir growouts. Those fishes didn't have any issues. I've been feeding frozen tilapia primarily and these Indos starting having issues of being grounded (swimming but immediately sinking and staying on the bottom). There's 8 Indos ranging 3"-7". The biggest one solely has the forehead bump and lay on its side. Haven't seen any pimples or bump /boils. I will say a few a couple weeks ago had Popeyes on one side. That's all fine now after treating with rock salt and Epsom.
what you described doesn't sound good. My dats were eating primarily tilapia too. The split bars and 3 bars dats shared the tank. the 3 bars showed no sign of the infections. I move him into another tank before he get infected. The split bars started out with a very tiny pimples then two days later more pimples showed. One pimple grew on the forehead that looked like a flowerhorn kok. After about 10 days the disease ate into the dat beak and game over for the fish. I hope you have better luck.
