Euthanize before spread???? HELP

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tyjo1334

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fed my fish as usual last night and everything was normal. Well sort of the achara hasn't been eating as normal.and often as it used to and I notice that the next day after feeding it it regurgitates its food within a few hours of turning on the lights. Well last night the achara didn't eat. And today I turn my lights on and I just saw thisuploadfromtaptalk1364783423220.jpg. It looks really bad and I don't want to.spread whatever the heck is going on because I was going to give this fish away for free anyways so help. Honestly killing the fish is my last resort but the other fish in the tank are A LOT MORE VALUABLE and irreplaceable. So please help

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Hard to tell from the pic what it may be. Could be simply excessive mucus. If you have no other tanks, could you set up a temporary vessel quickly? A 150 gal Rubbermaid watering trough is only roughly $100 from places like Tractor Supply Co.
 
you say your cat is regurgitating its food after feeding? how long has this been going on? can you remove the fish from teh tank and give it a close look over, if its got a hard spot in its abdomin it may have eaten somethign undigestable. def quaruntine before just euthanizing. looks liek he may be rubbign alot, hard to tell from that photo
 
Up the temp. Could be velvet. Buddy of mine had something similar on his I.D.'s and he up the temp to 84 degrees f and after about week it was gone. Keep water clean too. so water changes too.
 
if it was velvet it would cover the eyes as well at that advancedment.. looks like some kinda weird fungal thing... not to mention i would treat the whole tank as most diseases once advanced so much on a fish are likely in the system and your other fish are exposed to it already. tbh i would treat it with a melafix/pimafix mixture but there are actual medications out there to try first... if your water quality is already well within' perameters ect... might try in the illness/disease subforum as well if someone else doesn't figure it out. hard to treat something you don't know what it is.
 
Correct me if I am wrong, please, but I thought ammonia burn is usually red, inflamed-like areas, mostly from the fish scratching and rubbing the skin irritated by ammonia. Anothr symptom is excessive mucus production - for the same reason - to lessen the itching/irritation of the skin by ammonia.

Perhaps, we are talking about the same thing, just from different angles.
 
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