Flowerhorn mouth not closing

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i feed him 3mm sinking pellets, and he seems to be eating well, i think I'm going to leave him alone and let him be and hopefully he will get better. The ph level is 7.8, very very low nitrite levels, and 25-35 ppm nitrate levels.
 
Looks like duck lips,his stomach seems bloated aswell .
Have u had him for awhile or did u just get it.

Its always good to deworm a fh whenever u purchase.
It doesn't look good

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+1 to duck lips , its not good if it is sorry to say not sure if there is a cure a fh expert on here will though , my flowerhorn had it for a while before I lost him prob few months :( , look up duck lips symptoms see what you think
 
To me the mouth looks pretty clean. If I'm not mistaken Duck lip usually has swelling or a fungal bacteria. And it's a day or 2 before this happens. Did you notice anything wrong at all before this?
If not I think he may have just dislocated it's jaw in my opinion.

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If it is duck lips (Flexibactor columnaris) the first thing to do is get the temp under 82'F, the bacteria is always present, but most virulent at that temp and above.
I will let aquanero (Tom) prescribe a drug treatment.
Here are some pics of the disease in a beani I had, I noticed it after a summer heatwave hit, it appeared, and took about 2 days to die.
No other fish were effected.

 
duanes said:
If it is duck lips (Flexibactor columnaris) the first thing to do is get the temp under 82'F, the bacteria is always present, but most virulent at that temp and above.
I will let aquanero (Tom) prescribe a drug treatment.
Here are some pics of the disease in a beani I had, I noticed it after a summer heatwave hit, it appeared, and took about 2 days to die.
No other fish were effected.

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Did your fish have a bloated stomach as well, I'm curious,l. It kind of looks normal from what I can see.

Can you pm Tom to see what he recommends.

This disease is pretty comon in flowerhorns and it would b nice to know what meds to have incase this happens to any of our fish.

I've never seen a successful treatment of this but I'm wishing the fish the best

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