Growth on Lungfish

[wednesday13]

Had this guy 10 months now no issues... great eater and has grown 12" in that time. This growth appeared as what looked like a normal scratch and grew into this within 3 weeks. At first sight i began treating him with medicated pellets. Hes ingested praziquantil and metrodiazonal powder in pellets for 3 weeks now with no signs of improvement. Ive also treated the water with dimilin for external parasites 2 weeks ago. Seems to keep growing a bit each week :/. Any advice on what to try next is much appreciated, not sure if i need to scalpel the growth off and dab with iodine or try another med. Thanks!

thebiggerthebetter , Charney , Hao , Dieselhybrid , JK47

U guys ever see anything like this?

 

[tcav88]

Oddball

 

[JK47]

Oh man that is odd. Never seen that before, sorry Russ.

 

[Hao]

I have not seen anything like this before either. Good luck! Hopefully Oddball would have an idea.

 

[wednesday13]

Oh man that is odd. Never seen that before, sorry Russ.

Thanks for checkin it out Justin, always appreciated.

 

[wednesday13]

I have not seen anything like this before either. Good luck! Hopefully Oddball would have an idea.

Much appreciated aswell Hao

 

[Hendre]

It doesn't look like normal swelling from a wound at all. Was it a clean normal type cut? Or was it a mark that developed into this?

 

[tcav88]

fugupuff

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Neither can I say I've seen this but for now, IMHO, this is a rather unremarkable imperfection, looks like a healthy tissue, a large wart of sort... still unusual I agree. I'd wait it out and see what time shows.

Aren't warts in humans at least (not warthogs ) caused by a pathogen though? If so, what kind? I am having a vague recollection that this was proposed / thought of at some point by the medical community, perhaps decades ago; don't know the current state of knowledge on warts.

Stunning fish! Is this the very expensive lung from Wes?

[1] If very worried and [2] a precedent can be found that flesh-dwelling worms can do that right under skin (my impression is they prefer to reside deeper in tissue) and [3] praziquantel has no effect, which it seems like it is not, I'd try fenbendazole, with feed as you were doing.

 

[Rocksor]

Does it look like the lumps in this scientific article? If so, the scientists had injected gram negative bacteria, and it caused ulcers to eventually show on the lung's skin.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0070650