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Florencebigfish

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She stopped eating a couple days ago and this spot formed on the back of her disc near her tail. Yesterday we noticed the little white "zit" looking bumps on the front of her disk, today this is what they look like. Water tests perfect and all other fish in the tank are healthy, eating and fine. Here are some pics, please give us your thoughts as to what it is and what we can possibly treat her with. :cry:

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I really have no solid advice but being that your water tests well and frpm the look of it I suspect fungal or bacterial. I hope someone else has some more helpful info for you

Sorry she is sick :( I hope she feels better soon

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Just some small community fish, they all stay at the top. I don't even know the name of them, hubby would, but he isn't home right now. Then there is a Synodontis Decorus and a vampire pleco and a lone discus that hides in the plants the majority of the time. They have all been in there forever with her and no one seems to bother her.
 
It could be a secondary infection from the other fish pecking at her. I have seen discus harass rays before. I would remove the tank mates if you can just to rule them out

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Syno cats and vampire plecs can both do pretty serious damage to a ray
 
Syno cats and vampire plecs can both do pretty serious damage to a ray
yeah I dont have them but thats what I pictured as well, but again Im not a ray guy. hope it works out and you get some experienced info.
 
I am here with her everyday, all day and I have never saw anyone bother her and we have always kept Syno Decorus with our rays, even the breeders. The one that resides with her is small and has been with her since she was a few months old. But, to be on the safe side we will move them. This is when being a multi tank household comes in handy. Her being a moody eater didn't alarm us. She has done that since day one. She will sometimes skip a day or two here and there, at first it alarmed us, but after 2 years of this behavior we became comfortable with it so when she didn't eat for a couple days we figured it was just another one of her fasting spells.....it appears not. :(
 
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