HELP What is this on my fish?

[soulFish]

Ok I just noticed some stuff on my Mono. It seems, brownish/redish/grayish and it's petruding off the surface of my Mono. It is different to Ich seem like. And it's not pure white like fungus.

I just did a water change and checked my level yesterday.

Ammonia: 0
Nitrates: .01

I'm adding salt and my water temp is 82-83.

This guy is in my big tank it it will be hell to try and catch him, but I don't want my other fish to get anything. I have noticed that most of the fish are "Yawning" alittle more than usual, not sure if thats significant or not?

 

[bigspizz]

The big one is a tiny tumor or small damage. The other stuff is ick...

 

[soulFish]

But Ich is white, this is brownish/gray. And Ich from what I know doesnt do to well in 82-83 degree water.. thats why I keep it on the high side. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[bigspizz]

Try some gel-tech penicillin....It could be a bacterial infection and that will knock it right out. Still looks like classic ick to me though except like I said the big sore....

 

[Jkoziatek]

agreed... it's ich... deff watch with raising tank temp though... cause if u dont do it correctly your increase your chances of spreading ich... i would deff isolate the fish too... and the big one looks liek a lil tumor

 

[Merbeast]

try posting this in the fish diseases section. I don't think it is ich, but I am not the expert. Guppy, Oddball or Dr Joe would know better

 

[Pufferpunk]

I do not believe it to be ich. How much salt is in there? SG? Arre you using marine salt? I wouldn't worry much--common for these things to pop up on fish & then just go away.

 

[aquariumguy2300]

But Ich is white, this is brownish/gray. And Ich from what I know doesnt do to well in 82-83 degree water.. thats why I keep it on the high side. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Ich multiplies faster in 82-83 degree water than in 72-78 degree water. When they tell you to treat ich at higher temperatures, it is so that the treatment will kill off ich faster.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Actually, higher temps raises metabolism. In the case of ich, it shortens it's lifecycle, causing it to leave the host sooner. The free-swimming cycts still must be removed by huge water changes & substrate cleaning.

I am still interested in the questions I posted above. I see FW plants in that tank. Keeping a BW fish in FW, will compromise it's immune system & could be what's happening here. Also, monos are schooling fish that grow to a foot, so a huge tank is in order for a school of them (~300g). They prefer marine conditions as adults.