is this a tumor on my GT?

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Hawkfish3.0;1917662; said:
:WTF:

I'm at a loss for words after reading that response...

lol personally I dont know who is worse, him or C_B :ROFL:

personally I dont think it is a big deal, if you are really worried I would treat with a parasite medicine
 
it might not be what is happening to this fish but that
was my best guess. sorry i couldnt help you out. But hawkfish
you clearly dont think thats even possible even though many fish in the wild have it
so you may want to do some research before criticizing people who are tryin to help
nice bro
 
The ocella is a marking and is flat not a lump/bumb...
 
xFLEAxx;1917898; said:
it might not be what is happening to this fish but that
was my best guess. sorry i couldnt help you out. But hawkfish
you clearly dont think thats even possible even though many fish in the wild have it
so you may want to do some research before criticizing people who are tryin to help
nice bro

What you are referring to is ocelli, or false eye spots. These do not just "appear" on a fish. They are formed by an evolutionary process, which would most likely occur in the wild over several generations' time. I know exactly what ocelli are and that many fish do indeed have them. This, however, is not one of them. I'm sorry if I offended you.
 
I have a 10” Dat and every few months a small white cyst forms at the base of the tail stalk on one side. It starts out very small, grows to approx. 2 mm in diameter, sits around for about a week and then recedes. This has been going on for well over a year. The fish appears to be completely healthy.

My point is that you will see many such anomalies with fish and you always have to determine, based upon visual inspection, if the fish appears to be healthy. If so, and given that you can’t do anything about a tumor anyway (if it is a tumor to begin with), just forget about it. Sometimes, these things are part of the biology of the fish and we just don't understand their morphology and physiology well enough to know what is going on.
 
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