Mouth Rot?

[mr.bigglesworth]

Hi I recently had an agression outburst. My parrot fish ripped up my ebjd lip. Is this mouth rot or torn up lip?

If its mouth rot what medication treats this?


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[mr.bigglesworth]

Here are a few more pics. I need to know now if its mouth rot please tell me.

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[petspoiler]

the pics r so grainy, hard to see. but with any wound, u have to follow the Rule of keeping that fish in xtra clean water.
it can make the difference in which direction things go: healing vs possible infection, etc..
if you think it looks "off", any fungus or rot? increase your cleanliness efforts. & sometimes a little salt helps turn things back around too.

 

[mr.bigglesworth]

the pics r so grainy, hard to see. but with any wound, u have to follow the Rule of keeping that fish in xtra clean water.
it can make the difference in which direction things go: healing vs possible infection, etc..
if you think it looks "off", any fungus or rot? increase your cleanliness efforts. & sometimes a little salt helps turn things back around too.

well hes not in terrible water. i have tested and it is within optimal range but their is quite a bit of algae. with my lights and no co2 that should be unusual. nitrates 20-40 ppm and ammo and nitri are 0. water is hard, ph is 7.2-7.4 i have an emperor 400 and an xp3 and water changes 2x weekly 25%. its a 100gal tank with 3 jd 1 dat 1 featherfin catfish 1 giraffe catfish 2 bristolnose all are under 9". with the smallest 2 being 3" most averaging 6-7". does anything sound wrong?
EDIT *shouldnt* be unusual

 

[mr.bigglesworth]

Im at a loss as to whether its physical damage from lip locking with an overly agressive fish, or a fungus, or a combination of both? im thinking either lip lock or both. i witnessed them liplocking on multiple occasions, all of them the ebjd lost. the ebjd isnt the type to start a fight. he defends his small territory fiercely but its mostly flaring, as soon as the actual fighting starts he loses and swims away. he is very mild, solitary and likes to keep to himself. He wa attempting to mate with the female jack dempsey but i suspect the parrot fish intervened.

 

[petspoiler]

I'm speculating that lip locking created some raw areas. it may be going a little south from there. not saying your water is terrible, but for wounds u want Xtra pristine, & really keep the bacterias out: Think "wound-care".
if it was mine, I'd quarantine him. that's easier for doing partial water changes daily. being alone reduces exposure to fish wastes.

 

[ECW]

Water changes and salt will heal him up just fine. Most plants don't like the salt though...

 

[mr.bigglesworth]

Water changes and salt will heal him up just fine. Most plants don't like the salt though...

Thats why im not going to add any salt. their should be a little tiny bit of salt in there because the tank was brackish water like 2 years ago. water changes might have diluted that to nothing though. i will just increase the water changes to 10% every day. and sometimes 20% every other day incase i forget 1 day.