poly fungus/scar question

[fishtankdork]

well i just picked up a poly from my most trusted fishstore, not so trusted any more....
i usually use him for my pure breed fish addiction and i had him get me a normal poly. 8 inch. female
i jus threw her in the tank <SO STUPID OF ME> without looking, and it seems her nostrils are hurt and she has dark black/grey like tissue with pinkness on her snout.
is this fungus or a scar. im leaning towards scarin cause she was in a tank with a fish she shouldn't have been with.. but... did i unnitentaly screw my other polys by adding her?
shes active as of right now, chasing a smaller poly around the tank which also makes me lead toward scarrin cause at least shes active@!.. she hasn't aten yet but this is only the 3rd hour of her roamin the tank
gimme ur oppions and what i should do

 

[BrtnBoy449]

pictures would definitely help

 

[fishtankdork]

sorry for blurry pics and how tank looks. in the process of moving so the tank bottom is kept bare tll its moved to the new location

 

[deangelo]

get clearer pics, from what i can make out of the pic it looks like a wound from a bite...hard to imagine you didn't see it when you picked it up, cause it's right on its head...whats were it's tankmates at the LFS?

 

[fishtankdork]

a decent sized reddevil.. and he just pointed to the red devil tank and told me he had a poly for me..
i was like bag it..
this is a guy that usually quartines hsi fish for 2 weeks before selling them to anyone so i was like 'no friggen way when i got home'

 

[deangelo]

you should return it seeing as it happened at the LFS, and if he bagged it I'm sure he saw the mark...cichlids have tendency to peck and lock jaws with other cichlids, it might be what happened to the sen....

 

[fishtankdork]

if its just a wound though i would like to heal him.
i would see it as rescuing! but if its fungus which i don't think it is i would return him

 

[deangelo]

if its just a wound though i would like to heal him.
i would see it as rescuing! but if its fungus which i don't think it is i would return him

it's your call dude, best of luck...post pics when he's all healed up..

 

[CichlidsGoneWild]

It could be a wound because my delhezi had that when I had rocky substrate. I changed to a finer rock substrate and the would healed up nicely. But get a better pic so we can tell for sure.