I doubt it is anything they did to the water (chloramine) because I do weekly water changes on all my tanks on the same days and of probably close to 100 fish he's the only one that has an issue. With him breathing hard he's opening his mouth wider open so I was able to get a flashlight and actually shine it in his mouth when he was at the front of the glass and look inside. There doesn't seem to be any signs of any lump or even redness inside his mouth/gills. So whatever it is looks to be right at the edge but on the outside of his gills. I know this sounds a bit weird, but do you think maybe he could have got between the heater and glass and actually burned himself from the heater? there's about a 1" space between the heater & glass. I know my oscar did that one time on his tail when I moved his heater to a spot he wasn't use to it being.
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BTW I appreciate all you guys helping. Really nice to have such a good group of guys all trying to help ya when you need it.
Your my salt and meds “go to”, hehe. 3 teaspoon per 1 tablespoon. Gotta remember that. Lol.
Maybe its a heater burn, but usually heater burn turns to white spot and dont swell up and turn red, unless infected.
Could be heater burn. Odd place for it. I could be wrong but i would think the damage would be visible from the outside of the gill plate.
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Just set up a 10g QT tank with some media from one of my canisters. Picked up some Erythromycin today which is a brood spectrum antibiotic for a wide range of bacterial infections so gonna see if that helps him at all.
Thanks, hoping it helps but we'll see. Even if it doesn't then at least I will know I tried. I'll let you guys know how it goes in a few days or so.
