swollen at the bottom of my S.N.G's mouth (1 ft long) due to? URGENT need help

[wilsonhuweishen]

its been 2 weeks show no improvement, swollen at one side(left side of the bottom of its mouth) is this ammonia poisoning? i'm using carnister flitration, add in aquarium salt already together with this "yellow powder" fish medicine..any ideas what happen? when i bought it last time, it eat alot, recently it eat a little..i fed it with feeder fish, like small KOI, anywhere im from malaysia, sarawak, small town bintulu, nice to meet u all..my place here lack of aquaria medicine, flitration, which is very hard to find qualities, but my dream is to complete a monster fish tank, which recently i had 1 TOMAN SNAKEHEAD 2 FT, 2 RED BELLY PACU 1+FT, 1 SHORT NOSE GAR 1 FT, FLORIDA GAR 7", R.T.C. 8", ARMOR BICHIR 6", PEACOCK BASS 6" AND OSCAR 5".

 

[d1rt]

it looks like how my gar looks when he just swallowed some food.
i know this may sound ridiculous, but have you tried to check inside his mouth and see if its internal or whether its right under the scales?

 

[Chicxulub]

Looks like his tounge.

Also, I'm pretty sure that's a gator gar.

 

[littleg902]

Yep, that's a gator.


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[Ricaracing]

I'm experiencing the same problem with my alligator gar.
I'm very worried too.
I hope anyone could give a reason/solution to this problem.

 

[MonsterMinis]

dislocated tounge? I know sol and richard have talked about this before.

 

[HungDang]

dislocated tounge? I know sol and richard have talked about this before.

yeah, and the only thing that i can remember from that is "let it be" the fish most likely will be ok whether the tongue get back to normal or not.
BTW, that is an alligator gar.

 

[Ricaracing]

yeah, and the only thing that i can remember from that is "let it be" the fish most likely will be ok whether the tongue get back to normal or not.
BTW, that is an alligator gar.

Is anything that I could do to try to help him?
Thank's for the help

 

[HungDang]

Is anything that I could do to try to help him?
Thank's for the help

you can try to relocate the tongue back to normal but that is not easy because of those teeth and the potential of hurting the fish.

 

[MonsterMinis]

The fish would likely need to be sedated to do it... dangerous unless you know what your doing ect.. if he's eating ect I would just leave it if it was my fish. It's one of those situations where intervention may be more dangerous then just leaving it be.