I had this convict, I have had for years. All of a sudden right at his pectoral fins, he has gotten a planters wart looking growth at the base of his fins. I've tried treating him with several different medications none work. So, is this a type of fish cancer? Or like a less harmful planters wart? Or is this a nasty fungus that I just have to keep treating?
tumor's or fungus is this treatable??
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I'll get a pic asap. need to borrow a camera. Yeah I know it's a convict. Gutter fish, but I was really impressed with them, when I saw them in a 135g. Swimming with red devils, jack dempsey's and other fish my friend had. Perfect fins, nice hump on his head, little badazz attitude. That's the first time I liked them. I started with a bigger one. Because they grow so, so, so, slow.
when ever you can get a pic that would be great. the last post you said hump on the head and a bad attitude, sounds more like a flowerhorn then a convict.
Cbenner, reckless dosage of different treatments is a chemical stressor and contributor to cancer of fish. A lot of medicines are carcinogenic by nature and it would not be surprising that improper usage of it simply aggravates the issue. When a tumor is involved, whether benign or cancerous, there is no cure for that except surgery if the cancer cells have not penetrated deeper into the lower skin tissues. Since this is at the base of the fins, snipping it off with sharp scissors may help to prevent further spreading but I'd like to see the photos first just to be sure of what we are dealing with.