What does my texas have?

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After transfering my aggressive texas to a new tank previously holding a pair of convicts i woke up this morning and found these black spots on his lips, gills and ends of his fins. I have never had/seen this disease before and the convicts that were in the tank are fine. So i did a 50% water change and added salt to the tank. Any more advice or info would be great thanks.

merry christmas
 
Linoleum;3725231; said:
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After transfering my aggressive texas to a new tank previously holding a pair of convicts i woke up this morning and found these black spots on his lips, gills and ends of his fins. I have never had/seen this disease before and the convicts that were in the tank are fine. So i did a 50% water change and added salt to the tank. Any more advice or info would be great thanks.

merry christmas
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looks to me like ammonia burn.

I would check your ammonia and nitrite; if they are high, you know what to do. A water change, change like 30-40% and add some salt.

Keep doing every other day water changes to prevent ammonia spikes. The water looks cloudy to me, a sign of ammonia and a tank in need of a water change.

Good luck
 
Just looks like healing marks to me....
 
He was locking jaws with the other fish. I got that pretty often with my cichlids in the past. They will heal up in no time. Only concern should be aggression with other fish. Hopefully they have sufficient space and places to hide.
 
well hes on his own now cos he was beating up on everyone. I hope it is just healing not something else, thanks for the advice :)
 
The only negative thing that black spots usually mean is a parisitic larvae of a snail. It's small round black dots. That's not what you see here, so more than likely it is just healing up. I would probably back of a little on the salt, I'm not sure why everyone around here likes to throw salt in their tanks. Watch your fishy for signs of distress. Heavy breathing, clamped fins, lack of motion and lack of apetite. Then if something starts being weird, then start to worry. From what I can see in the pictures, he looks happy enough.
 
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