What is it?? And how do I get rid of it??

[BlesOne]

Need help identifying this infection and hopefully obtaining helpful advise on how to cure it. Thanks in advance.



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[woofy]

I am curious too as my friend has the same problem and i feel bad i havent been able to help him it look like the fish is like cracking


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[duanes]

Looks like a bad case of lymphocystus although I've never seen it orange in color.
If it is lymphocystus, it is viral, is ubiquitous, very much like the common cold, self limiting, basically no cure other than water changes, and lack of stress.

 

[Fish on Fire]

Ouch, that looks horrible . . .

 

[notho2000]

Could possibly be bacterial hemorrhagic septecemia or furunculosis. Check this site: http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Vibrio_Aeromonas.html

 

[Decker504]

Thats the festae plague, good luck.

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[the animal guy]

man why you let it get so bad? I've fixed smaller infections of that kind before simply by:

Take the fish out and press your nail next to the wound {from head to tail direction to force out the puss and pick out all the dead loose scales). Gotta get the loose scale out for it to heal.. Then a lot of clean water ..

I dont know what it is but I think the med "CLOUT" will cure it right away and just some time to heal.

Handle it ASAP

 

[BlesOne]

man why you let it get so bad? I've fixed smaller infections of that kind before simply by:

Take the fish out and press your nail next to the wound {from head to tail direction to force out the puss and pick out all the dead loose scales). Gotta get the loose scale out for it to heal.. Then a lot of clean water ..

I dont know what it is but I think the med "CLOUT" will cure it right away and just some time to heal.

Handle it ASAP

It actually happened from one day to another. But it doesn't look like there's any pus though. And there were no real symptoms leading up to this at all. I'll look into clout thanks bro.

Thats the festae plague, good luck.

Thanks.

Could possibly be bacterial hemorrhagic septecemia or furunculosis. Check this site: http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Vibrio_Aeromonas.html

Will do, thanks for the help.

Looks like a bad case of lymphocystus although I've never seen it orange in color.
If it is lymphocystus, it is viral, is ubiquitous, very much like the common cold, self limiting, basically no cure other than water changes, and lack of stress.

Yeah, so far I've done 50% water changes every 2 days, removed his tankmate, stop feeding, raised the temps to the low 80s, and treated with melafix. It seems to be working ok. When I first noticed it one morning, he was almost dead laying at the bottom of the tank very dark in color. By the end of the day he developed those nasty looking sores and fin rot. Over the next few days he slowly started coming back to life. I just want to know if there's something more I can to help him out. I appreciate your help and I will keep up the water changes and the stress at minimum.


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[the animal guy]

well press out whatever's in the wound. Especially pick out the loose dead scales. Those will get it to irritate,, clog, and induce the infection by sitting in the wound. That's crucial to quicker healing.

GL.. Hope to see him heal up soon.

 

[Modest_Man]

well press out whatever's in the wound. Especially pick out the loose dead scales. Those will get it to irritate,, clog, and induce the infection by sitting in the wound. That's crucial to quicker healing.

GL.. Hope to see him heal up soon.

This to me seems like absolutely terrible advice.

The first thing I thought of was hemorrhagic septicemia, but you really cannot ID these diseases from a photo very well.