okay so its not really ON his mouth. but i have a red fire dwarf gourami whos been in my hospital tank for about 2 weeks now, this problem is not going away.
it started out as a little red spot under the left side of his mouth. slowly, i observed a whitish colored obtrusion sprouting from the red spot it kind of looked like a zit. a zit that a human would get.
at first i thought he had flukes or something, but then something weird happened. after a few days, it kept growing larger and then one day it seemed to have popped, the whitish stuff had become stringy and lesser in mass, it seemed to have been going away. but now its back, although slightly smaller, it looks the same as it did when the protrusion first appeared.
thinking it was some sort of parasite, i upped the temp in the hospital tank to about 93-95 dgrs f. and added some aquarium salt. ive also been doing regular 10% wc's, about every other day. also been treating him with melafix.
needless to say, it isnt going away.
now, i had a few others in the hospital tank with him, a bolivian ram, and a spotted puffer. neither of them seemed to catch what he had, even after being in with him for about a week. the puffer has since decimated the ram, and i have since put up an aggressive H tank and stuck him in there. now its just the gourami.
can someone tell me whats wrong with my beloved fire dwarf gourami?
it started out as a little red spot under the left side of his mouth. slowly, i observed a whitish colored obtrusion sprouting from the red spot it kind of looked like a zit. a zit that a human would get.
at first i thought he had flukes or something, but then something weird happened. after a few days, it kept growing larger and then one day it seemed to have popped, the whitish stuff had become stringy and lesser in mass, it seemed to have been going away. but now its back, although slightly smaller, it looks the same as it did when the protrusion first appeared.
thinking it was some sort of parasite, i upped the temp in the hospital tank to about 93-95 dgrs f. and added some aquarium salt. ive also been doing regular 10% wc's, about every other day. also been treating him with melafix.
needless to say, it isnt going away.
now, i had a few others in the hospital tank with him, a bolivian ram, and a spotted puffer. neither of them seemed to catch what he had, even after being in with him for about a week. the puffer has since decimated the ram, and i have since put up an aggressive H tank and stuck him in there. now its just the gourami.
can someone tell me whats wrong with my beloved fire dwarf gourami?
