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Re: Neon tetra mouth growths

Subject: Re: Neon tetra mouth growths
by dismalscientist on 8/2/2012 19:05:38

They're all behaving absolutely as normal - zooming up and down the tank, shoaling nicely, eating, no gasping and they're staying mostly in the bottom 1/2 of the tank amongst the plants.

The other one that has symptoms has one single white spot (doesn't come up on camera, too small!) on his upper lip. I can't see any legions on the spotty fish but two others have paler coloured scales on their flanks, but it's really hard to tell if this is some kind of lesion or just a normal colour variation. Again it doesn't show up in pictures.

Their fins seem ok. Most of them have been a bit tatty since I bought them, they weren't in great condition then but because they were so tiny it wasn't that obvious. Can't see any darker areas either. But then it's only been 'growing' for around a week; perhaps it's early days?

I'm paranoid it's something more than fungus Flexibactor does look similar, but because the fish is so small it's hard to tell!

I've just ordered some Esha 2000 - should I treat with that first and see what happens? Or do you think I should look into getting some columnaris treatment?