Bacteria, Fungus or ?

[RegalAngel]

Rear of left side dorsal fin has some gray/white blotchy areas...I am treating with Maracyn-2 (bacteria) and PimaFix (fungus). Got the fish about a week ago and noticed this about 3-4 days ago and started treatment then.
Not spreading and confined to one side only. This is the 40g QT and had a couple of other fish in there and nothing on them.

This is a Divers Den fish and we know their quarantine procedures are excellent....the tank water is about 10 days old. The tank had a powder blue tang in it with Lymphocystis (it came down with it in 5 hrs from after a Red Tailed Trigger was added to the DT and the PB didn't care for that). But this does not look like Lymphocystis.

This fish shows no signs of discomfort so I don't expect a parasite is the cause.

 

[jcw]

Beautiful fish. If it's bacterial, the maracyn should take care of it.

Please let us know how he does.

If you can take a picture of the PBT with lymphocystis, I'd really be interested in seeing your case as well. TIA.

 

[RegalAngel]

Beautiful fish. If it's bacterial, the maracyn should take care of it.

Please let us know how he does.

If you can take a picture of the PBT with lymphocystis, I'd really be interested in seeing your case as well. TIA.

While the Lymphocystis errupted and was all over the front of the fish in just 5 hours!...it took about a week for it to calm down to nothing and the fish is now back in the DT.

Never took any photos.

 

[RegalAngel]

Appears this is actually Lymphocystis! Starting to see some nodes on the Caudal fin and the dorsal growth while more "flowery" has not spread nor is there any fin deterioration.

Maracyn-2 nor Furan-2 did nothing to improve the growth.

B. Fenner replied that it appears to be Lymphocystis. I have not seen this form before.

Evidently it spread from the the PB tang.


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