Fish disease - lumpy looking

[schnebbles]

I have a little yellow clown goby who is very lumpy/bumpy looking.

I can't get a pic.

Any ideas? Nothing I'm seeing online really seems to fit.

It eats but something is wrong and I'm afraid it won't make it if I don't get it figured out.

thanks!

 

[GimpyFin]

I'd really try and get a decent pic. It'll be kinda hard to help without seeing it.

 

[schnebbles]

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[j_mazzy]

thats crazy. look like cysts.

 

[schnebbles]

it usually stays active and comes out to eat, all other fish are ok.

 

[dweber618]

Strange.... That doesn't look like a clown goby to me, not that I'm an expert.

 

[schnebbles]

I got it from LiveAquaria, it's just a yellow clown. It looks like the pics I see online minus the lumps. It is so cute, I just cant figure out what is wrong with it. It was skinny when I got it, but it filled out nicely then came down with this problem.

 

[GimpyFin]

One of my ocellaris clowns had something that looked very similar a while back and I aldready had him for quite a while when it popped up randomly. (Just looked like skin colored bumps.) Never quite figured out what it was but I just kept an eye on him and it went away within a week or so. That was probably almost 2 years ago and it's never showed up since then. If it were me, I would probably just observe him for now, make sure he's still eating and keep water quality in check.

 

[scooter31707]

Maybe try soaking it's food in some Selcon or Vita-Chem and see if that helps.

 

[schnebbles]

Unfortunately I don't have that stuff, I'll have to order it.

 

[ZOAREEFTANK]

Just a thought but this could be it. Cauliflower disease



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[CrayolaViolence]

If the fish hasn't been wormed and treated for marine velvet or ich, I'd pull him and do so. Why fish contaminating everyone in the tank or losing the fish?

 

[schnebbles]

I wasn't sure what to treat him for. I guess I should set up a QT but I wanted to know what to treat for first.

 

[TauntingBeef]

My clown gobies got that it would come and go some die some dont i couldnt find any info for treatment so i did standard ttm with pro and form seemed to fix it

 

[schnebbles]

TauntingBeef - that's odd! what's ttm (I know I should know that!) and pro and form? I don't want it to die, it's a cute fish.

 

[CrayolaViolence]

I wasn't sure what to treat him for. I guess I should set up a QT but I wanted to know what to treat for first.

Without diagnostics equipment, no one knows, 100% what to treat for even then a fish rarely has 1 kind of parasite. Most do a broad spectrum treatment like cloraquine phosphate which get both ich and marine velvet, brook and other issues, and then worm with prazi-pro for flukes, intestinal worms, etc.