Really bad lymphocytosis w/ pics

[KatyMunoz]

Well I am 95% sure my fish has lymphocytosis, as opposed to a fungal infection. While there seems to be no treatment out there (please advise if wrong), and it seems to be rarely fatal, I am wondering If I have the exception.

My pink tail trigger had one spot like this on his tail and a LFS owner pulled it off and said that would be the end of it..... well, it wasn't, and in fact, it came back in his mouth and has continued to grow. While he is still eating now, if the growth gets much larger, I cannot see how that will be possible.

Please let me know by the pictures if it indeed does look to be lymphocytosis, and if anyone has had a similar experience, or any suggestions.

 

[b0bab0ey]

Could be Lympho or could be mouth rot. If it were my fish, I think I'd give antibiotics a shot, hoping it was the latter. The antibiotics found in Furan-2 would probably be your best bet. Obviously, this would have to be done in QT.

 

[KatyMunoz]

He was treated with antibiotics before, to no prevail :-(

 

[b0bab0ey]

He was treated with antibiotics before, to no prevail :-(

Probably Lympho then. As you noted, there is no treatment. It's a virus that can "flare up" for unknown reasons (stress? poor diet?), and then vanish for months or even years. The fish always has it. I call it the herpes of the fish world.

My dad will sometimes cut it off with a razor blade, but I'm not recommending you do that. I've also seen cleaner shrimp sometimes eat it off (but not always). The best thing you can do is feed vitamin enriched foods (Selcon, Vita-Chem) and maintain excellent water quality. This usually enables the fish's natural immune system to fight it off. However, this does look to be a pretty bad case.

 

[geaux xman]

my blueface angelfish had a mouth growth like that too when it was in QT. i emailed LA with a pic and they suggested Bio-Bandage.

i added several drops into a q-tip and swabbed the blueface's mouth about 2x/day. after a few days, it had went away entirely. my BF didnt eat for about 10 days b/c of that growth on his mouth. before that, i had tried formalin dips, maracyn 2, and paraguard to no avail.

i had gotten the Bio-Bandage from some pet place on amazon. it has some of the main ingredients of Neosporin.