roenicknewf
Tank is never big enough
The last picture definitely looks like lympho..ich is not that big ..
Video of my blue tang with ich???
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MrTuskfish
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I agree. The white lump in the last ich is certainly not ich. I'll bet this fish is behaving and acting normally? Does the bump (or whatever) have a little texture (It may be too small to show) like cottage cheese or tiny cauliflower?
tracyclifton
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The 2 largest bumps show texture. The big one near the dorsal looks like light brown/pinkish califlower and is clearly ouside the skin and is about .5mm high. The others are more white. The one on the pectoral fin looks like white califlower. Even with an HD camera it is hard to see the spots clearly. It never looked like sprinkled salt to me, but that is the first thing I looked for to compare it to. The fish is acting normal and it has been 12 days. Still no signs of anything on the other fish. If it is ich, should the spots have cleared up, fallen off at some point, or is it normal for them to remain and grow that big over a 12 day period? I am still concerned that these could be infections left from the ich spots if it was ich to begin with. I'm still not ruling out ich, I'm just thinking positive. Your thoughts? By the way, I am overfeeding with vitamin enriched foods and plenty of seaweed since that seems to be the best thing for lympho. I am also using probiotics in the tank. I don't know if it is anything other than snake oil, but there seems to be no negative effects. I think the main lesson here is that ich is more difficult to diagnose than most of us newbies realize. I know you guys have a lot of experience but pictures and video of a moving fish are an uphill battle. I'll continue to update. Thanks for all the help.
tracyclifton
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One more observation. This guys sleeps under my hammer coral. Do hammer corals sting fish?
MrTuskfish
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With your info & the last pic; I'm sure this is lymphocytes, a common virus. It won't respond to any meds and almost always goes away with good water, diet, and vitamins. I wouldn't worry about it unless something really changes. Lympho is harmless, from what I know, and not contagious. FWIW; I once had a fish with a lympho growth the size of a grape. I scrpped it off with my fingernail and swabbed the spot with some Mercurochrome. Worked out just fine.
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tracyclifton
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roenicknewf
Tank is never big enough
Now thats interesting ,,good to know ,,i didn't know you could do that ..
Tracy in the vid it also appears the regal has a lympho spot on his left pectoral fin ...I do also notice faint white blotches which i think may just be stress marks from being filmed
MrTuskfish
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It was a good idea at the time; I'm not sure I'd do it again or suggest someone else do it. I just got sick of looking at it and knew it was viral----couldn't see a problem with removing it.
tracyclifton
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I really appreciate all the help. I will continue to observe and post pics and video. Maybe this will help other newbies along the way.
My dad still does that lol... Throws the fish on a cutting board, cuts the Lympho off with a razor blade, and then puts mercurochrome on it. He gets away with all sorts of crazy things I wouldn't dare attempt. I only perform "fish surgery" when there's just no other choice.
tracyclifton
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Not much change today. He is pulling up to the cleaner shrimp. Everything else appears normal. Video tomorrow, the lights are off for the day.
TeenyTank
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I am by no means an expert on this subject, I can only speak from current experience. That is EXACTLY what my blue tang looked like before I began copper treatment. He had the little white spots, they'd fade to black, he got puffy white spots which I figured was either lymph or a fungal/bacterial secondary infection due to the stress of the ich and small tank. He'd flash like crazy, pull up to the cleaner shrimp and stay till he couldn't stand it. The cleaner shrimp got sick of him and he'd let the sixline pick at him, and even pulled up to the the emerald crab!! who grabbed his fin and started pulling pieces of lower fin off of him! That's when I freaked out and decide to stop waiting around and copper treat all my fish. So heart wrenching. I am now at day 9 of copper and he looks and obviously feels so much better. still has the secondary infection, whatever it is. Good luck with your blue tang!
tracyclifton
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Day 14
Day 14
Day 14 and its looking a little better. I will update every 2 or 3 days. Hope this helps someone along the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAWhgXMnjw
Day 14
Day 14 and its looking a little better. I will update every 2 or 3 days. Hope this helps someone along the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAWhgXMnjw
tracyclifton
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tracyclifton
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Day 21
Day 21
Well, its day 21. The blue hippo still acts as if nothing is bothering it. The smaller tumors are almost gone, but it has a larger one now on its right side. Still no apparent signs on the other fish. On a sadder note, my sailfin tang was showing signs of getting bullied last week. On Friday it wasn't eating, and by the end of the day it was gone. Its fins were torn, and I had seen my powder brown being very aggressive with it. For about three days leading up to the death the powder brown was raging back and forth in the tank when the moon lights were on early in the mornings.
http://youtu.be/22KmTRP46EI
Day 21
Well, its day 21. The blue hippo still acts as if nothing is bothering it. The smaller tumors are almost gone, but it has a larger one now on its right side. Still no apparent signs on the other fish. On a sadder note, my sailfin tang was showing signs of getting bullied last week. On Friday it wasn't eating, and by the end of the day it was gone. Its fins were torn, and I had seen my powder brown being very aggressive with it. For about three days leading up to the death the powder brown was raging back and forth in the tank when the moon lights were on early in the mornings.
http://youtu.be/22KmTRP46EI
tracyclifton
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Day 28
Day 28
http://youtu.be/DGPXoCqXHyc
This will be my last post on this thread. This video is a few days ago. After 30 days the signs of lympho are almost gone. I think the most important lesson here is that I didn't panic when I first thought it was ich. I know that some suggested to immediately take all the fish out and treat them. However, I was hesitant and it paid off. This was mainly because I decided that if ich was in the tank, then a little more observation would not hurt because all the fish would already be infected, so I took the chance. So I will continue to closely monitor all the fish, but at this point I am convinced I am ich free.
Day 28
http://youtu.be/DGPXoCqXHyc
This will be my last post on this thread. This video is a few days ago. After 30 days the signs of lympho are almost gone. I think the most important lesson here is that I didn't panic when I first thought it was ich. I know that some suggested to immediately take all the fish out and treat them. However, I was hesitant and it paid off. This was mainly because I decided that if ich was in the tank, then a little more observation would not hurt because all the fish would already be infected, so I took the chance. So I will continue to closely monitor all the fish, but at this point I am convinced I am ich free.
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