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Update: There is still stuff coming out of the lump. He seems tired now, he is lying at the bottom of the tank more. His poops are now are thin and translucent in some areas.

There are little white dots poking out from the lump now and I see some white dots floating around in the water.

Ok, thank you for your help. I have been informed that Epsom salts aren't actually useful in this situation so I am sticking with aquarium salts.

I really hope he recovers too, thank you. I am going to start the treatment (eSHa 2000) tomorrow because I read you shouldn't use it within 24 hours of dechlorinators. I'm unsure whether to use the standard dose or the extra heavy dose though. I am dosing the tank with 3ppt of salt, I have been...

Yes I am from the UK, I don't have a vet near me that can treat fish sadly. I could also try methylene blue, melafix, or Interpet Anti Bacteria Aquarium Fish Treatment. Can dropsy cause pine coning on mainly one side of the body? Because most of the pictures of dropsy I can find seem to show...

Thank you, I will be treating him with eSHa 2000, eSHa exit and salt. As a side note I don't think it has anything to do with it, but I have been spraying my plants with neem oil in the same room. Would he present like this if it were neem oil poisoning?

Water parameters are: PH 6.6, Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 5. He looks worse, i'm scared it could be dropsy because he looks like he's pine coning. On the other side of his body his scales have started sticking out. I have no idea what to do, i'm scared to start any treatment incase it hurts...

Behaving normally, but hemorrhages appear and disappear throughout the day. Lump on one side has rapidly grown, appeared less than a fortnight ago. Today scales around lump sticking out and hemorrhages have appeared at the base of the scales.