Help! Lump behind gill plate.

[simon420]

Hello thanks for stopping to read my post!

I managed to rescue this lovely jewel cichlid off a friend this weekend because he always looked depressed in his tank, but unfortunately i did not notice if the lump was there until i got him into my tank.

Im fairly new to fish keeping and try to take good care of my fish so i have not experienced something like this before so hopefully someone has had a similar experience.

I will post more pictures, sorry they are not great my camera is rubbish and hes camera shy the lump is only on one side and in the couple of days i have had him i would say it has slightly enlarged.

Hes eating well and always active, i noticed it soon as i put him in my tank so not been attacked by tankmates (rainbow shark, tiger barbs, yoyos) who are a 5th his size and terrified lol.

Yesterday i started dosing the tank with melafix, primafix and aquarium salt as a start, Any more advice would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[simon420]

This was taken on the 4th

 

[Andy Sager]

I can't tell for sure based on your pics but most likely it's a gill fluke ( parasite) and what you used will do nothing for this. You need to use a medication with Praziquantel in it. If you can get Prazi-pro or Fritz Prazicleanse, these contain Praziquantel. If you can't get any meds over there containing Praziquantel, a treatment of Potassium Permanganate OR Formalin will also help but these are much rougher on the fish and tank and need to be done extremely carefully.

Hope this helps.

 

[Aiken Drum]

Waterlife Flukefree has praziquantel as the active ingredient and is available in the UK (hsmpshire from your bio info). Waterlife did cease trading a few months ago, but I'm still seeing their products on the shelf. Check the expiry date.

Esha gdex which also has praziquentel as the active ingredient. I prefer waterlife products, but the choice of medication here is going to be more limited from now on.

 

[simon420]

Thank you both for your fast response and advice, i have just ordered some fluke solve aquarium because i can get it delivered tomorrow on Amazon but i have also looked and waterlife flukefree is readily available here so i will order that which will take a few days to deliver.

Thank you so much