crazy4fids
Aquarium Advice Regular
I recently started doing maintenance on my chiropractors 46 gallon bow front freshwater community. While observing her fish tonight after doing a water change, I noticed that a couple of her fish have something going on.
She has an otocinclis and a couple of marble hatchets that have what looks to be like fine white granules on their lips. Kinda like what your lips would look like if you licked your lips and then stuck them in a sugar bowl.
We have relatively hard water here in River Falls WI. The pH is 7.2, Ammonia 0, nitrite 0. Before water change nitrate was 60, after a 50% water change, it was 10.
This tank has 4 juvenile angels, 8 pristella tetras, 8 marble hatchet fish, 4 ghost cats, 3 blue leopard danios, 5 bronze cories, 1 dojo loach, 1 clown pleco and 1 mystery snail, and the 1 oto. All the fish are acting normal and eating.
The tank is filtered by a Penguin BioWheel 350. The tank has been set up for over a year. They have not noticed the white lips, it isn't very noticeable unless you are looking for it. I will see if I can get a pic of it and add it.
I have never seen this before. It doesn't appear to be cotton mouth or mouth fungus.
I will probably stop back tomorrow and check on them. Contemplating bringing them home and putting them in a quarantine tank.
Thoughts anyone?
She has an otocinclis and a couple of marble hatchets that have what looks to be like fine white granules on their lips. Kinda like what your lips would look like if you licked your lips and then stuck them in a sugar bowl.
We have relatively hard water here in River Falls WI. The pH is 7.2, Ammonia 0, nitrite 0. Before water change nitrate was 60, after a 50% water change, it was 10.
This tank has 4 juvenile angels, 8 pristella tetras, 8 marble hatchet fish, 4 ghost cats, 3 blue leopard danios, 5 bronze cories, 1 dojo loach, 1 clown pleco and 1 mystery snail, and the 1 oto. All the fish are acting normal and eating.
The tank is filtered by a Penguin BioWheel 350. The tank has been set up for over a year. They have not noticed the white lips, it isn't very noticeable unless you are looking for it. I will see if I can get a pic of it and add it.
I have never seen this before. It doesn't appear to be cotton mouth or mouth fungus.
I will probably stop back tomorrow and check on them. Contemplating bringing them home and putting them in a quarantine tank.
Thoughts anyone?
