bunebop
Aquarium Advice Freak
Hi,
I was wondering if someone could give some advice about my black skirt tetra... this is gonna be kinda long so I'll appologize for that now. Ok, so prolly close to 4-5 months ago one of my black skirts got really beat up in my 55 by some red minor tetras which I have since gotten rid of as they beat up EVERYTHING in my tank. I moved him to my 15 gal as it was calmer and tried to give him time to heal. He got some lovely fungus and I ended up medicating the tank for a while.. he finally got better, although he's very deformed and his fins grew back beautifully and I figured he was all better minus the deformation. My betta in that tank died and for various reasons I had to take that tank down so I moved him and the other black skirt that had been beat up back to my 55. This was roughly 4-5 weeks ago. The following day I noticed he was looking down and his fins were all torn. I had accidently boiled my 12-13 gallon tank to death the previous night (another long unrelated story, I had a faulty heater) so it was unoccupied and back down to a normal temperature so he got moved into there by himself. He seemed rather sad so about 3 weeks ago I got him two female bettas for company and they all seem to get along fine. His fins are still torn but I don't think they are any more torn than they were when I initally put in him there and I haven't seen the bettas go near him or any picking on anyone else at all. Today I was trying to get some pictures to post (which failed BTW, but that has nothing to do w/ this) and I notice that he has a huge lump/bubble on the right side of his mouth. And I do mean huge. Upon further inspection it looks SLIGHTLY bloodly as well, not a lot, but I'm pretty sure I see blood. Is this a fungus? I can't get a good picture of it so I can't post it unfortunatly... but is there anything I can do? I can move the females to the 55 if he needs to be medicated, but I've never seen anything like this and I don't know if it's an infection or just a blister or what it could be. Thanks so much for any advice.
I was wondering if someone could give some advice about my black skirt tetra... this is gonna be kinda long so I'll appologize for that now. Ok, so prolly close to 4-5 months ago one of my black skirts got really beat up in my 55 by some red minor tetras which I have since gotten rid of as they beat up EVERYTHING in my tank. I moved him to my 15 gal as it was calmer and tried to give him time to heal. He got some lovely fungus and I ended up medicating the tank for a while.. he finally got better, although he's very deformed and his fins grew back beautifully and I figured he was all better minus the deformation. My betta in that tank died and for various reasons I had to take that tank down so I moved him and the other black skirt that had been beat up back to my 55. This was roughly 4-5 weeks ago. The following day I noticed he was looking down and his fins were all torn. I had accidently boiled my 12-13 gallon tank to death the previous night (another long unrelated story, I had a faulty heater) so it was unoccupied and back down to a normal temperature so he got moved into there by himself. He seemed rather sad so about 3 weeks ago I got him two female bettas for company and they all seem to get along fine. His fins are still torn but I don't think they are any more torn than they were when I initally put in him there and I haven't seen the bettas go near him or any picking on anyone else at all. Today I was trying to get some pictures to post (which failed BTW, but that has nothing to do w/ this) and I notice that he has a huge lump/bubble on the right side of his mouth. And I do mean huge. Upon further inspection it looks SLIGHTLY bloodly as well, not a lot, but I'm pretty sure I see blood. Is this a fungus? I can't get a good picture of it so I can't post it unfortunatly... but is there anything I can do? I can move the females to the 55 if he needs to be medicated, but I've never seen anything like this and I don't know if it's an infection or just a blister or what it could be. Thanks so much for any advice.