| I took the fish up to him. He said he had seen it before. He has been in business for salt and fresh water for over 30 years.
The bumps do pop like cysts off of the tail. He said was not carp pox or lymph. The bumps when they form really don't look anything like it. He said he was not ich. They don't have the bumps all the time. When a bump shows up, it grows over night, pops the next day, and the area heals within a day. The white spots are like someone injected a small grain of white rice between in the tail skins, it don't sit on top, it is in the tail, to the touch they are hard lil bumps.
Does it make since thou? All I know is they have pure white spots for sure, bumps now and then that disappear quickly. The gills look great. I could not find anything on the slide that looked like ich after several attempts. He just does fish and reptiles, and has beautiful salt water tanks, his eyes are much better than mine, but I could see it really didn't look or behave like pox or lymph. And come to find out it is not ick, internal is all I have left. The pop behaves like a parasite.
I'v done everything external, the last thing wound be internal??? he said it was harder for the parasite to spread by coming out throu the skin, so it comes out threw the tail. The pop is the life cycle part where it releases.
It kind of explains why the life guard treatment worked the best out of everything I tried. It covers parasites, fungus, and ick. I'v been taken in so many directions. Prazipro will cover everything anyway, and the medicated food can't hurt. I'll see how there spots respond to the new treatment.
If it is for sure not ick, not carp pox, not lymp., then what could it be??? I'm out of answers and willing to try anything. But I think I can rule out those three things. It is not bacterial, not fungal, because that would progressively get worse, and it don't look bacterial or fungal.
I was reading on internal parasites, and some could form cyst anywhere including the tail. |