What Is This Fungus? Help!

Hi,

My fish has a weird fungus on the tip of his mouth up to his eyes. It looks gray/green in color, kind of filmy looking. He has ich too. I am treating the tank with AP Quick Cure which does some fungi infection. Can anyone tell me what the name of this is? He isn't eating either. Thanks. It has already killed one, I don't want to lose another.


Picture is kind of dark, but the chocolate gourami is on the left side of the picture.

I think the blotch was thicker and seems to be thinning out, but it may just be my imagination.

He is in a quarantine tank newly setup with a filter sponge from my other tank. Temp 86F (treating for ich) and the water is mainly RO water.
What you see really developed in the past 2 days.
Ryan

Hi Ryan
I can't really see clearly in your photo of the fish.

The sick fish is in quarantine in your hospital tank so you have done everything for that one that you can.

How big is your main tank?

How many fish are in it?

Are your water parameters ok in the main tank?

Get back to me and I will try to help.

Glo

Hi Glo,

Parameters are ok.

The main tank is 1 month old The very first fish I bought (a chocolate gourami) is doing fine after a battle with ich.

This fish in the picture has some gray/greek milky strange texture on him starting from his mouth to his eyes. Kind of patchy looking, no hair/fuzz. Main tank is 40 gallons, with 12 fish.

So after all the reading it looks like these chocolates are prone to stress which then weakens the immune. But what is causing them stress? I have RO water which is what they want, and the tank was new when I first put the one in, so what type of bad parameters could there have been at that point?

This is discouraging me because I feel like these fish will always be stressed about something.

See the head/mouth area. Better picture.

These fish live for quite some time with the breeder...so what is different in his tanks that when I bring them to mine, all the diseases they were able to fight overtake them?

See attached pic of head area.

See attached


I lost one yesterday to the same disease. I need to know how to treat this in the future.

Hi Ryan

How did you cycle your main tank, was it a fishless cycle or did you use donated filter material?

Pimafix is pretty good for fungus but just hang on until we know what is happening to your fish before you put any meds in.

When you say your water parameters are ok, do you mean ammonia and nitrite or do you test for other things?

Glo

I tested for ammonia nitrate and nitrite. Nothing else though i know ph is at 6.5

Should i be adding a stress medication when introducing these fish? Or is my tank not yet cycled so they are get diseased? I also have malaysian driftwood in the water. I also notice a few cery very tiny little white " bugs" that seem to jolt around on the side of the glass. So small i cant see eyes but they are moving for sure.

Glo, i should also mention the fish had ich in the beginning to. The two that just died also had ich.

I actually ( ignorantly) bought 2 chocolate gouramis as my first fish. One died the next day. The other had ich, was flashing. I started with api ick cure and went to ap quick cure. A month later he is still alive. His coloring is dark chocolate and he eats freeze dried brine shrimp right out of my fingers.

Hi Ryan

How did you cycle your main tank, was it a fishless cycle or did you use donated filter material?

The above is important

I have to go out but will be back this evening and will check your post

Glo

Hi Glo
Fish cycled. I started with 6 white cloud minnows and 4 black neons and 2 chocolates, 1 month ago.

Of that group, one neon died and one chocolate.

I added filter media i bought from the fish store.

ICH - what it is and how to treat

Ryan, look in the pinned section in tropical fish emergencies. I'd be tempted to try the salt treatment for ick. These fish were probably already carrying this disease when you got them, the stress of moving from the breeder to a new tank can be enough to worsen pre-existing disease.

Also, have a read in the emergency pinned section as it has lots of useful info and tells you what to look out for in different diseases of tropical fish.

From your photo I would guess 'slime disease' ? secondary to ick but that is only a guess.

Watch out for the affected fish flicking or rubbing itself against anything in the tank.

Observe for 'stringy white poo' from that fish.

Give as much info as you can when posting in the emergency section too. See pinned section "read this section before posting" as it helps with identification of disease.

Glo