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Thanks again for all your help with this. This is the first time I have had an obvious sick fish. If I take him out of the main tank, would he be ok in a one gallon tank with aerator? That is the only other tank I have. How do you keep a small tank like that clean? The dark patch, where the...

Thanks again. I put the silver dollar back in the tank with the others. No other fish seems to be infected. Over the last 48 hours, the smaller of the two bumps seemed to disappear completely, and the area where the bump was is now replaced by a flat black spot. As for the larger swelling, over...

Thanks again. Yesterday I got some type of general bacterial med and airstone. Nothing has changed now in about 3 days. Could the fish be constipated, or would that give a more symmetric swollen area?

Thanks for the reply. The swelling does not appear hard or irregularly shaped. It does appear like it could be fluid-filled. The area where the anus should be does not look red or inflamed. I really cannot see exactly where it is. I have not seen the fish have a stool in the past day, but there...

I have a 30 gallon tank with 4 silver dollars and 1 gauromme. The tank population has been stable for 18 months. Yesterday I noticed one of the silver dollars with 2 flesh-colored swellings on the right side. The larger one is about 3 mm at widest diameter. The skin is not broken, and the fish...