My molly was hit on a rock, now warts appear on the wound. What to do?

[Alf2020]

My molly was hit on a rock, made a wound. Two weeks later the wound closed, it was swimming and actively feeding, there was only a small bump. Now, two weeks later, something started to grow in the wound, it looks like warts. With each day it grows more, she continues to swim and feed actively. It is still with the other fish.

Thanks for any help you can provide

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Tank size: 35 gallons (160 liters)
tank age: 3 years
pH: 7,3
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 10 ppm
kH: 6 ºdh
gH: 12,5 ºdh
tank temp: 28

Volume and Frequency of water changes: 9 gallons (40 liters) weekly changes

Chemical Additives or Media in your tank: seachem prime, Fresh Trace, Acid Buffer, Alkaline Buffer, Flourish Excel, Flourish Iron, Flourish Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, CO2, Uv filter.

Tank inhabitants: 10 mollies, 5 platys, 1 labeo frenatus albino, 1 Electric Blue Ram, 3 Synodontis petricola, 2 True Flying Foxes, 5 Macrobrachium jelskii, varied plants.

Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): no

Exposure to chemicals: no

 

[Colin_T]

It appears to be infected. Try doing a 75% water change and gravel cleaning the substrate every day for a week. Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.

Wipe the inside of the glass down with a clean fish sponge.

Clean the filter if it hasn't been done in the last 2 weeks. Wash filter media/ materials in a bucket of tank water and re-use the media. Tip the bucket of dirty water on the lawn/ garden.

Add salt, (see directions below).
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You can add rock salt (often sold as aquarium salt) to the aquarium at the dose rate of 2 heaped tablespoon per 20 litres (5 gallons) of tank water.

If you only have livebearers (guppies, platies, swordtails, mollies), goldfish or rainbowfish in the tank you can double that dose rate, so you would add 4 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres.

Keep the salt level like this for at least 2 weeks but no longer than 4 weeks otherwise kidney damage can occur. Kidney damage is more likely to occur in fish from soft water (tetras, Corydoras, angelfish, gouramis, loaches) that are exposed to high levels of salt for an extended period of time, and is not an issue with livebearers, rainbowfish or other salt tolerant species.

The salt will not affect the beneficial filter bacteria but the higher dose rate (4 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres) will affect some plants and some snails. The lower dose rate will not affect plants, shrimp or snails.

After you use salt and the fish have recovered, you do a 10% water change each day for a week using only fresh water that has been dechlorinated. Then do a 20% water change each day for a week. Then you can do bigger water changes after that. This dilutes the salt out of the tank slowly so it doesn't harm the fish.

If you do water changes while using salt, you need to treat the new water with salt before adding it to the tank. This will keep the salt level stable in the tank and minimise stress on the fish.

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If there's no improvement after a week of daily water changes and salt, post some more pictures and maybe look for a chemical medication.

 

[Alf2020]

Can salt harm the labeo frenatus albino, Electric Blue Ram, Synodontis petricola or True Flying Foxes? Is it safe for them too? Thank you very much.

 

[Alf2020]

It appears to be infected...

Another doubt. The temperature where I live is rising, now the water temperature is 86ºF. Can this be good or bad for this problem? Thank you very much.

 

[Colin_T]

High temperatures increase the speed at which the disease organisms grow so it can make things worse. However, if the air temperature is warm and forcing the tank temp up, there's nothing you can do about that.

The dose rate of salt I suggested (2 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres) is safe for all freshwater fishes as long as it's only for a couple of weeks. 4 weeks is the maximum time soft water fishes should be exposed to salt because they are more susceptible to kidney damage, which results from long term exposure to high levels of salt.

 

[Alf2020]

High temperatures increase....

Today I'm going to buy aquarium salt. You said that if it doesn't work, a chemical medication may be necessary, that medication would be an antibiotic or something against fungus or protosaria? What is the nature of this problem?
As the stores where I buy aquarium products are a long way from home, I can already buy that medication and store them if necessary.

Thank you