White Growth On Bleeding Heart

[damovts]

Hi,
I noticed today that my bleeding heart has got a white growth on its side it looks slightly fluffy and sticks out of her side. Water stats are all normal...havent added any new fish...the fish isnt beathing fast or acting abnormal even thou it does look a like it has a few bites in its tail.

it is in with other bleeding hearts, tetras, silvertips, female fighters, an angel fish and peppered corys.


Also my female fighters keep fighting and one is getting pretty beat up anything i can do to help this?

 

[minxfishy]

Hi, can you tell us your tank size, water stats for ammonia, nitrIte, nitrAte, Ph please?

Does it looks to be raised up under the skin or actually on top of the skin, is there any redness around the white patch?
Any flicking or rubbing from the fish or any of the others?

You say it looks like a few bites out of the tail, does this look like fraying of the fins or does it look like its rotting away, becoming shorter?

 

[damovts]

Hi, can you tell us your tank size, water stats for ammonia, nitrIte, nitrAte, Ph please?

Does it looks to be raised up under the skin or actually on top of the skin, is there any redness around the white patch?
Any flicking or rubbing from the fish or any of the others?

You say it looks like a few bites out of the tail, does this look like fraying of the fins or does it look like its rotting away, becoming shorter?

yea its 90 litre and the stats r all 0 or 0.25 as normal.

at first i thought it was on top of the skin but now i think its a lump under the skin. no redness. the fish is acting normal and no there is no flicking or rubbing.

its fins are not rotting it looks like the other bleeding hearts might have bit him. the 4 of them tend to fight a bit anyway.

I am trying to put some pics on of it but i dont think they will be clear as the bleeding hearts are always at the back of my tank lol

 

[damovts]

ok here are the pics. in the second one ignore the white patch on its nose that was just a reflection off the glass

http/img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ddebling/DSCF0447.jpg

http/img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ddebling/DSCF0448.jpg

 

[WILDER]

All you can do is issolate and try a bacterial med if no signs of flicking and rubbing.
Is the lump hard or soft.
Lumps that suddenly appear are usually bacterial.
If its a tumour there no cure.

 

[damovts]

All you can do is issolate and try a bacterial med if no signs of flicking and rubbing.
Is the lump hard or soft.
Lumps that suddenly appear are usually bacterial.
If its a tumour there no cure.

ok ill keep an eye on it thanks

 

[damovts]

Just a bit of an update, i got a closer look at the bleeding heart today and its not a lump that sticks out its just a white discolouration under the skin. Is there anything else this could be?

 

[WILDER]

Bleaching beneath the skin can be columnaris and its bacterial.
Treat with a bacterial med.