Blue Hippo Tang Lump

[azorean]

Been researching this for two weeks now, my Blue hippo tang has developed a lump area on one side of its body, is having difficulty swimming, but eating fine. Local fish store is guessing internal parasite or bacteria or worse case some sort of tumor. I have not QT the fish yet, none of the other fish in my reef tank are affected. I bought this fish just a month ago and there was no sign of disease initially. Anyone ever see anything like this before?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Appears to be bacterial but may also be associated with an internal infection
Beast treatment in a separate tank would be seachem kanaplex which is easily absorbed by fish internally and externally

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Been researching this for two weeks now, my Blue hippo tang has developed a lump area on one side of its body, is having difficulty swimming, but eating fine. Local fish store is guessing internal parasite or bacteria or worse case some sort of tumor. I have not QT the fish yet, none of the other fish in my reef tank are affected. I bought this fish just a month ago and there was no sign of disease initially. Anyone ever see anything like this before?

I can't tell you exactly what that is, but it isn't from a parasite. It could be bacterial. It could also be a tumor, but with that, you would have seen it grow gradually, over weeks to months.

Jay

 

[Magicsoftimage]

My Dory got similar but smaller lumps. It has been there for a while and it was fine until this morning It died suddenly

 

[azorean]

My Dory got similar but smaller lumps. It has been there for a while and it was fine until this morning It died suddenly

I’m am so sorry! How long were the bumps there for? Were you trying any treatment in particular?

 

[Magicsoftimage]

I’m am so sorry! How long were the bumps there for? Were you trying any treatment in particular?

It has been there for 2 weeks and came and go all the time. I thought it was due to the fish eating too much. Didn’t treat for anything. However, I noticed that the mouth turned to white a couple of days ago so it could be bacterial infection. The another thing I noticed was I deeply cleaned algae a day ago before it died which made water so cloudy. I don’t know if this would cause any issue but a few people suggested that algae shouldn’t cause death.

 

[azorean]

Our blue hippo passed. Her mouth / face area turned white, she was looking very skeletal within the last day or so - but only on the same ONE side of her body where the lumps were. The opposite side was full and brightly colored. I tried convincing my husband to splice the lumpy area after she passed but he refused. Towards the end she was unable to swim at all. We did QT her and had been treating with Kanaplex and Copper but it didn’t make a difference. Guess we’ll never know what the true disease was, but seems more like a blockage or tumor of some sort.