Regal Angel in QT injury or something more?

[CorbetJackson50]

See photos. Regal Angel eating like a pig and otherwise perfect so far almost 2 weeks in QT. I noticed this spot a day or two after I brought him home but it hasn’t gotten any better. Possibly gotten worse. I know how delicate these guys can be and want to be as proactive as possible.

 

[tgrick]

Looks bacterial to me. My solution is TRIFECTA. I've used it in the past with GREAT success.
Trifecta is furan-2, kanaplex, and metronidazole combined all together. You need to do a search for it to get the specific details as I do not remember them.

 

[moz71]

Very interesting, as when I first got my regal angelfish he had a bump in the exact same spot as yours and endlessly searches and looked for help and found another person that there regal angelfish had same thing in exact same spot as well. Like the person I found we never really found what is exactly was. I did hold it in QT for a long time and think I tried treating with kanaplex but it never went away until I put it in DT and then cleared. Oh and btw the same with the other person. Only went away once put in DT. Sorry not much more help!
Maybe @Jay Hemdal

 

[CorbetJackson50]

Very interesting, as when I first got my regal angelfish he had a bump in the exact same spot as yours and endlessly searches and looked for help and found another person that there regal angelfish had same thing in exact same spot as well. Like the person I found we never really found what is exactly was. I did hold it in QT for a long time and think I tried treating with kanaplex but it never went away until I put it in DT and then cleared. Oh and btw the same with the other person. Only went away once put in DT. Sorry not much more help!
Maybe @Jay Hemdal

Thanks for the reply. I netted him for pics and he was eating 10 min later so he’s otherwise healthy and got plenty of weight on him.

 

[Tony the Fish]

How about trying prazipro or freshwater dip

 

[moz71]

Yea mine started eating well in QT and was fine! I really wish you the best of luck. If he is eating that’s most of the battle with these guys. I would maybe try some kanaplex to prevent becoming worse or developing into an infection. I found kanaplex very easy on them. Just my thought! I think these fish are very strong as long as eating.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

See photos. Regal Angel eating like a pig and otherwise perfect so far almost 2 weeks in QT. I noticed this spot a day or two after I brought him home but it hasn’t gotten any better. Possibly gotten worse. I know how delicate these guys can be and want to be as proactive as possible.

I always have trouble viewing fish under blue light. Is this lesion whiteish or more gray? There is a rare external fungal disease that is gray.

Are you treating with anything yet? Do you have a quarantine protocol you are using?

Jay

 

[CorbetJackson50]

I always have trouble viewing fish under blue light. Is this lesion whiteish or more gray? There is a rare external fungal disease that is gray.

Are you treating with anything yet? Do you have a quarantine protocol you are using?

Jay

It’s white with a dark center x 2 I am not treating with anything. My QT process for right now is just monitor no preventative treatment

 

[Jay Hemdal]

It’s white with a dark center x 2 I am not treating with anything. My QT process for right now is just monitor no preventative treatment

Just monitoring can be an issue because it puts you behind the curve when/if something does crop up.
You might want to look at the quarantine thread at the top of the fish disease section.
If this lesion grows, you should probably consider dosing with a broad spectrum, gram negative antibiotic.
Jay

 

[CorbetJackson50]

Todays photo. It is getting a bit worse and pretty certain it’s infected but the weird thing to me is it almost seems a bone trying to grow through or something? It certainly seems as something sharp and hard it protruding outwards. I have some Kanaplex arriving Monday. The fish is still eating well.

 

[moz71]

I’m also wondering if there was a injury from netting it before you got it and just got infected. Hopefully kanaplex will help. Try not to keep getting him out. Looks like you used a net and that could keep irritating it. Like I said before still looks like something mine had and went away on its own once in DT. Eating still is great news.