I am pretty sure it is T.B.

jackiomy

jackiomy

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One of my neons hsd T.B. I am pretty sure. He has raised white spots on his body but so far he is acting totally normal, eating and swimming. I have read that it isn't extremely contagious so I have him in a QT tank with Maracyn. Does anyone have any suggestions or anything else I should freak out about?
 
Isnt it transmittable to humans? I would go out an buy those hug aquarium gloves just in case...
 
It isn't ick. I don't know why I thought it was TB. There are 3 round raised spots in a row on his side. They don't seem fuzzy and I know what ick looks like. I am stumped.
 
Is it related to neon tetra disease at all?
 
pinkertd said:
Is it related to neon tetra disease at all?
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I looked up neon tetra disease and none of the symptoms match. He is eating well, schooling with the others, his fins look fine and no deformaties that I can see. The only thing out of place is the round white spots on one side. There has been no additions , not even plants introduced into this tank in 16 months. I have had a consistant nitrate problem in the tank ever since I have had it set up. But Nitrites and ammonia always are zero.
I have ghost shrimp and a bamboo shrimp in it too and they are thriving.
 
Jacki!!! I'm so sorry you have a sick fish. Can you post a pic of the fish? That would help. This could be anything... tumors.... bacterial infection...parasitic.

Please try to get pics.
 
I had a guppy that looked like that. He had a full life and never made any other fish sick. He just had white, wart-looking bumps that wouldn't go away no matter what I did.
 
It could be a viral lesion. Lymphocystis is a possibility. It can cause warty lesions. I had a problem with guppys with this virus. Only guppies developed this problem in my tank.

If it is lymphocystis it may or may not have the potential to affect only other neons, or closely related species, but I would still quarantine him.

Here's some information about it:
"Lymphocystis does show some host-specificity, i.e., each strain (or species) of lymphocystis can infect only its primary host fish, or some additional closely related, fish."

"DNA studies have showed that there are different species of the virus. This has been suspected for some time because the viral particles from different fishes vary in size plus the virus from a fish usually will infect only that species of fish or a few other species closely related to the primary host."

Here is a link to the article on this subject. http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/management/Lawler_Lymphocystis.html

The warty growths tend to be on the fins, but can be on the body of the fish as well.
I'm not saying that this is what it is... but it could be. It would be helpful if you could post pictures.
 
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