Please help identify a disease (with pics)

[TonyMuffTana]

I purchased a few german rams 2 weeks ago, unfortunately they introduced ich to my tank which i'm currently treating with quick cure. One of them shortly after being introduced started to develop a bump under its scales. Now the bump is getting ugly so i'm wondering what to treat it with. I've been dosing the tank with malachite green/formalin for the ich, and I'm thinking if this could be a bacterial or fungal infection that can be treated topically with methylene blue or some other antibacterial chemical. The bump doesn't seem like cotton fuzz as in a fungal problem, instead its a hard white lump that keeps getting bigger.

Other than the unsightly sore, the fish is doing fine, chasing all the rest of the fish around the tank.

 

[Emg]

It could be a parasite, but I don't know for sure......

check out this site here, it may help you out....
http://www.fishpalace.org/Disease.html

 

[kveeti]

edit... never mind. The site I was linking was a different URL but when I went to Emg's listed site, it was the same.

 

[NatakuTseng]

Parasitic. Treat with Malachite green, I'd remove the ram from the tank and treat it in a hospital tank, especially with all those plants just as a precaution. Clout may also work, but I'm not a fan of it, its got some downsides.

 

[fishnfst]

Looks like when my arowanas had hook worms.... Came up like pimples under there scales and then broke through... I sedated the fish and pulled them out... 5 days of Melafix afterwards and he was all healed up..... I don't know if this is the same thing or not but thats what it looked like....

 

[telecubby]

I saw a freaky thread with video where they were removeing a cancerous tumour off a fish that looked like that a bit. It was in aquatic plants forum I think. Real freaky stuff.they surgicaly removes it & laser cleaned it up & the fish was ok after