hi....well my very old male convict is now sick...he has a larger lump on the side of him although seems to act as ordinary as ever, i think the lump isnt some standard thing as it seems to be growing....he is in a standard 2 foot tank and shares it with a female convict and babies....has a hang on filter....i can admit it probobly isnt as clean as it should be but it isnt that bad either...i believe it may have been about 2 months ago when i moved him to another fish tank as the other cracked, but it may have been longer.... the female shows none of the same symptoms...the lump is located around his right fin....

please help he is very old and i dont want him to die now

thanks

~jack~

Posting a pic would help. I had a female angel with the same problem a while back;




I made a few calls to national fish pharmacy, and talked to some angel breeders. Spawns from this female paid for most of the gear in my fishroom, and she was the female out of my first pair. I treated with metronidazole at first, then paracide-d. Clout with epsom salt finally did the trick, took about a month for the swelling to go down.

She is in a 55 with a group of other adult angels now, the male has since been re-paired with another fish. She has shown no signs of spawning, she quit spawning around 8 weeks before the tumor appeared.

thank you very much for the help....
so are you suggestiong to clout with epsom salt....
can you explain what that is and how to do it...
sorry i have little to no experience with diseases and treatments in fish

thank you so much

~jack~

Oh also would i have to isolate the sick convict from the other convict and his babies?....as that could make this whole treatment quite hard and probbly expensive lol damn

Med with Clout: http://www.bigalsonline.com/BigAlsUS/ctl36...uctsclout10tabs

Add epsom salt to the water as well, start with one teaspoon per 10 gallons of tank water. Increase by one teaspoon per 10 gallons for a few days, to bring it up to a maximum of three teaspoons per 10 gallons. Remember to replace the epsom salt when doing water changes.

I would isolate, Clout is pretty strong stuff, and there is no use medicating a well fish. Fry are more fragile than adult fish, strong meds can wipe them out. A 10 gallon tank should work fine for an adult con, this, a heater & a sponge filter is all you need.