Newly bought from a fish store, and this wasnt your bread and butter fish store, these are proffessionals, All store people have been fishkeepers for years, and know alot ( very perfect fish as well ) ( top quality arowana, discus, angels, salterwater fishes, cichlids, koi, you name it, not a sick fish in any tank there. but im rambling about how much i love that store, my point is it wasnt there at the store, it got it from a neon tetra my friend had, last fish they had and needed a new home. i inspected, and the poor, aged neon had a bent spine, and a tail fungus, plus the same red spots ( only noticed after they were it was in my tank ) was only in for like 3 minutes, but my three spot gourami's fin touched the neon, now hear it is a few days later with newly emerged *flukes* ( the neon was fed to a sunfish in a pond ( out of its misery, poor thing had no chance ).
I am hear to ask first off if im right about it being a fin fluke, and two- what medication would be perfect for it.
( i've been a quality fishkeeper for years, but only dealt with internal parasites, fin rot, ich and fungus, no externals ( except some leeches that crept in... ugh. ). All my medication has expired, and im on my way to buy new medication-im only a teenager, so it might take me awhile to get cash few days maybe.
So, any ideas?

sorry about babbling on alot

Flukes are on the skin and gills...I've never heard of a fin fluke. And the parasite would be visable as a white wormy thing. Sounds more like a bacterial problem. How large were the red spots?

about the same size as ich spots, maybe 1.5times larger, about a circumferance of 2 mm ( 2mm all the way around )

My moneys still on a bacterial problem. I look up many sources and found nothing on small red spots other then ulcers. If it occurs again...use some Melafix. :D

Anyone one else wana pitch in? ;)

Hold on let me give a depth-in info on my poor gourami-

1. the gourami is spending most of her time.. near the heater, hidden behind a bogwood. but does come out like... 45% of them time.. like when i come to look.

2.the larger female-slightly- is chasing around, maybe 40% of the times shes out.

3.the gourami is no less active, nor is she not eating,though since i g2 get her away from the heater to notice theres food, she does get less.

4.her colors are still vibrant

5.Oh my god whats this!!, her black spots are dissapearing, who ever heard of a three spot blue gourami losing their spots!?

6. im just a crazy child, i might be exaggerating the time things, like 40%457573 minutes, stuff like that etc.

I HAVE COME TO A CONCLUSION


the red spots, appear only when the gourami feels stressed in some way, also the black spots go away when that happens, they are a miscolouration that shows when stress occurs, much like for bettas stress bars, it is a mutation. nothing to worry about


:woo: W()()T! yes!!!!!! hahahha! :winner:

Or an ulcer, small bruises. anyway, i will melafix for 5 days, if its still there, its a definite mutation