cameron Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 i notice one of my tetras had some sort of swollen nose it looked like a tiny pimple on the tetras nose/face area that was about 3 days ago and i cleaned it yesterday and noticed now about 3-4 of them have little pimple things on there nose/face are any idea on what it could be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QldAquariumDesign Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 Can you provide a photo? How many pimple things? What colour are they? What are your water parameters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cameron Posted December 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 they are a transparent looking thing with i whitish grey thing inside and i cant really get pics (tried) they are just to small and my camera isn that good and they only have one pimple thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QldAquariumDesign Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 Ich can look like a little whitish greyish thing and it will encase itself in a cyst but I'm not sure that's what you are dealing with. Regardless it sounds like an external parasite of some kind. I'm hesitant to suggest meds without knowing more about it, and I know it's difficult but you can try a prophylactic treatment of Cupramine. (no higher than 0.25 mg/l for 14 days. This should kill any external parasites anyway and if it is ich it should cover the whole life cycle. But you will need a copper test kit. There are others like malachite green that will do much the same thing but I'll let the other members weigh in their opinions first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadFishFloating Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 have you looked into NTD? doxycycline often does wonders but is hard to source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QldAquariumDesign Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 have you looked into NTD?doxycycline often does wonders but is hard to source I can source doxy for you if you need it, cameron (if you decide to go this path). I have a very good vet contact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tutters187 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 How old are the tetras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
