Surface Tumor? Or Something Else?

[SamiBubbles]

My fishie bubbles started developing a tiny white spot about 9 months ago. I went to every pet shop I could find and no one could give me anything that made him better. Its grown to over a cm in diameter. Someone suggested it may be a tumor? Hes almost 2 years old now. I feel so bad I dont know what to do. Hes been kept in a 5L goldfish bowl with a live plant and been fed pellet food suppliamented with live food with the water cleaned once a fortnight. Had no other problems. I tried to feed him sunday night and he wasnt interested. I tried again in the morning, still not interested. Then mon night I came home and he was lying sideways on the bottom. I got really worried then and scooped him out and put him in his little transport container with shallow water as he couldnt swim too the top to get air. Tuesday night he finally ate something, and has been eating ever since. But last night he developed popeye, probably from being sick in such a small container. Ive been changing the water twice a day. He cant use his 2 big fins proply its weighing his down and eating into him restricting his movement. I dont know what to do. Euthanasia? Any ideas on What it is? Anyone else eler seen anything like this?

[Lady Hobbs]

Tumor or ulcer I'd guess. It really is big and I doubt there will be any improvement no matter what you try.

[S13DWS]

OMG thats so sad :-(

It really looks nasty but it is such a beautiful looking fish... exactly what sort of fish is it?
Sorry its probably a really dumb question to most people on here but I am on my first aquarium and dont know all the species of fish that there are. I only know the type of fish mine are... To put it bluntly I only just found out a couple of weeks ago how to pronounce cichlid!!

[Lady Hobbs]

LOL Me neither. I used to call them chish-lids or chick-lids until I read it was sick-lid.

I have Pterophyllum scalare (common angelfish) and had no clue how that was pronounced. Pterophyllum is pronounced ter-o-fill-um.

I'm not into Latin names and don't use them anyway. Just give me good old common names I can understand. I don't know my own name in Latin. Why make this any harder than it is already?

[CAF]

Pterophyllum scalare (common angelfish) and had no clue how that was pronounced. Pterophyllum is pronounced ter-o-fill-um.
Why make this any harder than it is already?

First Pterophyllum scalare Ter O file um Sk ah lah ray

If you pronounce them similar to Spanish, Italian, Portugese, etc. you will be close enough.


And the reason why I use scientific names... I think I'll give an example....

Rainbow Shrimp.... sounds like a pretty good common name, it's descriptive, it's simple, it's used for 11 different species, huh WHAT!!! but I want my breeder points for this or that species....

Also when you order fish, if you know the scientific name, there is less of a chance you will get the wrong one that will end up eating all of your other fish...

My wife makes fun of me for knowing the scientific names for various plants, inverts, and fish.... but hey I am proud of my geekdom...:laugh1blue:

[SkarloeysMom]

OMG thats so sad :-(

It really looks nasty but it is such a beautiful looking fish... exactly what sort of fish is it?


To answer you question it looks like a vein tail betta. Poor fish, that growth looks pretty bad. So sorry Samibubbles. Don't know what to tell you about that other than sorry. Glad to hear he's eating again.

[tropfish]

I'n sorry to hear that. I've never seen one so big.