I'm So Embarassed - What's On My Angels?

[MomeWrath]

btw- quite amazing pictures - nice quality and the fish fins look very good - no frailing on them.

Thanks...That's what was so strange is they look really good all over, except for those fin bumps. I love the yellow on them, it's so bright. I much prefer yellow to the orange varieties.

 

[MomeWrath]

Colonel Mustard is definitely looking better. The bumps seem to be falling off somehow. Sargeant Pepper is not growing as much and his bumps look the same. They still behave just fine, but you can tell that whatever-it-is is definitely taxing them in some fashion. I am just glad to see them growing and looking less like "juvies"!

 

[coralbandit]

I think this is an issue more should be paying close attention to . I appreciate your attention MGP and hope we atleast can figure the path this issue follows if we can't control it ..
Since the start of this thread at least 3 other threads with similar spots on angels have been posted on this forum ..
Most recent ;
https://www.fishlore.com/aquariumfi...ots-on-angelfish-doing-well-otherwise.411101/
Not sure who rembers angelfish 'Aids ' but it would seem clear all these different angels also have 'something ' in common ??
It is always surprising when you see how narrow the selection of fish we have really is ..It would seem regardless of color all three poster have fish that have some genetic similarities ….

 

[MomeWrath]

Another update. Colonel Mustard is now symptom-free. All of his or her spots are gone. There's a ghost of one left but it's healing. Now, Sargeant Pepper on the other hand, is not getting better. In fact I think he has new bumps. Same tank, same food, same everything. Maybe it's because he had more to begin with (leading me back to lymphocystis or another disease). He also isn't growing as fast. It's so strange...

 

[Aziem Kamal]

Did we figure out what it is? I'm isolating my two angelfish right now too. They've developed same spots on their fins. I'm putting them in my 10 gallon quarantine tank with aquarium salt treatment. They are moving to my 75 gallon tank after two weeks. If those spots won't go away, I'll just assume it's just cosmetics since they are acting like normal angelfish!

 

[MomeWrath]

Did we figure out what it is? I'm isolating my two angelfish right now too. They've developed same spots on their fins. I'm putting them in my 10 gallon quarantine tank with aquarium salt treatment. They are moving to my 75 gallon tank after two weeks. If those spots won't go away, I'll just assume it's just cosmetics since they are acting like normal angelfish!

Not for certain. One of my angels has cleared completely and the other is still the same so that just adds to the mystery in my opinion. If it was an illness, it would seem to me that they would both have it. But if it was environmental, it would seem that they would also both have it since they are in the same aquarium. The one that cleared up is growing much faster than the affected one, so whatever it is, it is putting some strain on them I think. Mine are both behaving more or less normally, however, the healed fish seems to be doing a little better than the other one.

 

[Aziem Kamal]

That's good to know. I'm not sure if it's going away on my two angels but it sure does look better (maybe it's because there are no lights in the hospital tank and that I can't see them like I did in my other tank). I'm doing a 30% water change every two days and doing aquarium salt with Paraguard just in case. Hopefully I can see some improvements on them because I love them and their coloration!

 

[MomeWrath]

Update!
Sargeant Pepper is on the mend as well! I haven't been able to get him to hold still for photos, but here's what happens when the whatever-they-are come off:
1st the bump gets really huge and disgusting
2nd the bump starts to peel off and your fish looks like he has tassels
3rd the remains of the bump turn an ugly yellow color and start to fade
last you have a milky area on the fin where the bump was, that eventually heals.
This has been my observation of the advancement and resolution of this condition, in my case anyway.
Colonel Mustard is big and healthy and you can't tell there was ever anything wrong with him at this point. He's been clear for two weeks now. I still don't know what it could be, but with good care it is definitely not fatal. These fish healed at their own pace, and none of my attempted interventions made a lick of difference.
So I'd say the net result is: ugly, but definitely not terminal...

 

[angelcraze]

Almost sounds like a lymph virus, but all the spots lately look the exact same. Oval slightly raised white egg spots. Not uneven cauliflower type cysts. So mysterious.

Well thanks for the update and i'm so happy your beautiful angels are ok!

 

[RamonM]

Two out of 6 of my angelfish have it.

Hopefully it will go away on its own.

 

[coralbandit]

Two out of 6 of my angelfish have it.

Hopefully it will go away on its own.

Welcome !
Thanks for sharing ,I think this is way more common ,at least now then many think ?
Hard to know if people don't say so .

 

[MomeWrath]

Finally got them to pose.
All better!

 

[coralbandit]

Just needed clean water and care huh ?
They look way better and happier now !

 

[angelcraze]

Ahhhh wow! Thanks for this update! Good to know this issue isn't deadly and the angels are fine! They look amazing!

 

[RamonM]

Reading the post carefully I still wonder if the treatments you did with medication actually worked, and that the lesions then took a while to heal after an infection was gone.

I will let my two affected angelfish be, whilst I monitor them. If the growths don’t clear I will try to replicate your actions as best I can.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

 

[MomeWrath]

Reading the post carefully I still wonder if the treatments you did with medication actually worked, and that the lesions then took a while to heal after an infection was gone.

I will let my two affected angelfish be, whilst I monitor them. If the growths don’t clear I will try to replicate your actions as best I can.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

You could be right, but I think good food and clean water did more. I've never dealt with any illness besides ich, that I know of, but it seems that two months is a long time for anything to take to heal. I've had fish with scrapes and burns that always healed in a couple of weeks, but this goes back to May 20, which seems like a long time. I've made a few mistakes with this tank, and I'm still trying to get the water clear as you can see from my last photo. The last thing I did was try to treat what I thought was parasites in my red rainbows with Prazipro. I'm not saying that fixed it either but that did seem to be when the smaller angel really turned the corner. So maybe that helped? But the larger angel was already healed by then. Who knows. And the Prazipro didn't help the rainbows because they didn't have parasites...they are wasting away because red rainbows do not do well in soft water and they quit eating But that's for another thread...