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I have a red zebra cichlid that is in hiding mode (she is one of my females that seems to be constantly breeding, so I think she tries to take a break ocassionally from my brute of a dominant male, and hides).
She looks like she got punched in the lip and I noticed two distinct brown spots on her side. Nothing wrong otherwise. She comes out to eat. No one else has any brown spots.
Is this any injury or an ilness? Like a mite or something? I’ve never seen anything like it with my tropical community fish, Bettas, South American cichlids nor the South African cichlids until now.