sabazerehi
02/18/2009, 12:59 PM
so after an ich outbreak i quarantined my pair of black and white clown for over four weeks and treated with hypo, the day i put them back in my main tank i immediately notice a lump on the side of my female clown. it's getting worse and i don't know what it is. it's brownish in color and it looks like exposed flesh or like her brains are coming out of the side of her head or something. she's still eating and physically that's the only thing wrong with her. it started as a lump and then turned into an open wound with stuff coming out of it, sorry it's really hard to describe. she seems like she might be gasping for air a little but i might just be paranoid. there's also the male in the tank and a bicolor fairy wrasse which both seem to be doing great. i took some crappy pics but it'll give you an idea of how it started out. please give me some idea of what i should do, should i do a freshwater dip as a cautionary step? can it hurt? i'm going to try to catch her later and put her back in the qt also. i'm just sick of losing fish even when i'm doing everything i'm supposed to, but i know things never go as planned in this hobby but it is disheartening. here are the pics. thanks for any help
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