Please help, our 7yr old GSP has a lip infection
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 10:20 pm
Hi!
Please see the attached photo. Our GSP has a reddish-brown wound on his upper lip. It initially looked pretty bad and frayed and after a week of Furan Plus treatment (Melafix Marine did not help) it looks like in the picture, still rough but not as open/inflamed.
Our suspicion is that the cause is overgrown teeth. If this suspicion is wrong, the immediate result of clipping would be less smooth teeth and that (plus the stress from the procedure) might aggravate it.
Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!
DATA
1) pH 7.9, Ammonia nil, Nitrite nil, Nitrate 5-10ppm, SG 1.019
2) 30 gallon, 10kg of life rock, no tankmates except naturally occurring bristleworm (pest), featherduster, zooplankton
3) Feeding small clams, shrimp tails, dried krill, frozen bloodworm, nori sheets
4) No changes in tank recently except cleaning, replacing carbon filter after Furan Plus (which may have killed some life rock)
5) Aquarium relatively new, moved house four months ago, now smallish tank due to landlord restrictions; previous tank was much bigger and more aggressively filtered
Please see the attached photo. Our GSP has a reddish-brown wound on his upper lip. It initially looked pretty bad and frayed and after a week of Furan Plus treatment (Melafix Marine did not help) it looks like in the picture, still rough but not as open/inflamed.
Our suspicion is that the cause is overgrown teeth. If this suspicion is wrong, the immediate result of clipping would be less smooth teeth and that (plus the stress from the procedure) might aggravate it.
Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!
DATA
1) pH 7.9, Ammonia nil, Nitrite nil, Nitrate 5-10ppm, SG 1.019
2) 30 gallon, 10kg of life rock, no tankmates except naturally occurring bristleworm (pest), featherduster, zooplankton
3) Feeding small clams, shrimp tails, dried krill, frozen bloodworm, nori sheets
4) No changes in tank recently except cleaning, replacing carbon filter after Furan Plus (which may have killed some life rock)
5) Aquarium relatively new, moved house four months ago, now smallish tank due to landlord restrictions; previous tank was much bigger and more aggressively filtered
