The inflamed look where Miss Beautiful's pectorals join the body, has diminished. But they all still have red flushed appearance under the skin, on edges of the body. And now there's a new issue with my older angel. Who still sometimes sits "tilted" nose up in the water or darts around jerking her pelvic fins alarmingly. White lumps have grown out of the corners of her mouth.
It reminds me of the lump Foxface had near his mouth. I don't know if the same thing.
The lump on her left (right in the picture) looks torn because Precious has been biting at it. When Miss Beautiful sits motionless nose-up, one of the other fish sometimes nips at her. I don't know why. But I saw it many times with Perry and then Laddie, and I'm feeling very glum about it all, that an end might be near.
I suspect Miss Beautiful won't last out the year- or maybe she'll live a long time lingering in suffering. (If she's suffering, it's hard to tell but the long moments she sits staring at the back wall makes me think so). Wish I could figure out what it is. Could be a lip fibroma- benign tumor that has to be removed when it gets to the point of preventing the fish from eating- or euthanize before she starves. Not uncommon among freshwater angelfishes- I found quite a lot of forum discussions and a few articles on it. But all the picture I've seen of that, it causes the lips to appear bulbous or swollen. I didn't see any where it was on the corners of the mouth. Or could be early stage of lymphocystis, or something else I know nothing about. Which is also viral. . .
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