Video of my Queen Angel with pretty bad Lymph...

4FordFamily · Jun 11, 2015

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Anyway, she can still eat somehow and I hope it goes away soon. It appears to be getting better, believe it or not. A few other angels had it for a few weeks but they were all able to kick it quickly.

I feel kind of bad for her, but does not seem very affected.

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Humblefish · Jun 11, 2015

Ironically, I lost an older (10-15 y/o) Queen Angel to Lympho back in the day. It grew over her mouth (so she couldn't eat) and then over her gills (so she couldn't breathe). I attempted "fish surgery" by cutting the growths off, but she died the next day.

Have you tried feeding her food soaked with fish vitamins (ex. Selcon, Zoecon, Vita-chem)?

4FordFamily · Jun 11, 2015

Humblefish said:
Ironically, I lost an older (10-15 y/o) Queen Angel to Lympho back in the day. It grew over her mouth (so she couldn't eat) and then over her gills (so she couldn't breathe). I attempted "fish surgery" by cutting the growths off, but she died the next day.

Have you tried feeding her food soaked with fish vitamins (ex. Selcon, Zoecon, Vita-chem)?

Yup all foods are soaked in Selcon. The gill growth has actually decreased. The mouth growth has grown but it's on the top lip and she can still eat. Surprisingly... But it also looks like it could fall off soon. My cleaner wrasse is always all over her too

Humblefish · Jun 11, 2015

3FordFamily said:
Yup all foods are soaked in Selcon. The gill growth has actually decreased. The mouth growth has grown but it's on the top lip and she can still eat. Surprisingly... But it also looks like it could fall off soon. My cleaner wrasse is always all over her too

As long as she's still able to eat, I would leave well enough alone. Cleaner shrimp will sometimes eat the growths as well.

If you want to read more detailed info on Lymphocystis, see the link below. Apparently Lympho can even grow over a fish's internal organs.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fa181

4FordFamily · Jun 11, 2015

Humblefish said:
As long as she's still able to eat, I would leave well enough alone. Cleaner shrimp will sometimes eat the growths as well.

If you want to read more detailed info on Lymphocystis, see the link below. Apparently Lympho can even grow over a fish's internal organs.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fa181

I hope she makes it she's a beautiful queen. My crappy video cam on my iphone6 doesn't really show her true beauty, more color than most queen I've seen, especially the yellow "band"/area behind her head near her gills

Humblefish · Jun 11, 2015

3FordFamily said:
I hope she makes it she's a beautiful queen. My crappy video cam on my iphone6 doesn't really show her true beauty, more color than most queen I've seen, especially the yellow "band"/area behind her head near her gills

Queens are one of my all-time fav. The one I lost to Lympho was between 10-15 years old, and my dad caught it himself (for me) in Florida. So, very heartbreaking. My wife really likes Blue Angels for some reason. If I had a bigger tank, I'd get a Townsend and we would both be happy. lol

4FordFamily · Jun 15, 2015

Humblefish said:
Queens are one of my all-time fav. The one I lost to Lympho was between 10-15 years old, and my dad caught it himself (for me) in Florida. So, very heartbreaking. My wife really likes Blue Angels for some reason. If I had a bigger tank, I'd get a Townsend and we would both be happy. lol

I love queens myself, I say I like other angels more (like emperor and others) yet if I can only have one large angel, I always choose a queen.

Mine is still eating and getting by. Hoping when I remove copper soon she heals quickly.

My copper levels fell to .4 for a few days a few weeks ago and she got noticeably better in that short timeframe. Her giant mouth growth fell off for that time. When I ramped it back up, it slowly returned. Could be completely coincidental of course.