Butterfly Bumps

9975 · Mar 30, 2021

This butterfly is 3 days from being done with a standard copper/metro/gc QT. A couple of there bumps showed up this morning.

This butterfly looked rough when I got it but has fatten up quite a bit. It eats anything that goes in the tank which is typical LRS. The nip on the yellow fin is healing nicely as it was bad when I got it.

Any ideas? Sorry about the little bit of water stains on the glass.

redfishbluefish · Mar 30, 2021

@Jay Hemdal might be able to help.

vetteguy53081 · Mar 30, 2021

This is likely a form of lympho and associated with issues with water quality and diet.
Assure your parameters(ammonia-nitrate-nitrate- ph- salinity) are optimum. If you’re using api test kits, you may be getting false readings.
This fish is both omnivore and herbivore. LRS herbivore diet and spirulina brine shrimp, rods original blend, hikari cuisine are good foods

9975 · Mar 30, 2021

Thanks Vette. Forgot to mention that I put about 1/2 seaweed sheet in 2x a week. Have an orange should and whitetail bristletooth in there

gentlefish · Mar 30, 2021

Had it similar after copper, went away all by itself. Took time though.

Jay Hemdal · Mar 30, 2021

9975 said:
This butterfly is 3 days from being done with a standard copper/metro/gc QT. A couple of there bumps showed up this morning.

This butterfly looked rough when I got it but has fatten up quite a bit. It eats anything that goes in the tank which is typical LRS. The nip on the yellow fin is healing nicely as it was bad when I got it.

Any ideas? Sorry about the little bit of water stains on the glass.

Pyramid butterflies get this a lot. As long as it has been treated with a proper dose of copper and prazi, it isn’t anything to worry about. I would give it 30 days of copper, 3 prazi doses, 7 days apart and then two weeks of observation. At the end, give it a diagnostic dip for Neobenedenia flukes (common in this species, but is not what is causing those nodules).
So what are these? IDK. They could be disrupted scales, or they could be digenetic trematodes (those won’t spread as they require a secondary host).
Jay