White spot around puffer fish's mouth.

[Aidanwolf]

I noticed a white spot near my puffer fish's mouth and it seems to be getting worse.

 

[Brew12]

Sorry, I can't make anything out in this picture. Any chance you can get a better one?

 

[Aidanwolf]

Sure sorry about that.

 

[Aidanwolf]

Hopefully that one is better

 

[azbigjohn]

I was going to call the #reefsquad, but Brew's already here!

I would lean towards lymph, but I leave that to the pros (which I am DEFINITELY not!)

 

[Brew12]

It really is odd. It does look like Lympho but I'm not sure. Let's wait and see what @Humblefish or @melypr1985 think.

 

[melypr1985]

That doesnt' look like lymph to me. Unless it's raised and cauliflower looking. To me that looks like he scraped his snout on a rock or something. I would give it a bit of time to see if he can heal it on his own. Keep a look out for infection setting in. If that happens, or it doesn't start healing over soon, then antibiotics like kanaplex would be ideally dosed with him in a QT.

 

[Humblefish]

That doesnt' look like lymph to me. Unless it's raised and cauliflower looking. To me that looks like he scraped his snout on a rock or something. I would give it a bit of time to see if he can heal it on his own. Keep a look out for infection setting in. If that happens, or it doesn't start healing over soon, then antibiotics like kanaplex would be ideally dosed with him in a QT.

+1 Possibly an infection starting up. I would be curious to see if it responds to Kanaplex.

 

[4FordFamily]

That looks more to me like an injury to the mouth, possibly from some sort of trauma, that has become infected. Is this a really flighty fish when startled? Sometimes these fish in particular run in to things.

 

[Aidanwolf]

It is pretty much healed, he must have nip at a rock to hard and got scraped.

 

[Aidanwolf]

And now it is back he must be scraping his mouth when he picks at the rocks