My fish has white fuzzy cotton like stuff on it - what is wrong with it?

Question

My fish has white fuzzy cotton like stuff on it - what is wrong with it?

Answer 1

Its growing its winter coat.

Answer 2

Is this around the mouth?If so most likely a fungus.Get treatment for fungi's this can effect eating for this fish.

Mouth fungus is a disease your fish can get and it needs to be dealt with ASAP this is highly infectious and contagious.

Fish show whitish fungus on cheeks, lips become swollen and rot away they loose there appetites movements become sluggish If no adequate treatments is taken the fishes frontal part will be rotten and kill the fish for sure.

Unless the affected fish is of considerable value it should be disposed of.before other occupants get this fatal disease.

this fish will suffer if not treated or removed and done else with.Place fish in bucket with tank water, add Methylene blue solution to color water a deep blue place fish in and wait.

Answer 3

It has white spot.

Treat it (you can get stuff at the pet shop) before it dies.

Answer 4

My fish had this its a fungus disease or white spot. Go to your pet shop and they have the treatment for this. Quick before its too late.

Answer 5

this happened to my fish! she has given birth every month, when they do have birth they let go a egg sac that looks just like cotton. a couple months ago my fish missed her birthing day and had a miscarriage 2 weeks before her due date. the sac came out early and was stuck to her because it is sticky. little particles of it were stuck to her and she tried to eat some! so it kinda looked like cotton. no biggy; nothings wrong with her just be looking out in the next month if she turn pregnate!

Answer 6

probably like mold or something. make sure the amonia level is good, it could be a disease that is eatting on it. (parasite) i would take the fish out if there is more than one in there and put it in a smaller tank by itself to contain the disease, so you can just treat him and not all the fish.

Answer 7

it is a disease i think its called cotton wool fungus . get to your local pet shop you can get something to put in the tank to combat it, don,t mean to scare you but i got it in my fish tank and lost some fish because of it.