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It is actually right above the lips that looks abnormal....not like in the photo you posted. It looks kind of like the fish has food in it mouth and sometimes I can see a reddish area above the lips under the skin but it is not food and the condition seems to be there until the fish succumbs.
The Kanamycin seemed to help for a while. I dosed several times and the fish seemed to regain some energy and normality only to have the same issue a week or two later. I moved him to another tank to isolate him and try treating again but he passed. I noticed another smaller baenschi male today...
I picked up some Kanamycin (kanaplex) just to see if he could be saved. His lips kind of look swollen and his mouth is open but not quite the same way the hongsloi was...the baenschi seems to have a large mouth anyways. The fish is a bit more active than it was previously and I did notice a...
The male hongsloi did eventually pass....no problems since then until this evening when I noticed my largest baenschi male sitting on the bottom and generally lethargic. He is not breathing hard, not swollen, has no feces, or anything else to indicate something is wrong other than apathy and he...
but that is not the problem. I have seen something near identical with one or two of my other apisto's over the past year and they usually stop eating, lose color, before dying after a week or two. Oddly enough it seems to have happened more to the Hongsloi's than the other species. The...
Aquatek has been a bit down on stock lately....I was there a few weeks ago and most of what they had was just a few leftovers of various species with most of them being females. They had some "oregon", and panduro's, and paulmuelleri I believe but that was about it as far as quantity. Texas...
Cacatuoides is probably the easiest for most beginners...a few others though not in any particular order and partly based on availability and how "domesticated" they are in the hobby.
borelli, trifasciata, agassizi, macmasteri
I had really good luck with my first apisto which was...