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mouth spots

Post by Zebadee »

hi all

whilst taking photos of my Plecs to get an id i noticed these grain like spots in there mouth
i was wondering what they could be the fish dont come onto the glass so i haven't noticed them before
is there anything i can put in the water to treat this and is it contaguse to my other cats.

heres hoping its nothing
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Re: mouth spots

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Err, those are teeth.

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:oops:

that good i'm still learning and not seen anything like this before

so better to ask that wish i had
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It's a Peckoltia species so that is not teeths, but you have to make much better pictures both of the mouth and a sideview to determine what this spots is (probably a parasite incapsulated and not harmful) and also which species it's that you asked for in another thread.

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thanks for that Janna will see if i can get better pictures
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