Angel fish with huge top "lip"

Starryeyes · 03-03-2007, 10:47 AM

I've got an angel fish with a top lip that grows bigger every day! I've called numerous fish stores thinking it was some weird disease that I could treat and they all seem to think this is a tumor on my angel fish. Just wanted to see what you all thought. It's getting so big that he seems to have a hard time eating. This isn't the greatest picture but you get the idea by the size of that bubble lip.

gm333 · 03-03-2007, 01:09 PM

It is called Lip Fibroma (Fibropapilloma), I have been looking and have not found a treatment for it, see if you can. Here is the info I found, it is #5 under neoplasms, about halfway down the page. http://article.dphnet.com/cat-02/biology2.shtml

Starryeyes · 03-08-2007, 10:43 PM

Thank you so much for the info. Now I will be on a mission to find something on it. All I am seeing now is sea turtles and angel fish getting it but they all say the same exact thing with no cures mentioned.

alexfevery · 03-09-2007, 12:21 AM

thats crazy, human tumors they just cut off with a scalpal, that one seems like it would be a pretty simple surgery, Ive never heard of tumors being cut off of fish though. Could removing it kill him? You might want to think about it.