Strange growth on my oto

[bleez]

I've just realised two bubble-like appearances on either side of my oto's pelvic fins. Anyone can shed light on whether it's a disease or it's a sac? Pardon the poor hp photo quality cos i don't have any dc at hand.

[mickthefish]

bleez
if i was you i'd get that fish out very quick and destroy it, it's body is filled with a fluid that if it bursts it will poison your tank, it's like dropsy, so please destroy it before that happens.
mick

[bleez]

Mick,

So it's not dropsy? From my experience, dropsy kills within 1month max. This oto has been fat for over 3months.

[grey_fox]

bleez,

The sac is translucent? I got a few Otos, that's fat like that (no protrusion of scales - probably females?) and skinnier ones (males?).

My fat otos has also been fat for the past 6 months plus and the skinnier ones are forever chasing the fat ones, however I'll check tonight for any form of 'sacs' on the fat ones.

[bleez]

hey greyfox,

Yes the sac is translucent and there is no protrusion of scales. The sacs only appeared on this particular fat oto 1-2 days ago. I have another fat oto but it doesn't have sacs. These two otos have been with me for more than 2 years but only became fat a few months back. As for the skinnier ones chasing the fat ones, I can't really confirm because I didn't observe but I will from now on.