I'm leaning to a biopsy. I'm just a little squeemish about hacking the bubble / growth off the side of his snout. If I can get up enough courage to do it, I can send it immersed in Alcohol to a lab. It is possible it is Glugea heraldi. If that is in fact what it is, sadly there is no cure and it is deadly. If that is the case, I will put him to sleep. He has put up a good fight and I don't want him to suffer. Hopefully the biopsy will be good news. Now I just have to be able to cut it off, hmmm that may take me a day or two to work up the courage. I may wait a little while longer. If it starts to look like there is no other option, I will do it. I need to pick up some batadine to treat the open wound the biopsy would create first.

It is effecting his ability to eat. I am now feeding him live mysis because he can't snick the live feeder shrimp.

Angie