Please help identify and advise of what are these on the fish gill. Thanks.
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interesting - I thought of a possible malignancy - vs - some massive inflammatory response. But - a malignancy would not develop 'quickly'.Interesting!
Looks like eggs of course, but I can’t tell you from what. Copepods produce egg sacs that hang out like that, but the eggs are much smaller.
I had a crazy couple of weeks. More 'normal' now, hopefully.Long time no see
Those are too small to be bangaii cardinal fish eggs. Here is a thought though- maybe this cardinal ate an egg mass from the pj cardinals and it is coming out the gill? I’ve had cases of smelt eggs getting stuck on a fish’s gill raker when they tried to eat them.You might be right. It might be cardinal eggs. This fish always has a weird looking jaw occasionally. The funny thing is that the other two cardinal are pajamas cardinal. Guess he still can carry their eggs.