Related disease? (caution, wide images)

[Kansai_Gal]

Ok, first off, I just cleaned my tank 4 days ago, aside from a 6.6 or so
(which the fish have gotta be used to by now )PH everything's fine.
Now, a few months ago (could be a few weeks, life passes me by and I
don't pay attention) my rainbow had a sort of nobly thing on his side. I
figured it was a tumor or something, but it went away and the side healed.
However, two weeks ago (mainly last week) he's seemed to developed a raw bit on his side.

last week it had 3,4 white bits on the open area... not quite fuzzy like
fungus but much too big for ich. Similarly, I noticed a similar raw-bit on
another rainbow's nose:

They look similar enough that I'm concerned, but I'm not sure what exactly
it is. I've been treating with Pima and Mela -fix and right now it seems to
be not getting any worse (which I assume is the first step.) However, I did
think I saw a bit of fungus around the ends of one of my raspora's tail- at
the same time, he got into my pre-filter box so he just might have been
roughed up from the trip.
Basically, should I keep doing the Mela and Pima -fixes or should I maybe
add something else? I'm going to toss in a little bit of salt now too, but I
mean medicine-wise.


Sorry to bother you all, but the guy (who seemed to be the resident
"expert") said some things that were so untrue I doubt all of his
advice. (that is mainly 3 points:
"never wait 1 month to clean your tank" - if your tank your levels are fine
and you don't have too many fish, that's exactly how often you should,
according to every training manual, magazine, aquarium insert, and person
I've ever talked to
"I clean my tanks every week" - you're doing something very, very wrong
if you have to clean every week. ('cept maybe light gravel cleanup for
Oscars or something)
"those aren't really medicines" - they might be naturally derived and more
like 'tonics', but they TREAT diseases, that's what I call a medicine) I
always hated people who didn't listen to me as an employee but... I just
can't bring myself to trust him.  

[BluDragon35]

Hmm...looks like a bacterial infection to me. I'm not too sure where it would've come from though. sad

Actually...now that I think about it, It might be that the rainbow fish are fighting eachother? It looks like an irritant, and since you said there was another fish with the same coloring on its nose, it could be a possibility. I think the melafix is fine enough, but yah. Not too sure on what else would help.  

[Kansai_Gal]

Well, I've not observed them fighting and they don't really have the mouths for doing much damage. [he's the only one with a 'facial' injury though, it's just him and the one with the mssed up side) I don't have any sharp/graty rocks so... I have no idea what it was. The melafix seems to be helping but since the side on the Austrailian healed then came bcak I'm worried about it happening again. I'll keep up with the Melafix at least. Thanks though.  

[fishguy6]

maybe Ick? try putting some metro or prozy in there or u can try salt i had a sick fish i salted the tank and it was fine in a week hope this helps!