flowerhorn disease and cure

Question
I have a flower horn developing wound like features around its mouth.I need a cure and the name of it.

Answer
Thank you for your question.

I could make a better diagnosis with a little more information. What is the size and age of your flowerhorn cichlid, approximately? How many cms tall, wide and long is your tank, or how many liters? Have you tested your water? If so, please let me know the nitrites, nitrates, pH levels. It would also help to know what you are feeding.

With the absence of any of this information, I am going to take a guess and say that it is probably HITH (Hole in the Head) or HLLE (Head and Lateral Line Erosion), which cichlids are vulnerable to. Please take a look at these websites and see if any of the symptoms look familiar:

http://www.aquariumfish.net/information/hole_in_the_head.htm#top2
A picture of a cichlid with HITH or HLLE disease.

Let me know if that is what appears to be the trouble, if not, it might be a Flexibacter bacteria (Columnaris) outbreak, which will cause cottony, wooly growths around the fins and mouth. This website has a few pictures:
http://www.flippersandfins.net/flexibacter.htm

Unless you are certain it is either of these diseases, I would not medicate but would instead keep the water extremely clean, feed high quality live or frozen foods such as bloodworms and vitamin-enhanced brine shrimp or mysis shrimp, and add aquarium salt at 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons.
If your flowerhorn is still eating, that is a positive sign - you may consider feeding it medicated flake food.

Below are some sites about flowerhorns which might be useful to you. I notice there isn't much quality information on the web, at least not compared to the common tropical fishes...

http://www.flowerfish.com/
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/FWSubWebIndex/flowerhorns.htm
http://badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile69.html

I hope this information helps. Feel free to follow-up on this. Good luck to you, I hope you see an improvement soon.

Nicole