about a week ago, I treated the tank with algaecide. Everyone was fine. A few days later, I added an elephant nose, 2 days after that, a Baby whale... yesterday everyone looked fine, the pleco looked remarkably beautiful, he had a huge sail of a dorsal fin. I also added the last bit of algaecide into the tank because it really appeared to be helping. This morning he appeared to be stuck to a piece of marble scrap that's in the tank to provide shelter for the whale and elephant nose.... only he wasn't exactly touching it, about .25 cm from it.. so I touched him with a net, and he was dead, and his fins were gutted as if he'd been dead days. I'm not surprised, because I frequently have fish that appear to have died a week ago, yet I know I saw them fine the day before... someone just likes to pick at them a lot.
I was afraid the algaecide would harm the scaleless whale and elephant nose fish, but they're perfectly healthy!!
Did the algaecide poison the algae that the pleco ate? Why would it harm him in such a tiny (5 gallon treatment size) dose as compared to the 75 gallon treatment?
as I said, I was remarking about how healthy he looked just YESTERDAY compared to how sickly he appeared when I got him.
I was afraid the algaecide would harm the scaleless whale and elephant nose fish, but they're perfectly healthy!!
Did the algaecide poison the algae that the pleco ate? Why would it harm him in such a tiny (5 gallon treatment size) dose as compared to the 75 gallon treatment?
as I said, I was remarking about how healthy he looked just YESTERDAY compared to how sickly he appeared when I got him.