al plecino
New Member
Hi Guys,
Our pleco is very ill at the moment, he's so swollen up it looks like he's swallowed a golf ball, other symptoms are not eating and small blisters on his body that look red, also the lighter markings on his underside have a red patch about the size of 1p. netted him quite easily to put in the hospital container so thats not a good sign.
Tank stats,
140 litre with a fluval 404 and 203 filter, also 2 airstones.
temp - 26 degrees celcius
ammonia - zero
nitrite - zero
nitrate - 25mg/l
ph - 7.5
tank mates
5 gouramis
2 silver sharks
2 flying fox
3 clown loach
4 danios.
everyone else appears fine, just the pleco thats ill. Been using interpet 9 for suspected "dropsy" the blisters dissapeared for a few days but a couple reappeared after netting him tonight.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, weve had him about 3 years and dont want to lose him.
Thanks in advance,
Al
Our pleco is very ill at the moment, he's so swollen up it looks like he's swallowed a golf ball, other symptoms are not eating and small blisters on his body that look red, also the lighter markings on his underside have a red patch about the size of 1p. netted him quite easily to put in the hospital container so thats not a good sign.
Tank stats,
140 litre with a fluval 404 and 203 filter, also 2 airstones.
temp - 26 degrees celcius
ammonia - zero
nitrite - zero
nitrate - 25mg/l
ph - 7.5
tank mates
5 gouramis
2 silver sharks
2 flying fox
3 clown loach
4 danios.
everyone else appears fine, just the pleco thats ill. Been using interpet 9 for suspected "dropsy" the blisters dissapeared for a few days but a couple reappeared after netting him tonight.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, weve had him about 3 years and dont want to lose him.
Thanks in advance,
Al