I noticed that 2 of my small clown loaches (1") had a slight lump near their belly. I've posted some pics of this (links below, you can see an enlargement if you click on the thumbnail)...sorry about the quality, they never stop moving.
Again, it is really visible, the lump is on the bottom half of middle black stripe of the clown.
As the clown is swimming on an angle, you can see the lump quite clearly
Last pic - you can see the lump as its very distinct in the pic
Is this a sign of any disease? An accident that occured during the past 48 hours may have a direct effect on this.
On Friday, while cleaning the filter pipe and pulling out the java moss stuck to the filter inlet pipe, I turned the switch off to the inlet pipe, but must have forgotten to turn it back on....I left it like this for at around 15 hours before realising. By then, the water stats had spiked - Ammonia went up to 1.0 and Nitrite to 0.5.
I immediately did a 50% water change, and did another 30% water change 5 hours later. Fortunately, I was able to get ammonia and nitrite back to zero after the 2 big water changes.
In the process, no fish died and the fish are all swimming and eating normally. I know this was a stupid and silly mistake to make and definitely will not make the same mistake again as I've learnt the hard way (literally spent a few hours doing water changes and monitoring the tankwater stats)....hard to imagine what a little thing can cause.
Just wondering if this may have caused the lumps on the 2 small clown loaches?
Again, it is really visible, the lump is on the bottom half of middle black stripe of the clown.
As the clown is swimming on an angle, you can see the lump quite clearly
Last pic - you can see the lump as its very distinct in the pic
Is this a sign of any disease? An accident that occured during the past 48 hours may have a direct effect on this.
On Friday, while cleaning the filter pipe and pulling out the java moss stuck to the filter inlet pipe, I turned the switch off to the inlet pipe, but must have forgotten to turn it back on....I left it like this for at around 15 hours before realising. By then, the water stats had spiked - Ammonia went up to 1.0 and Nitrite to 0.5.
I immediately did a 50% water change, and did another 30% water change 5 hours later. Fortunately, I was able to get ammonia and nitrite back to zero after the 2 big water changes.
In the process, no fish died and the fish are all swimming and eating normally. I know this was a stupid and silly mistake to make and definitely will not make the same mistake again as I've learnt the hard way (literally spent a few hours doing water changes and monitoring the tankwater stats)....hard to imagine what a little thing can cause.
Just wondering if this may have caused the lumps on the 2 small clown loaches?
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