Injured Platy...

[fmervin]

I got 2 female platys yesterday. One of them got a bit adventurous and ventured into the resin cave thingy with few window openings (my loaches love this thing and love to get in from one window and surface from the next). However, the platy was quite big for one of the openings and got stuck in them . Luckily my wife discovered her and I had to rush home from work to push her down from her mouth back into the cave and lift the cave so she could be back in the tank again. However, while doing so she became so frantic she got injured. You can see her white flesh (a deep gash) in her back. Luckily all her fins are intact. She was quite shaken by the experience and was on the tank bed for quite a while. 30 mins later she was swimming in the middle layer again. My question now is will she survive? Do I need to medicate her? Will the other fish try and feast on her if she is a bit slow? Do let me know, I'd hate to see her die. I'll try and post some pics when I get home from work

 

[lilfishie]

if you keep the water clean and look out for any infection then if you spot it early enough i think she'll make a full recovery. Fish do the silliest things, i had a 10" plec get its head stuck in an ornament, luckily i was able to get her out unharmed

 

[fmervin]

Thanks lilfishie, but she passed on this morning. I had a feeling last night she wouldn't make it. I saw a couple of guppies picking on her open wounds. Also she would lay for long periods of time on the bed. Before I went off to sleep, I did find her moving with the other platties. I thought she would make it, sadly it was not to be. Do you think she might have left off any infection in the tank which might harm the other fish? If so, do you think it would be a good idea to medicate the tank as a precautionary measure? I hope the other platties learn from this and not try to venture into that hole again, one of the males is a bit small so he can go through it quite easily. Three months back, I had a loach get stuck between the ornament and the glass (a very narrow gap). luckily I discovered him just before I went off to sleep, I shudder to think what his state might have been in the morning