Iridescent Shark redness

[helptoall]

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Sorry for the bad photos. Ive rescued him 3 days ago and he isnt eating since then. He is not very active and he has a pale redness near his tail and along his body. I suspect that he has some kind of internal infection. Ive had another iridiscent shark that showed the same symptoms and after almost 2 weeks without eating a treatment with kanaplex solved the problem, so im thinking about doing the same with him. What do you think?

 

[Colin_T]

Pink/ red skin on sharks is just about always caused by poor water quality. Make sure the water has 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and less than 20ppm nitrate. Do big regular water changes and give the fish a few weeks to recover.

 

[helptoall]

Hi. he is eating now. but a few times during the day he is stopping to move and hanging in the spot. ive never seen a panaga acting like this, those fish swim all the time.. do ou thing this might be a sign for disease?