bunebop
Aquarium Advice Freak
Ok, so last Sunday my bushy-nosed pleco somehow managed to jump out of my 10 gal. I do not know how long he was out, but it was between 45 min-4 hours. When I found him I was convinced he was dead. I set him on a plastic bag on top of the 50 gal since he was not moving. I then went to take a shower and apparently my brother saw him moving on top of the tank so threw him in! Well, he looked ok that day... since then he's been slowly rotting alive inside the tank. Well, yesterday I noticed the water was very yellow. The pleco was still alive, but rotting. I did prolly about a 40% water change and then tested the stats. To my surprise, the nitrite was up quite a but, which was rather surprising since it is an established tank. I had already done a huge water change, so did not want to do another last night. This morning the partly rotted pleco was dead unfortunatly. I took him out of the tank and he looked in pretty bad shape. My main question is, could my rotting pleco be the reason for the yellow water as well as the nitrite spike and is there anything I can do to clear it up? Thanks very much.