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Heartbroken to saw my pleco didn't survive. Noticed red through his skin on his belly.

Thank you. We are fasting him. I hope the poor baby gets better.

He was in an elementary school tank..all the fish ended up dying most likely from the stress of the kids who didn't care how often they hit the tank forcefully. Now the pleco is bloated looking. I've tried to feed him peas, he ate one out of my hand but that was it. He's not much of a veggie...

Thank you! I'll try and see if they're mystery snail eggs or not. I feel bad if they drowned. :(

They are clustered but it's not too big, maybe an inch or two inches max. Should I pull them out of water or think it's too late since they already were dropped in water at the school? :( Thanks for the link!

No, not that I know of. It's a fish tank at an elementary school so they could have been at one point and I wouldn't of known it. If it is snail eggs, will they hatch? If so, how long?

Anyone know?

Aww pleco eggs, how cute. Shame they wouldn't hatch though. Here's pictures, best I could get with my camera! :(

Sure, I'll try to get a picture and post it. I only have black skirt tetras, one pleco, one snail, and platys.

Little white gooey/sticky balls I guess you could say :huh: Strange way to describe it I know.

I do feed my pleco algae wafers, give him a couple a day. He loves to move them around the tank, my pleco is a crazy one!

I just brought them home with the little hood light that came with the tank, should I turn it off then? My tank isn't overstocked at all at the school, lol. It could use a few more! Someone tried to give me a huge pleco for the tank and I did decline that though because I didn't want it hurting...

So..at the tank I care for at the elementary school I came to feed the fish and saw a surprise today. In the corner there were fish eggs! They had to of come from my black skirt tetras. My question is, what do I do now? They weren't there yesterday but were there this morning. It's a 55 gallon...

Great, I may try that later if he doesn't get the air out himself in a few hours. Thanks for the great information! I'm glad my snail is okay, alive, and that this is a normal thing they do.

I tried to move it and see if I could get any air out of him but no luck. He came out of his shell a tiny bit and air bubbles did come out but not all the way and he's still floating. His siphon came out for a few minutes so he's still alive thankfully! I've never owned snails before and to see...

I bought a mystery snail from Petsmart a few days ago and he's been doing well and active. Today he was active and then a few minutes ago I noticed him floating at the top of the tank. He's not "hanging out" or anything and I felt him and he still feels firm but even if I put him at the bottom...

I'm glad to know that he'll be fine this way. I just didn't know if being alone could potentially cause more harm since he's meant to be a schooling fish, even though he seems happy.

I should mention that this was a black skirt tetra that was donated to the tank at my workplace by someone who had 3 black skirt tetras and the 2 others died so they kept this one in a bowl of cold water for 3 months without a heater or filter, so he was by himself for 3 months before he came to...

I've been taking care of a 55 gallon aquarium at my workplace and one of the black skirt tetras came down with what seemed to be dropsy. Treated him at home in a 5 gallon aquarium with marcyn-two and his scales and completely back to normal (no more pine coning), no more eyes bulging (and they...

Selling an Optima air pump that I no longer need. Still works. I'm asking $15 dollars for it. Not sure what shipping cost would be, I'll figure that up if someone is interested in it. :) Best bet would probably be a flat rate USPS box for shipping. Specifications: - 1 outlet - 5000 cc/minute -...

I love plecos too, I think they're the cutest things and have such personalities. I had one pleco in the past (was so small from the pet store it didn't survive long) and it would swim up to the top to eat with the fish and would raise it's back fin everytime you walked to the tank and enjoyed...

Here's an old picture of my lil plecos. :) I'm going to end up bringing the fish home, but I have to go buy myself a bigger tank, I can't take their tank. I've seen it online, just wasn't too sure about buying it online and how safe it'd be.

I'd never abuse the fish, I love animals. That's why I took over the tank, the ole care takers were abusing them by how they took care of them. That's why I'm thinking about bringing the fish home and keeping them here and just getting something else for the school. I know that they won't buy a...

I'm the one who's in charge of the tank, but it's all based on a school budget, so they limit what I can buy and how much I can spend. I do care about these fish, I took over the tank because the old care takers of the tank didn't change the filters for months and months to the point of the...

Once they reached their full size I was going to transfer them out to a bigger tank. I feed them algae wafers and have never had a problem with them attaching to another fish. I haven't had any problems with any of my fish until the power went out that day. I've been trying to find drift wood...