Ellenquacker72
Aquarium Advice Freak
I have a 20g tank with currently 3 platies and 6 Pygmy cories, 0 amm,0 nitrite, .1ish nitrate, ph 8.3.
Out of the blue the other day my pygmy platy started looking very I'll, he was very thin all of a sudden, not his belly as much, but behind his rib area, and he seemed to be having some difficulty swimming, as though it took effort. Not erratically like a swim bladder issue, but he had to wriggle his whole body to get any kind of motion. And his scales some of them just dont seem to lie right, not like a pinecone, but he looks a bit disheveled i guess. So immediately I put him into a 5g quarantine with some aquarium salt and raised the temp to 76 (the 20g it's only about 71ish) and a bit of mela and Pima fix. He's been in there a couple days, but he never really swims just lies on the bottom and wriggles around a bit, so he isnt eating. Today it seems like his body is stuck in a slight C shape looking at him from above. I don't think his symptoms match Tb, but I don't know how he would have parasites, hes never had any issues like this before, and i got him full grown June 2011. Any idea what he could have?
Out of the blue the other day my pygmy platy started looking very I'll, he was very thin all of a sudden, not his belly as much, but behind his rib area, and he seemed to be having some difficulty swimming, as though it took effort. Not erratically like a swim bladder issue, but he had to wriggle his whole body to get any kind of motion. And his scales some of them just dont seem to lie right, not like a pinecone, but he looks a bit disheveled i guess. So immediately I put him into a 5g quarantine with some aquarium salt and raised the temp to 76 (the 20g it's only about 71ish) and a bit of mela and Pima fix. He's been in there a couple days, but he never really swims just lies on the bottom and wriggles around a bit, so he isnt eating. Today it seems like his body is stuck in a slight C shape looking at him from above. I don't think his symptoms match Tb, but I don't know how he would have parasites, hes never had any issues like this before, and i got him full grown June 2011. Any idea what he could have?