Please HELP....!!!

[dman0617]

I came home from work and saw this little guy. I don't know if its a cut or something else. What is it.?!?!

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[Brookster123]

What kind of fish is it? Is it still alive?

 

[dman0617]

Its an Oto and yes it still alive

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[leannaby]

It looks like a Hong Kong Pleco but I'm not 100%.. I'm probably wrong.. I'm sure someone will know

 

[fishyfriends3]

Looks like an otocinclus to me, the cut looks nasty is there anything sharp in your tank perhaps decor for example ?

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[mrvincent]

Internal parasite !?!

 

[venymae]

reminds me of a cut, anything he could have run over that was sharp?? Poor fellow. Are any of the others looking like that?

 

[fishyfriends3]

Do you have sharp gravel ?

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[dman0617]

I have regular gravel, no the others are fine I have 4 of em.

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[fishyfriends3]

Anything sharp in the tank, decor ?

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[dman0617]

Nope nothing I would be concerned of being sharp

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[dman0617]

Can you notice anything sharp

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[jwh0818]

Any fish that he may have scraped?

 

[Dallascowboys16]

Just keep you water pristine and he should end up healing. Hmm that's kind of odd, there's nothing in your tank that is even remotely sharp.

 

[absolutangel04]

That is odd. It looks like a cut, but the placement is so perfect that it seems unlikely it would be, even if there was something sharp.
I would say the best move is to just keep the water as clean as you can and hope the fish heals itself. I don't know where it came from. It could have been some weird, freak occurrence with the filter intake or another fish I suppose.

 

[krlw]

I saw the water bottle baffle in the background. Any way the fish could have cut himself on the rough edge of that?

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[Fishfanboy]

U may have a wire or something sticking out of the plant somewher

 

[Pleco1415]

I think I may know what it is. Usually catfish like hiding anywhere they can fit them selves. My Raphael spotted catfish squeezed right up against the heater and he got a burn mark on his belly that looked exactly like that. I may be wrong but the next time your heater is on it might be an idea to put your figure on it a check out how hot it is. I had a Marineland visi therm heater don't get me wrong it's a great heater but it gets to hot. I moved the catfish to my turtle tank were the heater is covered in a plastic guard and now my stupid catfish can't hurt himself.

 

[dman0617]

**Update** the Oto died

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[mrvincent]

I've heard stories about pleco/oto or bottom feeder fish that are burned by hot heaters... May it be that ?