pigroz
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Hi there,
This is my first post in this community and I hope to get some useful hint out of it
I'm writing as in the last 3 - 5weeks my tank lost around 5 albino plecos (around 2cm long).
These plecos born in my tank, grew up for the first 2 months inside a nursery (always in the tank) and survived from the first big selection (the initial number was more than 40-50 little creatures but as soon as they grew up they became 17)
At some point during the past month they started dying of something that seems internal bleeding (see pictures in attachment).
I then tried to:
1 - remove a new small plant (recently added) with leaves green and red which was being eaten by them as I though it was poisoning them
2 - fed them regularly with chunk of cucumbers as I thought it was something related to constipation
3 - run an anti-fungus cycle (Interpet anti fungus & finrot)
I don't know if the anti-fungus cycle will clear up the issue as they often suddenly die during the night and not even every days, the last one died a couple of days ago.
There are no sign of bites, external deterioration or fight, they just have this brown internal blob which seems like blood.
tank mates are: 1 rainbow shark, a small school (around 6) of pepper corys, 4 harlequins and pleco senior and mama pleco.
note: the shark never chased them, he chases just the corys for fun, said so I would exclude his fin.
This is my first post in this community and I hope to get some useful hint out of it
I'm writing as in the last 3 - 5weeks my tank lost around 5 albino plecos (around 2cm long).
These plecos born in my tank, grew up for the first 2 months inside a nursery (always in the tank) and survived from the first big selection (the initial number was more than 40-50 little creatures but as soon as they grew up they became 17)
At some point during the past month they started dying of something that seems internal bleeding (see pictures in attachment).
I then tried to:
1 - remove a new small plant (recently added) with leaves green and red which was being eaten by them as I though it was poisoning them
2 - fed them regularly with chunk of cucumbers as I thought it was something related to constipation
3 - run an anti-fungus cycle (Interpet anti fungus & finrot)
I don't know if the anti-fungus cycle will clear up the issue as they often suddenly die during the night and not even every days, the last one died a couple of days ago.
There are no sign of bites, external deterioration or fight, they just have this brown internal blob which seems like blood.
tank mates are: 1 rainbow shark, a small school (around 6) of pepper corys, 4 harlequins and pleco senior and mama pleco.
note: the shark never chased them, he chases just the corys for fun, said so I would exclude his fin.
