Helpp!! Something is wrong with my giant snakehead!

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Lexzs

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Hi, i'm new in this forum. I have this fish since it was 15cm or so. Now growing to 60cm. These 3 days my pleco starts nibbling at his tail and when i put feeders(baby sharptooth catfish), they also nibble around his tail. But when i woke up all the feeders are gone, meaning he still eating. He used to be skittish when someone around, but he's been so weak that when i came closer he doesn't move an inch.
These are the pictures taken before:
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And these are the pictures this morning:
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And some of the scales are off, caused by all the nibblings i guess
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Feeders arent a good choice, as they usually carry alot of diseases depending on where you get them. Have you tested your water recently?


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ultimatejay said:
Get the pleco out. Many plecos will eat the slime coat of of fish. Especially slow moving fish. In your case your tank is probably too small for the snakehead to get away from the slime sucker. I would add a little salt to help him heal


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Okay i will move the pleco asap. Ah actually the snakehead didn't eat. My dad moved all the feeders.
Okay i'll get the salt then, how much salt/litre should i put it?
I didn't have those tester in my hometown, which is horrible. Thx for the advice anyway.


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I have to agree, remove the pleco, test the water , avoid live feeders all great points...

As for treatment, daily IMO is way to much, if the tank is stable then weekly is fine or maybe 25% twice a week in my experience anything in excess can often cause more stress then benefit. But again He looks pretty big for the tank, depending on filtration you might NEED those daily WC's

I also Would not recommend salt , just clean water a nice big tank and somewhere to hide and relax Most channa seems to have relatively low salt tolerance and do better without it. Probably would be fine in low levels but again Just not something i recommend with channa.
 
sorry for your loss bro keep ya head up and try again this time without a pleco its clear the pleco sucked off his slime
 
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