My choco albino has rubbed his nose raw it is now quite swollen and red. He is about 9in and has a much larger home here in the last few months than he had grown up in. He went from a 55 to a 240gal a few months ago recently he has been acting like its not big enought and swimmin up and down like crazy on one side of the tank. Eating great water fine I don't know what his prob is...?
Injured choco
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I still need help from anyone who has info. I raised the temp and the swelling went down some but now he has a blister looking bubble on his nose. He has always healed really fast, ex. a completely split fin, all healed in 2 days. It has been a week and a half and barely any improvement. Water conditions are great, has anyone seen a blistered pleco nose before? What is it infection, parasite, what? Should I treat with meds? Any info would be greatly appreciated.
have you done a water change recently and what do you use to treat the water? do you treat the water before adding it to the tank or do you treat the whole tank after you add the water?
I do water changes every sunday or better if needed and I use a python hose. With 240 gal tank its kind of hard to treat the water before adding it to the tank. However, I dose with Prime. I measure my dose and add little by little as the water is flowing in. I have done it this way for a while now with no problems, just recently his nose developed this. I bought the "under sink pre filter" cartriges, but still need the canisters.
hmmm, i'm not sure if its the same problem you are having but my oscar got these white blotchy spots that looked kind of like blisters at one point. i figured out it was because i was over treating the water with conditioner by adding volume for the whole tank every week. prime stays in the water for a pretty long time, does your tank water still smell like sulfur when the week is up and you are getting ready to do a WC?
not sure if your pleco's blister looks like my oscar, but that's the only thing i can think of other than just running into something and getting an injury that way.
not sure if your pleco's blister looks like my oscar, but that's the only thing i can think of other than just running into something and getting an injury that way.
Nice fish! Im pretty sure its from rubbing on the tank because he acts kind of neurotic when hes not eating. And he's not starving either he eats alot and will have this crazy behaivor right after eating. He gets quite a variety of foods as well. I dose for only the amt of water I add and does not even have a sulfur smell they day after wc. Maybe he's just weird. Could the temp be too high? I keep it at 84/85 F because I have baby pbass.
temp might be a little high, most plecos like it around 78 degrees but if you've always had it that high its likely not the temp. do you have plenty of surface agitation to increase the oxygen in the water at that high temp? when he swims up and down the glass does he take gulps of air at the surface?
I have a foot long air stone and the outtake part of my filter is pointed up so its always breaking the surface. Very rarely will he take gulps and hes always done that on occasion only in the evening even as a baby when the water was not as warm. When I increased the temp it was from 79 to 84 over a period of about a week and a half...to fast? And good news looks as though the swelling has gone down a little more but still a small blister as if you burnt your finger.