I have a quick question about my Jardini in case you can help. I had a Jardini for about 2 weeks now, and I put in a pleco (4 inch) recently along with a ghost knife (3 inch) in a 46 gallon bowfront. Recently, my Jardini (about 6 inch) started doing this wierd twitch. It'll swim around, and then suddenly snap it's body really quickly several times. I even observed it swimming by the water filter and turning sideways to scratch it's back. I just took it out and put it in a 10 gallon hospital tank and put in Melafix. I also read online that Primafix is good for any internal bacteria that may be the problem. I'm really new to this and am very worried. Have you ever experienced this or have any suggestions I can do?
One of the symptoms that may have caused it was freeze-dried bloodworms. I don't know if it's a coincidence, but when he ate those I noticed a few minutes afterwards he'd do the twitch. I read certain foods may be too salty or something that causes them to itch. I have stopped feeding him the freeze dried blood worms, though the twitch is still going on occasionally.
Also, he has a slight abrasion on the right side of his skin that can possibly be red, though he had that originally when I first got him at the store and it looked more like a bruise/dark spot. I do not think it is an open sore and it never presented a problem, though I did want to notate it in case it helped diagnose the problem.
I have put him in a 10 gallon quarantine tank along with the pleco and ghost knife (though I plan to take the pleco out and put him back into the 46 gallon tank tomorrow since I just changed the water in there). I have put MelaFix, an Ich Medicine, and a little Aquarium Salt. The Jardini does an occasional flinch here and there.
Please help save a Jardini's life, I am very concerned.
One of the symptoms that may have caused it was freeze-dried bloodworms. I don't know if it's a coincidence, but when he ate those I noticed a few minutes afterwards he'd do the twitch. I read certain foods may be too salty or something that causes them to itch. I have stopped feeding him the freeze dried blood worms, though the twitch is still going on occasionally.
Also, he has a slight abrasion on the right side of his skin that can possibly be red, though he had that originally when I first got him at the store and it looked more like a bruise/dark spot. I do not think it is an open sore and it never presented a problem, though I did want to notate it in case it helped diagnose the problem.
I have put him in a 10 gallon quarantine tank along with the pleco and ghost knife (though I plan to take the pleco out and put him back into the 46 gallon tank tomorrow since I just changed the water in there). I have put MelaFix, an Ich Medicine, and a little Aquarium Salt. The Jardini does an occasional flinch here and there.
Please help save a Jardini's life, I am very concerned.
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