Royal pleco, L191, very pale, possibly dead

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mellor21

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Dec 13, 2014
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Today I found my L191 on the glass, which he almost never does. His grays are much lighter than normal. I did a water change and moved all of the decor around 2 days ago. The tank has 3 large pieces of driftwood as well as a ton of lace rock and a large roman decoration. I figured he may be stressed from the rearranging so I put is favorite piece of driftwood on top with the other two large pieces. I'll get a picture up for you guys. His eyes and stomach are not sunk in. I moved him on top of his favorite piece and he hasn't moved for about 30 minutes. Not even holding himself down, just slightly swaying with the water movement. He's in a 75 gallon heavily planted malawi peacock tank with a few other plecos. They get zucchini and pleco algae wafers daily. There has been no aggression towards the plecos and his fins have not been nipped.
I am hoping that you guys may have something that I can try to get him moving again :(
amm 0 ppm
nitrite below .25 ppm
nitrate ~25 ppm
temp ~78*F
water is probably fairly hard, but I don't know for sure.
The tank has been up for about 4 months. He has been in it for about a month and seemed to be doing great. He rarely left the driftwood.
Here are a few pictures
When I first noticed the color problem, about an hour ago
http://imgur.com/x9OjPmy
His stomach
http://imgur.com/Y36tmRI
Where I have him resting right now
http://imgur.com/9fcO1yP
The whole tank
http://imgur.com/9RfhofO
 
I know no one replied, but just so you guys have an update he is dead. I have him bagged up and will take him to the lfs I got him from tomorrow to see if they can figure out what took him.
 
What is MFK?
I had him for 6 weeks.
I acclimated him for about an hour with the lights off.
Amm 0ppm
Nitrites less than .25, you could just barely notice a tinge on the test (api master freshwater)
Nitrates 25-30ish ppm

No, I did not deworm it. Do you just quarantine them and give them some kind of dewormer?
 
mellor21 said:
What is MFK?
I had him for 6 weeks.
I acclimated him for about an hour with the lights off.
Amm 0ppm
Nitrites less than .25, you could just barely notice a tinge on the test (api master freshwater)
Nitrates 25-30ish ppm

No, I did not deworm it. Do you just quarantine them and give them some kind of dewormer?
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MFK is forum/website. What was ur pH levels? How otter do u do water changes? How big of a tank an what kind of filtration?

And yes it is always recommend that u deworm and place in separate tank.


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mfk... duh i should've figured that one out
ph is a steady 7.8 i don't screw around with co2 or chemicals on this tank and it doesn't budge.
every five days, and I base the water change on how high the nitrates are. usually a 50% but sometimes a little more or less depending on feeding
75 gallon with a fluval 70 and a magnum 350. Picking up a biowheel 350 today to see if it helps at all since my rhino pleco is starting to act weird as well. Do they just make a deworming product? Or will it be under some weird name?
 
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