What's wrong with my peacock?

[bencansdale]

My peacock eel has was appears to be bites, little white spots around her body and some look like it has a fungus growing on the white spot, they look more like pale white spots rather than the bubble of ich. She is also swimming in a very sperratic motion, spinning like a drill bit while she swims and bumps and hits the bottom and glass sides, whats goin on with her? Sometime when she's on the bottom just laying there it seems like her body is stiff in an "S" shape?


Any ideas? Help is greatly appreciated.

 

[MonsterMinis]

prolly attack wounds that got infected. spiney eels are sensitive to water quality, so any minor cut or abraision can turn bad fast. hate to say it but if the eel is doing "death curls" it's likely not able to be saved.

Immediately seperateing it into a bare bottom QT tank with a peice of PVC pipe to hide in ( or anything sterile, and has no sharp edges to further aggrivate it's wounds)and treating it w/ a 1/2 dose of melafix may save it. But usually when they are that far gone there is little hope.

 

[bencansdale]

Yeah this has happened to my lesser spotted eel as well, my tire track blew up in size. I bought them all fairly the same size, about 3 inches, and the peacock hasn't grown and the tire track is about 5 or 6 inches. I'm setting up a grow tank for some of the smaller fish in the tank soon I might put her in there just so she's not with earl.

For the record, are "death curls" the "S" she gets stuck and lays in or is that the drill bit swim?

 

[MonsterMinis]

drill bit swimming and S shape they will get. they seem to go hand in hand. Keeping your Tire track with them will end up leaveing you with 1 eel.. your TT in the long-run. conspecific aggression in spiney eels is well documented by keepers, and unless the tank is large enough to give them all their space you usually end up with a dominant fish that will eventually kill-off it's spiney eel tank-mates. there are rare exceptions to this but generally the species are the same, and often time it's a group that is kept. Their behvaior ime/imo is very much like cichlids.

my TT was a good boy until he hit baout 12" then anything that fit in his mouth he ate, and he use to beat-up my bichir on a whim. I never trusted him w/ another spiney to begin with.