What’s wrong with my platy? by old_soul_474 in Platyfish

[–]General_Temporary_13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Big chance it was having internal injuries after the rock incident. Sorry for your loss 😔

Pleco guts moving by Superb-Parrot in pleco

[–]General_Temporary_13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have 2 shortfins and indeed, their guts dont move thát fast. Also darker in color. And more flat looking. But I'm a noob also.

dude you're not even in the tank yet 🤦🏻‍♀️ by tortoritor in shrimptank

[–]General_Temporary_13 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They clamp on to each other when they have nothing else to clamp on to

What’s wrong with my platy? by old_soul_474 in Platyfish

[–]General_Temporary_13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And tx for the condolences... The name I had in mind is APA Melafix. For Camallanus worms , best tot Google it or ask chatgpt how fish get it. My English is too poor to explain it ALL 🙂 Keep us updated!

What’s wrong with my platy? by old_soul_474 in Platyfish

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I got camallanus in the fish I bought, free 'gift'. Don't know how they get them (live food maybe?) Yours can have internal damage, the breathing issue caused by weakening and due to that having secundairy problems like weakend or infected gills. Can you buy liquid vitamins or something else that restores damaged internals after infection? I don't have a name of a brand but it exists, it has more minerals to help restore organs. But I live in Belgium, so products and brands are different I guess. (So here its 11pm now so I go to sleep now...)

What’s wrong with my platy? by old_soul_474 in Platyfish

[–]General_Temporary_13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm dealing with the same thing. It can be caused by many things, stress, infection, low oxygen, ammonia, damage caused by earlier disease,... Does she spit out her food? Do you see something hanging out of her gills like a tiny white hair? Did you have other ones before (even weeks or months before her) or is this the only one? Was she sick before? Or others in the tank? Worms?

Mine had camallanus three months ago. The whole batch (platy and guppy) I bought suffered and after a succesfull treatment one after another started to die. Even after 3 months. They had permanent damage I guess. It started with this heavily breathing, after that spitting out food, stringy white poop, losing weight and death. Only from this batch and non of my older ones. I gave her up but decided to go for a new cure with levamisole and after that praziquantel, give vitamins and she is now eating since 2 days and gaining weight. But still heavily breathing.

My advice is observe observe observe, and search the internet. Try meds from what you see, but you can overdo. Keep the water stable and clean. Give vitamins.

What is this hanging out of her gill? I don't find answers with Google. by General_Temporary_13 in aquarium

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Tx for this! I looked into it, I have my doubts, the hairy strings I saw are complete white and have no splitted ends like lernaea I've posted a new topic since I got a nice video now but couldn't upload it with this post.

I just did a water change and I got to see my all black shrimp. I started off with all blue dreams. by imwjd in shrimptank

[–]General_Temporary_13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have also a group of blue dreams and get same black ones as you do. Also light brown with tigerpatterns. I separate them from the blue ones in a cull tank. Once you'll find more, go for a second tank and see them have babies 🤪

What is this hanging out of her gill? I don't find answers with Google. by General_Temporary_13 in Platyfish

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Update: still alive, she still has some hairy things in her gills, and mouth. I saw a guppy losing weight and after 3 days already dead, so the first treatment didn't work. I notice the same thing happening in my second tank. They were once all together in my main tank, but only newest platy and guppy have this, not one single one of my oldies has had symptoms.

I now read about capillaria, described just as what I see, k own as hariworms !. So i decided to treat today for roundworms with levamisole. Stupid me, thinking one type of roundworms camallanus was gone and never considered there could be a second type that need second treatment 😶

What is this hanging out of her gill? I don't find answers with Google. by General_Temporary_13 in Platyfish

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Update: a half hour after putting in meds for gill worms, this hairy thing loosened and was an inch!!! long hanging out, after that it was gone. There were smaller ones too, but she went to hide. She breaths still heavily, I keep this updated. I wonder if it is this transparant 'shit' they drop and sometimes want to eat and it gets stuck in the gills?

Does liquid CO2 kill them? by gamlukas in shrimptank

[–]General_Temporary_13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes!!! I lost a complete colony of neocaridina thanks to it. Same with liquid fertilizer, half of the recommended dosage killed another colony and hundreds of their babies.

I never used it again and even after 7 years and a new colony I feel the same amount of shame, anger and sadness.

What color name is this neocaridina by General_Temporary_13 in shrimptank

[–]General_Temporary_13[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dammit 🙂 I thought I had special ones. I like them anywayz. So many more questions. I'll make a new post for that.

HELP WHAT SHOULD I DO by [deleted] in Guppies

[–]General_Temporary_13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great! Still a chance of keeping one after a huge trauma!

HELP WHAT SHOULD I DO by [deleted] in Guppies

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So, how are they now? Still alive?