MaGiC
03-01-2007, 02:36 PM
Hi all....
About a month ago I bought a Cobalt Blue. I saw it scratching lightly now and then on the heater . This fish was in a Qt tank for a month and treated with a praziquantel product. Everything went ok. No more scratching. I introduced it in a 200 lit talk with a PB female , a PB male and a Heckel. The first 2 days it was frightened but after the 3rd day it started eating with the others and on day 5 I saw this fish doing the dance thing with the PB male and cleaning the glass. I thought this was a female and I was correct. A day later I saw her laying eggs. The Heckel ate all the eggs. The next day this female was very nervous , moving fast , damaging her self on the cone on the glasses on the heater. The other 3 were so frightened. She ended with some damage on the body and operculums. For a while she stays in the corner and later she starts again damaging her self and sometimes she swims in rounds like she has no balance.
My water parameters are fine , doing 30% WC every day and temp is set at 29 d. Celsius. I haven’t seen the others scratching and their behavior is normal.
I haven’t seen something like that before. Might be body or skin flukes? Might be something else?
I have removed her in the QT tank again and started treating the wounds.
Any suggestions?
About a month ago I bought a Cobalt Blue. I saw it scratching lightly now and then on the heater . This fish was in a Qt tank for a month and treated with a praziquantel product. Everything went ok. No more scratching. I introduced it in a 200 lit talk with a PB female , a PB male and a Heckel. The first 2 days it was frightened but after the 3rd day it started eating with the others and on day 5 I saw this fish doing the dance thing with the PB male and cleaning the glass. I thought this was a female and I was correct. A day later I saw her laying eggs. The Heckel ate all the eggs. The next day this female was very nervous , moving fast , damaging her self on the cone on the glasses on the heater. The other 3 were so frightened. She ended with some damage on the body and operculums. For a while she stays in the corner and later she starts again damaging her self and sometimes she swims in rounds like she has no balance.
My water parameters are fine , doing 30% WC every day and temp is set at 29 d. Celsius. I haven’t seen the others scratching and their behavior is normal.
I haven’t seen something like that before. Might be body or skin flukes? Might be something else?
I have removed her in the QT tank again and started treating the wounds.
Any suggestions?