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I just picked up a new red a couple of days ago.
He has been floating at the surface just minding his own buisness, today I see him at the fx5 exhaust as usual and notice him rub his cheek against the bit of pipe thts expsed.
Upon close inspection I see that there is some skin missing(a patch) behind his cheek on the lower half of his gill plate on his right side but the left seems off aswell but not as bad.
Now being that its new to the tank it is harder to diagnose a problem but do you guys have any thoughts or suggestions?
He was eating strictly mealworms at the lfs, can worms carry parisites?
Has not eaten in my care yet but all I have tried feeding was a couple of food sticks which I didnt expect him to take.
I acclimated the fish properly for 20min and then dumped him, and the mix of old and new water in. Could this have been the problem because thats what I did with the banjar and he was fine?
The tank temp is 82deg, I did a 40% waterchange the morning before bringing him home and am going to check my params right now.
Could it be a parisite or possibly ich although I dont see any signs of ich yet? Is there a general cure that I should treat with?
There is no other rough surface for him to rub on and for now I wrapped the exhaust with filter floss.
Params should be fine but will post results in a few.
He has been floating at the surface just minding his own buisness, today I see him at the fx5 exhaust as usual and notice him rub his cheek against the bit of pipe thts expsed.
Upon close inspection I see that there is some skin missing(a patch) behind his cheek on the lower half of his gill plate on his right side but the left seems off aswell but not as bad.
Now being that its new to the tank it is harder to diagnose a problem but do you guys have any thoughts or suggestions?
He was eating strictly mealworms at the lfs, can worms carry parisites?
Has not eaten in my care yet but all I have tried feeding was a couple of food sticks which I didnt expect him to take.
I acclimated the fish properly for 20min and then dumped him, and the mix of old and new water in. Could this have been the problem because thats what I did with the banjar and he was fine?
The tank temp is 82deg, I did a 40% waterchange the morning before bringing him home and am going to check my params right now.
Could it be a parisite or possibly ich although I dont see any signs of ich yet? Is there a general cure that I should treat with?
There is no other rough surface for him to rub on and for now I wrapped the exhaust with filter floss.
Params should be fine but will post results in a few.
