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• Jan 17, 2007

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i noticed this on him today anyone know what it is?
please help so i can take care of it as soon as possible

im talking about the little white flakes on him by the way

 

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• Jan 18, 2007

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It's not clear. Does it look like grains of salt? If so, it could be ich.

 

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• Jan 18, 2007

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Can't make the pic out to well it's blury, but it doesn't look like whitespot in the pic.
Can you describe it.

 

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• Jan 18, 2007

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they look somewhat like dandruff like flakes or that he has dry skin and its somewhat peeling or something.

Edit: i forgot to mention; i think i saw a few of the flakes come off when he swam hard.

 

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• Jan 19, 2007

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They can peel with bacterial and parasites.
Flukes can cause them to peel, more inclined for some reason to say parasite.
Is there any flicking and rubbing going off.
I think for now I would go in with some methylene blue.

 

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• Jan 19, 2007

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Is that a little clown pleco? Bear in mind they have spikes all over their body. I take it the flakes are different from the spikes? Hard to tell from photo.

Here is a pic of my clown plec with his spikes.

 

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• Jan 20, 2007

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ill be posting a more clear picture as soon as i can

Im not sure what kind of pleco it is, it was sold to me as a yellow zebra pleco, but i dont think it is, i was supposed to post an id post on the plec section but i never got the chance before this popped up.

 

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• Jan 20, 2007

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from the picture it looks like a VERY bad case of whitespot...

Get the piccy up ASAP or make your own descision as you need to treat now - or it will die.

Dont mean to be dramatic but from the piccy it looks like it might be to far gone all ready.