Hello all,
Great forum! we've recently joined up and this is our first post. We're hoping to give advice here as well as receive it, but for now, we'd like to ask a question about our catfish.
It's an upside-down catfish, and we've had him for about 3 years. He's recently developed a white/silver-ish blemish on his side (see photo). It doesn't look like an open sore, but we're dumbfounded as to what it could be. We have tried adding melafix for the 7 days & then doing a water change but it is not helping. He does hang around the water heater and we wonder if it was a burn, but there is no wound as such, just a large silver/white-ish patch. He is behaving normally and the other fish are not showing any signs of the same thing!!
We have a 40 litre tropical fish tank containg the following other fish - 1 blue gourami, 3 molly's, 7 neon's, 1 bulldog plecco, 1 common loach, 2 pakistani loaches. We have had high nitrate issues, we regularly change the water (every 10 days and change 25% of water), we have reduced feeding and added a nitra-zorb so the nitrate levels are coming down. The plants are healthy (apart from the snails, hence the loaches).
We look forward to any help and advice you can give...
Great forum! we've recently joined up and this is our first post. We're hoping to give advice here as well as receive it, but for now, we'd like to ask a question about our catfish.
It's an upside-down catfish, and we've had him for about 3 years. He's recently developed a white/silver-ish blemish on his side (see photo). It doesn't look like an open sore, but we're dumbfounded as to what it could be. We have tried adding melafix for the 7 days & then doing a water change but it is not helping. He does hang around the water heater and we wonder if it was a burn, but there is no wound as such, just a large silver/white-ish patch. He is behaving normally and the other fish are not showing any signs of the same thing!!
We have a 40 litre tropical fish tank containg the following other fish - 1 blue gourami, 3 molly's, 7 neon's, 1 bulldog plecco, 1 common loach, 2 pakistani loaches. We have had high nitrate issues, we regularly change the water (every 10 days and change 25% of water), we have reduced feeding and added a nitra-zorb so the nitrate levels are coming down. The plants are healthy (apart from the snails, hence the loaches).
We look forward to any help and advice you can give...
