Epileptic Plecs?

[Chris Allan]

Well, I went over to my mum's house tonight to do her weekly water change for her. She has two Yogi Plecs (AKA Guimares Silver Pleco) both of which are about 4 inches long and very active aways coming out for food etc. Anyway, before doing the water change, made sure everything was in order with fish, water parameters, temp etc. It was in order, except for the 2 plecs, they were both having, what looked like fits. I already had water prepared and at the right temperature, so I carried out the water change. I turned the lights off to make it a bit more calmer for them, but it didn't seem to make much difference. An hour or so after the water change, I added a dose of Esha 2000 in case there was some sort of bacterial infection or something. Her rainbows, cories and apistogrammas seemed fine, no sign of anything unusual.

Has anyone got any ideas? I've asked her to keep an eye on them, but it's got me stumped. There's not a lot of info on Planet Catfish about these plecs, and I know they are fairly new find, about a year ago I think.

Anyone else had any experience with them, or similar behaviour in other fish?

Cheers for any info.

Chris

 

[bunjiweb]

ive seen plecs do this before, it seems to be some kind of displaying behaviour, although i am not totally sure.

Ben

 

[Chris Allan]

Hmmm, not sure about this. You could touch them and they just carried on "fitting". They oblivious as to what was going on around them. One ended up upside-down, so I put him the right side up next to some bog wood, made no attempt to swim off or hide or anything really, just kept twitching in my hand. Mum say's they seem to be OK now, but she will keep an eye on them.

Chris

 

[bunjiweb]

Thats interesting. Well if they have been tank bred there is the possibilty that they have developed a gentic disorder if they were inbred. However other than this i am not sure what it could be.

Ben