For several years now I keep having my platies get like a flat looking belly, as if they have not had any food, and then they die within a week or two.
You know how platies have the nice sort of round look to their bellies (when looking at them sideways). Well, mine all of a sudden look like a straight line from their mouth to their tails.
I have used all kinds of medicines: all the antibiotic stuff, external parasite med, internal parasite med. I have taken them to a couple fish stores and shown the staff how they look and no one has a clue of what is happening or going on.
I can get fish from privet shop, chain store shops, shipped from online fish suppliers, and no one specific place seems to be the cause of what ever it is.
I have tried brand new tanks, all new gravel, all new plants, all new everything and it still happens.
It is not an all the time kind of thing, I can go months or even a year, but then it suddenly shows up.
The fish do eat, I see the ones with the flat belly eat the food and they don't spit it back out.
They seem to act fine, up until about a day or two before they die and then they have the clamped fins and shimmy. (yes, I've used all the meds for shimmy and for any illness or such that would cause clamped fins)
Does anyone know what is happening? Why this happens?
I know it isn't only my fish, cause I have been in shops that their platies look that way too. (of course I do not buy from them, ever)
You know how platies have the nice sort of round look to their bellies (when looking at them sideways). Well, mine all of a sudden look like a straight line from their mouth to their tails.
I have used all kinds of medicines: all the antibiotic stuff, external parasite med, internal parasite med. I have taken them to a couple fish stores and shown the staff how they look and no one has a clue of what is happening or going on.
I can get fish from privet shop, chain store shops, shipped from online fish suppliers, and no one specific place seems to be the cause of what ever it is.
I have tried brand new tanks, all new gravel, all new plants, all new everything and it still happens.
It is not an all the time kind of thing, I can go months or even a year, but then it suddenly shows up.
The fish do eat, I see the ones with the flat belly eat the food and they don't spit it back out.
They seem to act fine, up until about a day or two before they die and then they have the clamped fins and shimmy. (yes, I've used all the meds for shimmy and for any illness or such that would cause clamped fins)
Does anyone know what is happening? Why this happens?
I know it isn't only my fish, cause I have been in shops that their platies look that way too. (of course I do not buy from them, ever)