Bruce Leyland-Jones
Fish Aficionado
W.T.F!Oh my ever loving god I want to vomit
W.T.F!Oh my ever loving god I want to vomit
Now I've calmed down a tad, was this critter formally identified?W.T.F!
We got it figured out though:I asked on PlanetCatFish but no accurate answer....
It turned out to be normal spikes on a plec which were infected with something that turned them white and fuzzy.
Never. There's no way they were BN spikes.It turned out to be normal spikes on a plec which were infected with something that turned them white and fuzzy.
Excuse me but "something" doesn't allow us to know what this "thing".
If the Pleco is OK and recovering well, does it really matter?Never. There's no way they were BN spikes.
Yes it matters !!If the Pleco is OK and recovering well, does it really matter?
When it opens the bristlenose seems to flinch in pain. I think everytime it opens it causes pain like a sore. poor little guyOh for f*#% sake, why didn’t I think of this? ?
on the 4th pic there seems to be redness around it. That could mean that whatever it is is eating away at the bn sadly. Im no expert but ive seen the way things like this go.Hi guys, people were asking for more pictures so I have got some. I’ve only seen the one on his left gill open up but as you can see there is now one on each gill, and potentially two more towards his tail.
Whilst I appreciate suggestions about manually removing it, I really don’t think I could manage to do something so gentle and intricate, also, I haven’t actually seen it “open up” for the last 24 hours or so...
New pictures attached...
The thing is... The movement may be the same but the "tentacles" seem thicker and they are a pinkish color with white tips. It looks like a separate living organism to me.Watch the initial video, now watch this
Looks exactly the same to me. Only in the case they are infected odontodes and the pleco flaring them in annoyance/pain... Exact same placement, exact same shape. Exact same flaring, I don't see any mysterious tentacle creature
Oh ok. Good. I never was able to get to the end. I was following the story like it just started lolI thought it had been established earlier in this thread that this was normal plec cheek odontodes that were infected with a fungus or bacteria and the fish was flaring them out either in annoyance or pain. Whatever the infection was, the OP reported he treated the fish and the infection went away and the plec is now 'normal' again.
I don't think it was ever established what the infection was. Looking back through the thread, the OP reported trying several treatments. Phenoxyethanol did nothing. Salt helped a bit. Waterlife Protozin did help but the plec reacted to the med. Further meds were suggested to him but he doesn't say if he used them. But the fish is fine now.