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Loving the 3D background nice scrape
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Sorry to hear your still losing Otto's I would consider doing a course of NALADIN as a last ditch effort at this point what have you got to lose
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You could add a small amount of aquarium salt 1 table spoon for 5 gallons that will aid Gill function and add essential electrolytes
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Just looks like colour change they do it when stresses or trying to camouflage themselves
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What are your water parameters is he eating ok it's difficult to tell of your pictures is it's raised the area
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Could be a prolapse looking at were it's located the best treatment for a prolapse is Epsom salt baths 1 table spoon for 1 gallon for no more than 15 minutes 2-3 time's a day as Epsom salt acts as a muscle relaxants to help your fish reabsorb the prolapse or it could be a fluid filled cyst Epsom salt will also help to reduce the fluid buildup
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You can use seachems garlic guard or entice you don't use them both together you can get jungal fungas clear fizz tabs containing nitrofurazone from Walmart if you have local one or nitrofurazone powder off aquabid i would use pellets or frozen foods when making the medicated food
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What I would do is a water change to remove the medication straight away and monitor them for a couple of days if they go back to normal then you could try treating one medication at a time as medication can be stressful of fish after going through shipping and stress. To be exposed to 3 different medication at once can push some fish over the edge
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It should be fine as long as the water parameters are similar and not drastically different from what their in at the moment
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Possible juvenile head and til light tetra hemigrammus ocellifer
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I treat with a combination of maracyn and ick x that will treat fungal and ich I would add maracyn to food it's more effective he's how I dose maracyn in food I use 1 quarter of a packet of maracyn one table spoon of pellets one scoop of seachems focus 1 cap of garlic guard a few drops of water mix well feed a small amount twice daily store any leftover medicated food in the fridge
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I would say bacterial infection it could have a secondary fungal infection what I would do is treat with a combination of kanaplex in food and jungal fungas clear fizz tabs containing nitrofurazone together that extremely effective treatment for severe bacterial infections and secondary fungal infections as he not looking good melafix is just a mild antiseptic treatment I wouldn't use treat anything more serious
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Pleco have stunning colours come in sizes from 1in to 2ft so their something for everyone one and have great personality I have been keeping and breed them for 20 years it plecos over shrimp every time for me
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I use a fluval 307 external canister filter and a ziss 300F bubble filter on my tank and that has one 12 in comet in it and it works well never get ammonia or nitrites and the water stays clear
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You can use maracyn ick x paracleanse sera baktopur direct tables active ingredient is nifurpirinol a broad spectrum antibiotic
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You could start dosing some of the co-op easy carbon to help reduce your algae
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Theirs a couple of things it could be a damage swim bladder or a bacterial infection Epsom salt baths 1 table spoon for 2 gallons for no more than 15 minutes will help with swim bladder as Epsom salt acts as a muscle relaxants to relieve pressure on the swim bladder i what I would do is Qarantine and treat with Epsom salt baths and kanaplex to cover against possible bacterial infection
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When Popeye effect's one it usually caused by an injury if it's in both eyes it's usually caused by a bacterial infections bought on by poor water quality I would assume your based in Australia if so keep treating with blue planet multi cure and add a small amount of aquarium salt 1 table spoon for 3 gallons that will help reduce some of the swelling that can be caused by fluid buildup behind the eye if you can get holed of seachems kanaplex I treat with that and Aquarium salt
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If your planing of leaving the eggs in the with adults and hopeing to get some fry I think the shrimp and snails would eat the eggs if your using a spawning mop and removing it to another tank I think that would work
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You need to add some more plant cover like guppy grass hornwort or some floating plants for the fry to hide in or you could put pregnant female in a breeder box and remove her once see gives birth
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Feed a variety of foods cucumber zucchini hikari carnivore pellets algae wafers blood worms shrimp prawns and occasionally feed some shelled crustaceans
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Ich are flat white spots not raised looks possible like the start of fin rot
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I use a bucket remake To make the solutions and replace it each time so it's temperature match so it's no going to shock the fish
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Sparkling gourami's gourami's are good center piece fish for smaller tanks you can keep them in small groups
