Dead albino pleco

[broodmetbeleg]

Hi, 

This morning I woke up to my albino pleco being dead. He seemed fine the night before, but I did notice that this morning, his nose had turned white (see picture). I immediately did a water change and added some general medicine for both fungi and bacteria as well as ich. Anything else I should do besides watch very closely? Does this look like fungi/bacteria or ich to you?

[TheSwissAquarist]

@Colu knows a lot about these kind of things. Sunburn?

[Colu]

It's difficult to tell as fish start to decay really quickly after death the color change could have happened after he died or it could be a sign of a bacterial infection such as columnaris @broodmetbeleg

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 10/20/2022 at 9:53 AM, broodmetbeleg said:

Hi, 

This morning I woke up to my albino pleco being dead. He seemed fine the night before, but I did notice that this morning, his nose had turned white (see picture). I immediately did a water change and added some general medicine for both fungi and bacteria as well as ich. Anything else I should do besides watch very closely? Does this look like fungi/bacteria or ich to you?

How long did you have him for?

[broodmetbeleg]

On 10/20/2022 at 7:23 PM, TheSwissAquarist said:

How long did you have him for?

Not long, about a week I think. I got a second hand aquarium and I got him and some endlers as a gift, he was about two years old, at least that's what the guy who sold me the aquarium told.