Hi Des, thanks for the advices and detailed information of the use of Metronidazole. Regards, Peter

Hi Des and Chris, thanks for your advices. As my pleco always has no appetite, so drug feeding method is not applicable in him. Hi Des, regarding the treatment using Metronidazole bathing method effective for the treatment of the internal flagellated disease in your Discus you mentioned, would you ...

My most lovely and biggest pleco seems suffering from internal flagellated parasitic disease. This disease has been with him for 9 months since he was introduced to my tank. The symptoms are no appetite and white excrements. Below are some photos of its excrements: http://tinypic.com/5ckqz7 http ...

As per my experience, nearly all plecos are sensitive to copper. If the copper level in a tank of fresh water is around 0.10mg/L, plecos will immediately perform strange and look stressed; if the copper level is higher than 0.2mg/L, some plecos will get dead in 24 hours especially Ancistrus typed ...

This was really the case as Janne described. Now the pleco is recovering in a hospital tank where the water in it is fresh water, no additives.

Thanks!

Many Thanks! Now I am asking the aquarist about the salinity of his tank water.

Attached is a photo of a pleco posted by an aquarist in a Chinese fish forum seeking curing advices. As per the photo, the spine of this pleco has swollen up, and there are many large transparent tumors on the spine. As mentioned by the aquarist, i) the belly of this pleco is normal (no swelling ...

found sum pic's this was my fisrt catch in the Rio Xingu, i think it's the same as plecolover's fish Kev Hi Kev, it is too amazing. You were in Rio Xingu catching the amazing plecos! When did you take these photos? How about the situations of Rio Xingu? Very wild and natural? any pollutions? Were ...

Jools wrote:L176 for my money. I'll be posted some pics of these soon (fresh out of the Xingu).
Jools

Thanks! Looking for the photos! These will be great as references for verifying it

Thanks. Here two photos are the photos of its tail: http://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=231qqa http://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=231qtt For your more information, here is another photo of the L258 which I posted its photo in my last reply: http://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=231qwp . It's body colour is ...

I bought it under L258, but ... seems that it is not. Before I bought it, I had already had a L258. Here is a photo of him: http://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=231glf They are totally different in body colour and spot colour. I also have small and middle sized L31. Here is a photo of one of my small ...

This huge Parancistrus has been in my home for 4 months, but still not quite sure its L-Number. As per the information from the aquarium shop where I acquired it, it is L258; as per the information from advance hobbyists, it is L31, but as per my experience, it is neither L258 nor L31. Any advices ...

Whatever shy or not, all will become very crazy at dinning time!!!!

http://www.plecofanatics.com/gallery/di ... =13&pos=14

Today is the fifth day of the treatment. All white spots seems gone. One died of the disease. He is my lovely L148 namely BigMouthBoy :cry: Waterlife Protozin is really a good and reliable medicine for curing external parasite disease of plecos. Thanks for the information provided by the experts ...

In Hongkong, some LFS are still importing Zebra plecos, but the unit price is quite high, US$110 in average. Furthermore, also found F1 Zebra plecos in market. The unit price is less expensive, US$81. As per the information from an aquarium fish distributor, Zebra plecos are not available due to ...

I think the age and the price are not quite important. The key is you feel satisfied with them!!!!

Hi Patrick, Hikari Algae Wafer is a well formulated and balanced food dedicatedly for plecos. My Zebras like the wafer much. In addition, it is very stable in water causing less pollution to water quality. Below is a link you can find more information about Hikari Algae Wafer. http://www.hikariusa ...

Yes, Pleco_breeder, I faced what you mentioned three years ago. At the most beginning, I always fed my Zebras and L56 with bloodworm, and they seemed very happy and healthy. After a period of one month, they suddenly died with a large belly. I consulted many experts about this. Now I only feed my ...

Hi Squid, I got a friend whose pleco suffered from bacteria disease, symptom was skin ulcer. He carried out antibiotic treatment on pleco for 14 days. Now the ulcer apart appears not in red colour, and he is maintaining a good environment for his pleco to recover. I think you should extend the ...

Hey Barbie, you are man and a moderator, don't need to over-react to some sharing messages here unless the intentions of the messages are bad. Otherwise, this seems not a forum, is your personal forum. I would like to share with you that prolonged meat feeding on plecos will create digestion problem ...

Hi jurassic, your lovely pleco seems suffering from external bacteria disease, so the wound appears a bit red in colour. Try to maintain the water quality well and cure the disease using broad spectrum antibiotic or some market available medicines (Sera Baktopur). I got success of curing my plecos ...

Hi Patrick, unlike the other loricariids, H. Zebra is more of a carnivore than an algae eater. They like meaty food. Say, blood worm and brine shrimps. For more information, please refer to the following web site:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/lo ... /168_f.php

Hi, Zebra are great plecos. I also have two, one is male, one is female. As known, the digestion systems of plecos cannot tolerate meat typed food well, so I only feed them with high fiber composed food such as TetraMin or Hikari Algae Wafer. They seem very happy and healthy with these!!!!

Hi Kostas, I faced the similar cases three years ago as that of yours. The plecos died with big belly. Finally, I found that these were caused by the food (redworms, shrimps) I fed them. As per the information provided by some books and documents, digestion systems of plecos only adapt high fiber ...

I have used both Hikari and JBL. I found my plecos like both, but Hikari is more stable in water. I recommend Hikari

As per your description, all water parameters were OK. I think your plecos might be dead of 1) digestion problem. What food did you feed it and how frequent??? 2) suffocation caused by fungus disease. Fungus might develop on the gill of your lovely fish making it dead. This commonly happens when the ...

Many thanks for the information again. I will start the treatment with Protozin with half dosage first, and update you the results few days later!!!!

Actually, my plecos were suffering from both ICH and Oodinium last time. Now they re-occured again. I will maintained the water temperature at 30 degree celsius for a more long period of 14 days and dose Waterlife Protozin to get rid of them. I just wonder if I dose full dosage of Protozin, the ...

Many thanks for the information first.

I got one bottle of Waterlife Protozin. As per its instruction sheet, it recommends to adminstrate the dosage to half for scaleless fishes. So should I administrate the dosage to half for plecos???

This is the second time the white spot disease happened again within this year. In the last incident, I use copper sulphate (Sera Oodinium) to cure the disease. Finally, got 20 lovely plecos dead, some of them dead of the whtie spots, some of them dead of the medicine :cry: As per some documents ...