Injured Female L183

[jorgehdzy]

Hi,

Im hoping to get some help in how to treat this injury in one of my female L183's (Ancistrus Dolichopterus).

My water parameters are as follows:

Temperature 81°
Ph 8.2
Ammonia 0 ppm
Nitrites 0 ppm
Nitrates 5.0 ppm

I dont know how did she got injured but I did notice a bit of aggression between this female and another one that live in the same tank with the male. I hadn't notice the injury until a few days ago while doing water changes. I have been treating the tank since then with API "triple sulfa" for the past 6 days and the injury has gotten extremely swollen and red instead of getting better. Im wondering if I should take another approach instead. I'm worried because it seems that she's in pain and I hate to see her suffer like that.

Im attaching a series of pictures to show progression of the injury since I started the treatment from the beginning.

Any thoughts in how to treat her would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

[jorgehdzy]

I forgot to add the tank set up in my previous post.

Tank size is a 20 gallon long, filtration is a hang in the back aqua clear 70, substrate is regular aquarium gravel (tan in color), tank mates are one more female and a male L183. In addition, about 50-70 cherry red shrimp live in the tank, lots of driftwood and several caves in the tank. Thank has been running for over a year and a half. The fish have lived there for about 9 months now. Water changes of about 30-40% are done weekly.

[lilu]

When my young Ancistrus developed a lesion Barbie suggested I swab the area with iodine:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =5&t=39609

For the first week after the treatment I didn't notice a difference other than it wasn't getting worse but then 'he' started healing at a very rate and within the next week all signs of the lesion were gone and haven't come back.

Good luck!