Help Please... Orange/Red Spot on Belly

GlockFu · Post by **GlockFu** » 22 Aug 2005, 22:51

It seems like I've been having so many problems with my tank lately ... Has anyone encountered this or know what it might be? I woke up this morning and found one of my zebras sucking on the front glass which is very rare and then I noticed a huge orange/red spot on his belly. I did feed them Hikari Sinking Carnivor pellets last night before I went to sleep. Could this have anything to do with it? I never feed live foods and haven't added any new fish for the past 10 months or so. Please give me any advice you can, I've never seen this before. Thanks...

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 22 Aug 2005, 23:25

if it happened in one night, might well be an injury!!
Any thing sharpe that could have done this?
What are the other tankmates?
Keep your water as clean as possible, avoid maximum water pollution...

cheers
Yann

GlockFu · Post by **GlockFu** » 22 Aug 2005, 23:57

Im not sure if it happened over night. I rarely get to see my zebra's bellys because they are usually hiding in rocks where I don't get a chance to. Although that doesn't rule out the possiblity that it did happen over night.

The only thing sort of sharp or rough would be the rocks but besides that, I dont think so.

The other tank mates are 4 adult zebras, 5 little baby ones and 2 cardinal tetras.

Has anyone seen heater burn on a Zebra Pleco? Would it look like this?

Graeme · Post by **Graeme** » 23 Aug 2005, 02:16

Looks like a heater burn.

Shape looks like he was sideways on.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 23 Aug 2005, 10:12

Graeme wrote:Looks like a heater burn.

Shape looks like he was sideways on.

That was my first thought too. If you look carefully, it looks there is a band sort of diagonally across the belly [almost vertical in the picture] that looks a bit lighter than the rest of the belly, going across the actual wound.

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Mats

bronzefry · Post by **bronzefry** » 23 Aug 2005, 14:54

Do you think something like this would work?
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/p ... 004+113521

GlockFu · Post by **GlockFu** » 23 Aug 2005, 20:56

Here are some pictures I took when I got home from work. It looks like the mark sort of "deflated". Yesterday morning it looked smooth with the rest of the body but now it looks a little like a soft blister? Is this consistent with how a burn would be?

Thanks for all of your input!

natefrog · Post by **natefrog** » 24 Aug 2005, 14:43

Definatley a heater burn. I personally would not medicate the fish at all until signs of infection or stress show Just make sure to keep the water quality up till its healed.