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Hi Guy's, I noticed the other day that my Butterfly pleco L168 had sort of blood marks under the skin on his tail & 1 of his fins but today i've noticed that his scales seam a little raised but his eyes are bulging (popeye ?) I was wondering what the best cause of action to take to treat him will be. I'm giving the tank a makeover tomorrow so will take him out & put him in my QT tank as all my other fish are fine & doing very well
Water parameters
PH 7.2
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 5 ppm
Many thanks in advance
Neil

Extra info, The tank is 36x15x12 & has been running for a year & filtered by a fluval 206. Temp is 78f, 20% water changes are done every week, tank mates are lemon tetras, 2x 2" firemouths & a 1" covnict who is very calm & never bothers anyone (strange I know) tank is heavily planted with loads of bogwood with gravel substrate. I feed flake, frozen bloodworm, freeze dried tubifex, catfish pellets, algea waffers, cucumber. KH(mg/l) 45, GH(mg/l) 250. Sadly can't get a photo at the min as it's hiding in the bogwood. The L168 was the last fish added to the tank & had been living in the same water spec's for months before I got it off my friend

Admin please feel free to remove this thread as I sadly found the L168 dead when I stripped the tank to re-aquascape it & to put him into the hospital tank

ohhh sorry to hear he did not make it...

Cheers for that, i'm rather gutted as it's the most costly fish i've bought in years & I wasn't going to keep plec's any more after I lost my female BN due to old age & that the male had a real go at her so rehomed him. But i'll get another plec of some sort but 1 of the smaller type