Hello all
There is a neat hole at the belly of my baby mbu . it's been there for a month. The mbu is about 4 inches
It looks liken someone removed a piece of the white belly and the pink flesh beneath is showing. zero nitrites and nitrates constantly below 10ppm.
The fish is healthy otherwise and shows good activity and hunts actively.
I had suspected that a crayfish had pinched this hole out of his belly ( seen a few times on my puffers... Crayfish death fight) but I have no proof either
Started melafix 4 days ago. Not much signs of improvement so far
Any inputs appreciated !
Red "hole" / ulcer on belly of baby mbu
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3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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Re: Red "hole" / ulcer on belly of baby mbu
Also try to put some aloe vera on the tank (1 15 cm leave per each 60Gala
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Re: Red "hole" / ulcer on belly of baby mbu
Highly unlikely for the Cray to pinch a hole. As their skin are rubbery, they will leave 2 very small "dots" instead but not so much to puncture or do any real damage. Prior to the open hole, did U notice anything else there? I am worried it could be something more sinister.. I had a very bad experience once.
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Re: Red "hole" / ulcer on belly of baby mbu
RVS, thank you for the advise.
Scpion, nothing prior.. he has always been very active and eats well.
What was your bad experience ? what was your finding from that ?
Scpion, nothing prior.. he has always been very active and eats well.
What was your bad experience ? what was your finding from that ?
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Re: Red "hole" / ulcer on belly of baby mbu
Any ammonia? Anything sharp in the tank? Have you noticed him sleeping anyplace odd, like a heater?
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Re: Red "hole" / ulcer on belly of baby mbu
This was what happened to mine.. though it seems quite extreme.. Happened over just a couple of days. But yours doesnt sound like it..
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