DP Face going black
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:54 am
I've had my DPs coming on three years now. Feeding them tonight I noticed a huge dark splotch on the female's face; her eye on that side is a little sunken in. I also noticed her belly is a bit sunken, but she was having trouble eating so I don't know if she's beginning to starve. She'd go to eat a bloodworm and promptly spit it back up. I tried taking her out of the tank and feeding her a snail to see if it was a tooth problem, but she wasn't interested.
On Thurs we did have guys in installing new windows for 7ish hours, so lots of noise in my room and mastik/filler. I'm wondering if that has something to with it, as I'd not noticed it before today. The only other thing I can think is a fungus, so for now I've dosed the tank with the pimafix.
Parameters are ammonia 0ppm, nitrites 0ppm, nitrates 0ppm, ph 7.2 and temp at 26C. Did a water change last night. The tank itself is 40L, live planted and filtered with a mix of ceramic and a marina bio-carb cartridge. There are two other puffers in the tank.
Apologies for the blurry images. https://imgur.com/DL1O1Xphttps://imgur.com/ZFg0262https://imgur.com/qAu2hgh
On Thurs we did have guys in installing new windows for 7ish hours, so lots of noise in my room and mastik/filler. I'm wondering if that has something to with it, as I'd not noticed it before today. The only other thing I can think is a fungus, so for now I've dosed the tank with the pimafix.
Parameters are ammonia 0ppm, nitrites 0ppm, nitrates 0ppm, ph 7.2 and temp at 26C. Did a water change last night. The tank itself is 40L, live planted and filtered with a mix of ceramic and a marina bio-carb cartridge. There are two other puffers in the tank.
Apologies for the blurry images. https://imgur.com/DL1O1Xphttps://imgur.com/ZFg0262https://imgur.com/qAu2hgh