My curvicept is not looking well. He's been sick for a week now and I am not sure what is going on. I have used Melafix for the allotted 7 days and tonight I do the water change.
Curvi is fairly still and his fins are clamped. He will come out and act normal to eat, but otherwise he spends about 90% of the remaining time sitting on the floor of the tank in one of 3 spots has deemed appropriate for this situation. 2 are very hidden, and this one I caught him at is out in the open.
He has a red area below his gill plate that appears to only be on one side. There does not appear to be anything on his gills themselves. His fins are fine. He does not have any ich. I put in 2 new Von Rios about 2 weeks before he stared acting like this. Those fish appear very healthy so if they brought it in, they are just the ones passing it on and not suffering the disease itself.
Here is a picture of him- My camera has a very hard time with close up pictures and I have no idea why. I am fairly certain that the red is just because that is where his fin meets his body, but it seems more red than usual. I don't stare at him much in that way so it could just be totally normal.
He is only a little clamped in these pics. He has been much more clamped at times. Also he never sits still and now he has been sitting still long enough for me to take 14 pictures.
Any idea on what it could be and if so the best treatment? I do have a little bit of Aquarisol but I only want to use that if it's going to work, because of how little I have left.
Curvi is fairly still and his fins are clamped. He will come out and act normal to eat, but otherwise he spends about 90% of the remaining time sitting on the floor of the tank in one of 3 spots has deemed appropriate for this situation. 2 are very hidden, and this one I caught him at is out in the open.
He has a red area below his gill plate that appears to only be on one side. There does not appear to be anything on his gills themselves. His fins are fine. He does not have any ich. I put in 2 new Von Rios about 2 weeks before he stared acting like this. Those fish appear very healthy so if they brought it in, they are just the ones passing it on and not suffering the disease itself.
Here is a picture of him- My camera has a very hard time with close up pictures and I have no idea why. I am fairly certain that the red is just because that is where his fin meets his body, but it seems more red than usual. I don't stare at him much in that way so it could just be totally normal.
He is only a little clamped in these pics. He has been much more clamped at times. Also he never sits still and now he has been sitting still long enough for me to take 14 pictures.
Any idea on what it could be and if so the best treatment? I do have a little bit of Aquarisol but I only want to use that if it's going to work, because of how little I have left.