breakaway Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Just added 4 of these guys to my puffer tank. I've just noticed that one of them has some white stuff on his body / head (see photos below). Keep in mind that it doesn't seem like this is a fuzzy kind of thing - it seems like his original coloring has been 'scratched off' his body. Is this something to be worried about? Photos: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 How smooth is your substrate, could be too sharp for the wee things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breakaway Posted April 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 You can see the substrate pretty well in this photo. And its only one of them that has this. Also I've never seen any of these guys digging. They prefer to hang in the driftwood / hairgrass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Maybe he got stuck somewhere - any small gaps in the driftwood where it could get stuck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breakaway Posted April 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Possibly - Also seen one of the puffers have a go at him once since I added him. I'm not particularly concerned if its just an injury. As long as this isn't an illness I'm happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Definitely just looks like scratches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikBok Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Scratched. mine looked like that after he took a journey through the pipe and filter!.. three times! - I just dosed the water with stress coat to aid healing and he was fine. (and I bought a different intake) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breakaway Posted April 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 My loaches are now doing great However I hadn't seen all 4 of them in the tank at the same time in a while, so I opened up my Fluval 205 and there he was. How does a fish this long make it past the impeller without jamming? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N1CK Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 the impeller is on the way out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikBok Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 My loaches are now doing great However I hadn't seen all 4 of them in the tank at the same time in a while, so I opened up my Fluval 205 and there he was. How does a fish this long make it past the impeller without jamming? like I said.. mine did that 3 times! The third time I thought he was a gonna.. was motionless in the filter (which is a trickle filter) and he was on very shallow amount of water on top of the cartridge and was not only scratched but looked like he was bleeding internally and his fins were red. When I went to scoop him out he wiggled and leaped back into he tank and lay there for an hour before hiding under driftwood. He is great now. I then I bought a shorter intake pipe so he wasn't so tempted to swim into it and he's not been up since.. the other kuhli had more sense and stayed out of trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breakaway Posted April 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 My loach was fine, thanks to the canister filter. I took out the sponge cartridge, nothing. Then took out the media baskets, nothing. Put it all back together, and checked the bucket where I had stored the cartridge / sponge, ant there he was! The loach that made its way into the filter was younger (therefore thinner) so he could fit through the strainer! Hopefully when he grows he will have more sense / be too big to fit through there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 the impeller is on the way out i had one that must have swum thru the wrong way as he was way too fat to get through the strainer . they told me a redwood aquatics there is always heaps of them swimming around the pipework out the back they are crazy little fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikBok Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 i had one that must have swum thru the wrong way as he was way too fat to get through the strainer . they told me a redwood aquatics there is always heaps of them swimming around the pipework out the back they are crazy little fish crazy and cool little fish - i love them! here's mine , the first time he went up the filter: (that's bok) and another one (Bik) when he/she was younger. Much fatter and bigger now, I'll have to get an update next time he/she is out dancing. and Bak: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HBLiquidPulse Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 These are really cool fish. Iv'e thought about getting some for a while now. What do they tend to go well with? / what have you guys kept them with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottie841 Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 My last surviving one (brown not striped) is in the community tank with fighters, tetras, silver sharks, an angle and plenty of plecos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikBok Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 mine are in with guppys, platy , female fighter. had a bristlenose in with them for a while but he harrased the kuhli and wouldn't let them eat. After rehoming the BN , we've seen the kuhli out in the open a lot more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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