Pleco twitching?

[Chuck_T]

yes i have had this pleco for about 2 yeard now and this morning i turned on the light and he was twitching and movin pretty slow ,i just got home from work and he's still twitching like every couple seconds any ideas? (testing water now)

[Chuck_T]

ph 6 nitrate 0 nitrite 0 ammo 1, i was having triouble before gettin my nitrates and ammo down nitrates were about 20+,ammo was 1, then i switched one of the sponges in my filter,left the other one and also put a new carbon pack in the other did i sc

[jm1212]

the ammonia is probably effecting him. keep doing 50% water changes until the ammoina is under 0.25

[Chuck_T]

will do,i keep reading parasites but i havnt added any new fish for awhile now so i donno how'd he'd get it?

[Chuck_T]

i've got the ammo down but now he is swimming pretty slowly, around looks pretty stiff and is swimming into the filter intake and other things.all other fish seem normal

[Chuck_T]

ok i have been doing water changes like crazy gettin this ammonia down i got a insert for my filter that takes out ammonia ,and i finally have a pic of the red/bloody looking tail on my pleco. i feel bad after lookin at this pic but i havne no clue how my ammo got so high,maybe becaus ei got rid of my 2 big balas and i kept feeding normally so their share would be wastered? heres the pic pretty nasty

[JamieB]

WoW That is nasty,I hope it's alright. Not a specialist but that might be a burn from heater?

[wataugachicken]

that just looks sooooooooo bad. other than lots of water changes to remove all ammonia, i don't know what to say about that. possibly bacterial infection/hemorrhagic septicimia?