Madcrawdad
02-11-2007, 2:24 PM
A couple of weeks back I treated ich on a new clown loach. At the same time my heater crapped out and ran the tank up to 94 degrees.
While all of this was going on, I noticed that my clown pleco (a longtime resident) stopped eating, and pretty much stayed put under his piece of driftwood. This probably went on for a week and a half, and I was starting to get a little concerned. I assumed that the stress from the ich meds and the runaway heater had gotten to him and hopefully he would snap out of it...but he wasn't snapping out of it.
Turns out that when my heater malfunctioned, I dropped an airstone in the tank, and without thinking, placed the running airpump on top of the tank. Yesterday, I wondered if it might be vibration from the pump stressing out the pleco (none of the other fish were acting strangely). Unplugged the pump, and literally within 5 minutes the guy was out of his hiding spot and chowing on an algae disk.
Won't put an airpump on top of the tank again.
While all of this was going on, I noticed that my clown pleco (a longtime resident) stopped eating, and pretty much stayed put under his piece of driftwood. This probably went on for a week and a half, and I was starting to get a little concerned. I assumed that the stress from the ich meds and the runaway heater had gotten to him and hopefully he would snap out of it...but he wasn't snapping out of it.
Turns out that when my heater malfunctioned, I dropped an airstone in the tank, and without thinking, placed the running airpump on top of the tank. Yesterday, I wondered if it might be vibration from the pump stressing out the pleco (none of the other fish were acting strangely). Unplugged the pump, and literally within 5 minutes the guy was out of his hiding spot and chowing on an algae disk.
Won't put an airpump on top of the tank again.