I recently bought two red wag platys from Petco (which I most likely will not be going to again due to the state of the fish- instead to a LFS thats a bit farther away) for my newly cycled tank (about 8 days since finished cycling). The fish were bought Saturday and acclimated greatly, and they showed no signs of illness or stress. They ate flakefood, blood worms, and even nipped at some algae wafers. Today I came home to discover one of the platys stuck onto the intake of the filter. I immediately check parameters (0 ammonia, 0 nitrites). The rest of the fish (2 Corys - i am getting more as soon as the LFS has some.- and 6 amano shrimp) were all happily in their own business, corys digging and amanos eating. The other platy was doing just fine showing no signs of stress. Upon further inspection, there seems to be a white patch of skin, which I thought to be ich, but the patch is too big and does not protrude. Is this common? Maybe the fish just didn't make it, but I need to be sure. My setup is an aquaclear 50, 29 gallon tank, and live plants. What do I do?
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