Pleco Stomach Rotten :(

Yes. It does look very much like ring worm. I noticed the spotsometime last week. Maybe Thursday. The substrate is basic river rock mixed with pea gravel and I have a lot of large rocks that I gathered from a creek bed.

As far as other residents I have a variety of cichlids including a yellow lab, an acei a giraffe, 2 jewels, 3 Malawi assorted, 3 fronts, and one other pleco.

Whe I get home I will get a flashlight and see if I can coax him to the glass again.
 
Could be aero/pseudomonas. Google aeromonas infection and see if that doesn't match what you're seeing.
 
It looks like a billet hole... not that I've seen many but I saw a dog that was shot with a bb gun and the hole looked similar. Can you see fresh flesh in the wound or healed flesh?
 
I don't think ringworm would result in a hole through the skin. Ringworm's telltale sign is a ring on the skin surface. I'm wondering if the pleco somehow started with a cut from something and bacterial infection set in. Bacterial infection will eat away at flesh and keep going. If there's any way possible to get a closer shot of that wound it would be very helpful. If it's the result of a bacterial infection, antibiotics would be necessary and very very soon.
 
Question to All:
Isn't the large opening, the VENT opening?

How about start feeding him food that eliminates parasites?
"Jungle-Internal Parasite Guard" +
"Jungle-PEPSO Food?"
 
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Sigrid said:
Question to All:
Isn't the large opening, the VENT opening?

How about start feeding him food that eliminates parasites?
"Jungle-Internal Parasite Guard" +
"Jungle-PEPSO Food?"
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No, it's not.
You can see the vent, it's the tiny white dot at the bottom of the two fins.
In the red circle I made.

Also, it looks to be a deep hole in the belly. If you save the picture to your PC and open it, there's a shadow that seems to suggest it's 3mm deep or so.

Hope your doing extra water changes to be on the safe side.
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With ulcers like that, they tend to get a thicker rim around the outside of the ulcer, thus giving this pleco the appearance of that extra mouth.
 
Dangerdoll said:
It looks like a billet hole... not that I've seen many but I saw a dog that was shot with a bb gun and the hole looked similar. Can you see fresh flesh in the wound or healed flesh?
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Yes it does look like a bullet hole wound and I have seen several. Does tend to get rowdy out here in LA from time to time.

You Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps looks healthy other then that hole. I also noticed in the pic that you can see a shadow indicating its kinda deep. Ide guess more like a quarter inch from the angle of the shot. Can be deeper though. More pics of the wound itself would help.
 
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