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I really hate to start another thread on these aquatic animals but here it is!
I recently changed their diets to blood worm only about a week ago give or take a day or two. I have three in a 2.5 gallon tank with a few shrimp and the others are looking fine. This guy is acting fine and eating, full of energy but the color in his skin is starting to go away mainly on his rear legs but there some spots on his back and arms too. It's not fuzzy or bulgy or anything. Just looks like the coloration is paling.
I started the new tank a few weeks ago and had a betta in it but the ammonia levels were high and the betta developed fin rot so I gave him to a friend.
I've been changing the water about twice a week at a 40% range. In the past two weeks I've been using prime as the conditioner and a few days ago a friend of mine gave me API quick start which I added and plan to add once a week or at least when I change the filter once a month. Everyone else is looking great, including the shrimp. Had a successful molt of an algae shrimp today and a ghost shrimp molt a few days ago.
The only thing I can think of is one of the males (not sure which one) got out of the cup I was using to acclimate them with and was found on the ground covered in dog hair and not looking very good around 3 weeks ago. Maybe this was him. Maybe it's like a burn from drying out and this is the scar OR maybe when I rinsed him off he may have gotten burned by the chlorine in the tap (Idr if I used tap, I was in a bit of a panic).
I don't think it's an infection due to the lack of redness, swelling, and not a fungus because their is no fuzzy growth or swelling. Just a paling of the skin. He looks and acts completely fine but this skin is worrying me!
Here's a couple of photos:
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I recently changed their diets to blood worm only about a week ago give or take a day or two. I have three in a 2.5 gallon tank with a few shrimp and the others are looking fine. This guy is acting fine and eating, full of energy but the color in his skin is starting to go away mainly on his rear legs but there some spots on his back and arms too. It's not fuzzy or bulgy or anything. Just looks like the coloration is paling.
I started the new tank a few weeks ago and had a betta in it but the ammonia levels were high and the betta developed fin rot so I gave him to a friend.
I've been changing the water about twice a week at a 40% range. In the past two weeks I've been using prime as the conditioner and a few days ago a friend of mine gave me API quick start which I added and plan to add once a week or at least when I change the filter once a month. Everyone else is looking great, including the shrimp. Had a successful molt of an algae shrimp today and a ghost shrimp molt a few days ago.
The only thing I can think of is one of the males (not sure which one) got out of the cup I was using to acclimate them with and was found on the ground covered in dog hair and not looking very good around 3 weeks ago. Maybe this was him. Maybe it's like a burn from drying out and this is the scar OR maybe when I rinsed him off he may have gotten burned by the chlorine in the tap (Idr if I used tap, I was in a bit of a panic).
I don't think it's an infection due to the lack of redness, swelling, and not a fungus because their is no fuzzy growth or swelling. Just a paling of the skin. He looks and acts completely fine but this skin is worrying me!
Here's a couple of photos:
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