Damaged Zeb

[Jo Crane]

Found this morning very badly bitten zeb.
I have began treating her and will keep a record of exactly what I do then IF successful it might help someone else in the future although I am not hopeful

 

[D-MAC]

Hi Jo
I have found that the fix it twins(Mela/Pima) work very well on this type of damage...I have pulled back many a pleco using this...Good luck with its recovery.

 

[AndyEllard]

One of my zebs was attacked just the same as that a while ago.
I used Primafix & Melafix along with daily water changes and it made a full recovery. :thumbup:

 

[scatz]

looks nasty, and she looks full of eggs to which is how she ended up in this state i guess.
I'm sure she'll be fine soon enough, lots of water changes and as the others have said, mela/pimafix should have her popping eggs in no time.

 

[JackGillett]

Hope she gets better Jo. Melafix and primafix are the best solution :thumbup: keepus updated. Was it an aggressive trapping or fighting?

 

[bigbird]

all the best and hope she makes it. cheers jk :thumbup:

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
Does look bad. I've had damage to a few cichlids where I've used "Adcortyl in Orabase", it is a human mouth ulcer treatment, but a lot of carp fisherman/Koi carp keepers use it on hook damage, scrape marks etc. It is water-proof and it may protect the wound for long enough for healing to start. It worked absolutely brilliantly when I used it.

Unfortunately the company making it (Bristol Mayer Squib) have dis-continued it for "commercial reasons", and I'm now thinking of ordering some "Kenacort in Orabase" via the WWW from New Zealand, which is apparently exactly the same.

cheers Darrel

 

[ccole]

Hey hope the combination works-keep us up to date. Cole

 

[JackGillett]

Hows she doing Jo?

 

[Jo Crane]

Still alive, still stressed breathing fast, all the fluff / skin has gone so it looks cleaner now

 

[OwNz]

hope she pulls threw mate souns good if they skin better on her

 

[JackGillett]

Good stuff, hope she gets through it, was it an aggressive trapping? maybe that male needs to be removed?

 

[Brengun]

It can happen in most any pleco species. I have had it on peckoltia L278, L134 comptas and L260. In the comptas case the entire fin of the tail was gone! I just kept the water clean and used Waterlifes Myxazin and it all grew back good as gold.

 

[Jo Crane]

Well she is still alive - still super stressed out rapid breathing but I think you will agree she is looking much improved

 

[Jo Crane]

Well spoke too soon she is dead

 

[scatz]

oh no, so sorry she didn't make it.
i guess the stress was too much

 

[Jo Crane]

Yep the rapid breathing never slowed down so thats my guess to, thats fish for you these things happen :dk:

 

[Doodles]

Sorry to hear that Jo

 

[Brengun]

She did look pretty bad. Oh well, her suffering is over. Hope the culprit doesn't go silly and do something like that with the next one. Be watchful.

 

[zeebo]

was following your post, sorry you lost her. Looks like it was a pretty bad injury and you tried to help her. Sucks.
Georgie