strange orange genitals ?

[Irene0100]

I had a small L134 lep frog plec in QT for a few weeks (one I swoped for some fry so not a new import - but thought best to qt for a while anyway.)
it was fine, feeding well and plump.
quite a bit smaller than my other L134s so assume its a youngster.
pic here

well my new tank was well seasoned and ready for some plecs
(was set up with existing filter and lots of geo fry for some days and water tested for ph stability etc).
So as no territories existed, I moved 2 large L134 (no idea what sex cos I am hopeless !)
that had been living peacefully in my fry grow-out tank, plus this smaller one, into the new tank.
I thought the small one might be female because of being quite round belly and broad across the beam
( in pic above -what do you think?)-but now I think otherwise!
as soon as he was added world war broke out and he attacked one of the larger fish madly!
despite being smaller! the big one fought back - but I did not want to let them fight it out in case one got injured
so I quickly caught him again.
having him in the hand I took a pic of his belly to see if it would help confirm his sex
-I cant tell with genitalia but hope someone here can??

anyway - he is now back peacfully in the QT tank.
BUT looking at the pics he seems to have orange or yellowish colouring around his parts.
Is this normal? unusual? ailment.?fish VD??
Anybody seen anything like this?

- plus can now see his tail is quite hairy so I guess it must be male.

 

[thegeeman]

No idea what it is Irene but it doesnt look right to me. its a good pic of the problem area so someone in the know should be able to help you.

For what its worth I agree with you on the smaller one being a female.

Cheers

thegeeman

 

[Doodles]

I've not seen anything like that on the web or in books:dk:


Could be worth speaking to whoever you got him from and see if any others are like it.

Looks quite circular?

 

[bre]

It reminds of a thread over on PF maybe 12 months ago....can't quite remember. I've also had one of our fish with a similar orange/yellow mark around that area. I put it down to a sort of urinary infection. The only difference was that both mine, and the one I am thinking about were like one large yellow blotch compared with yours which seems to be a lot of small dots.

I'll see if I can find the thread.

EDIT - I've just spent all 45 mins searching PF and can't find that particular thread. I'll keep searching later.

 

[Doodles]

What happened with your fish that had similar markings Bre?

The only solution at this point may be to keep all stress to a minimum and see if the plec sorts it out by itself.

Do the dots look raised or flat to the skin?

 

[bre]

Damn it.....I've just spent another hour scrolling through the threads on PF and still can't find it :wb: hubby thinks i've gone mad

anyway, we just treated with Melafix and Pimafix and he came good.

I hope it sorts itself out for you Irene.

 

[bre]

Ok, just for reference here is 2 pics of my abn that had it, not great pics however.

 

[Irene0100]

thanks Bre, looks much the same.
i am treating with pimafix and will catch and photo again tomorrow and see if any different.

 

[Irene0100]

noits not raised, just looks like a colour pigment. he is behaving and eating ok

 

[Doodles]

Looks pretty similar to Bre's pics.

Let us know how it goes.

 

[Rabbit]

Urinary tract infection? How does the fecal matter look?

 

[plecmom]

Wow, interesting! Keep updating. Hope all is going good.

 

[Irene0100]

manages to get a glimps of his underside last night, seems slightly better. he is still quite fit. still doing pimafix
will try and get aother photo later

 

[bre]

Good to hear he is looking better from what you can see. I was getting curious as to how he was going.

 

[Irene0100]

Hi, caught him just now, infection or whatever it is is still there
moving to pimafix and melafix together now.
here is todays pic, not sure if much better

 

[bre]

hmm....does look like it has ever so slightly started to get better.
Fingers crossed Irene. I can't even remember how long I treated mine for :wb:

 

[Doodles]

Looks a bit better to me too.

 

[Irene0100]

good, will carry on treating and check again in a few days

 

[macvsog23]

Cant see what the fuss is about mine looks like that all the time?
No being sensible now
Hope it gets better .

 

[SmithRC]

does look better...

might have been worth treating the area while you had it out... hind sight