L046 found dead

[Joby]

I was gutted to find one of my L046 Zebra Plecos dead this afternoon during a routine water change

Tested the water and all is spot on so don't know what happened. I had worried it had got trapped somehow but belly wasn't sunken at all so am puzzled as to what has happened :-/

Don't appear to be any marks on it but it had been dead a couple of days as most of the fins were gone and hardly any colour left on it

 

[Doodles]

Was the temp ok?

 

[Joby]

Yes temp was normal

Nothing new introduced at all

They had been in and out of caves the last 2 weeks so wondered if perhaps it could have been males fighting for spawning rights?

 

[Doodles]

Most likely if everything else was ok.

Everyone else is fine and acting as normal?

 

[SmithRC]

Bad news

sometimes these things happen

If it has very little colour left it'll be hard to say if it was fighting

What sort of size was it?

 

[graham26]

Sorry for your loss but i have lost many a fish with unexplained reasons everything has seemed well within tank & tankmates & the odd fish that seemed healthy just passes away with no obvious reason

 

[Joby]

Thanks guys I guess I'll just have to put it down to one of those things :huh: but will be watching the remaining 5 very closely.

Russell it was one of the middle size ones, about 2", I still have the 2 larger ones that are about 2.5" now.

Its strange that I expected something whithin the first few weeks of having them due to settling in but not this far down the road

 

[st24rsap]

i had a similar thing happen with my group when the largest male decided he was ready to start breeding. All had been fine for 6 months or so since i got them and then i found one in the tank dead, it didnt look too badly marked but had been chewed a bit. The water was fine and everything checked out ok so i put it down to a smaller zeb being trapped in a cave by the large male

sorry for your loss

 

[Joby]

Oh dear, its awful isn't it

I guess it must be something similar but will never know for sure

 

[Irene0100]

what a shame.
it happened to me not long ago, and i had had him for 2 years.
but had fed some krill a few days earlier which i had never tried before so i wondered if that had been the cause.

 

[Rabbit]

Sorry to hear mate.