Hello. I had my first pleco for one month, and this morning I found him dead. He was active and fine yesterday. I don't know what happened! He was in a 10 gallon tank with one goldfish. The goldfish is 2" long and the pleco 3 1/2". I feed the goldfish his food, and then I give an algae wafer at night to my pleco. What was strange this morning is that my pleco's tail was frayed, and there was a big gelatinous glob on the tank floor surrounding one of his wafers. The gelatinous glob had really small pearl-like balls on it. What was that? Also, he was floating by the filter. Could the filter have killed him somehow? I have a Whisper PF-10. One more thing, when I took my pleco out of the tank and examined him, there was a small red dot of blood underneath his upper left fin area.
Yesterday, I tested the water and everything was in normal range. But, about a week ago I had treated my tank with methylene blue because my goldfish's mouth looked like it was fusing shut and I thought he had a mouth fungus. So as a preventative, I used this product for 2 days. Everything seemed to be fine after. Thank you all for your help.
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Dead Pleco
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Hello.
Your goldfish may have been picking on the pleco (hence the frayed fins). It's possible, but I don't think that the goldfish could have killed your pleco. And I don't think it was the filter either.The methylene blue shouldn't have had any ill effects on the pleco.
As for the gelatinous blob... do you have snails? If so, it could be a snail egg casing. If not, I am not sure what that could be.
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