diggityDawg
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About a week ago I noticed my adult female had what looked like some uneaten sinking pellet food caught in her top-left gill. I figured she would dislodge it in her normal movements around the tank. A couple days later she spent nearly two days between a rock and the side of the tank. Wouldn't move, but would eat when I dropped earthworms down from above. Finally I moved the rock and she came out. Now it looks like the pellet in her gill may be fungus, because I can't see much of her gill at all any more. I tried gently sucking the pellet off of her using a turkey baster and she FREAKED. Swam all over the tank and kept rubbing the gill against the sand and the side. But it's still there. Any idea what this is and how to treat it if it is fungus? I'll post a pic here, hard to get a good one though.
FYI, my water temps are around 55-58F. I feed a couple earthworms each day, and occasionally replace them with the sinking pellets. They usually eat about 1/3 of the pellets as I feed them, and then eat the rest later from the floor of the tank. Lately I've noticed the uneaten pellets have been wrapped in a gel that resembles an egg casing. I've been removing those from the tank as I see them...
Thanks for your help!
FYI, my water temps are around 55-58F. I feed a couple earthworms each day, and occasionally replace them with the sinking pellets. They usually eat about 1/3 of the pellets as I feed them, and then eat the rest later from the floor of the tank. Lately I've noticed the uneaten pellets have been wrapped in a gel that resembles an egg casing. I've been removing those from the tank as I see them...
Thanks for your help!
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