melinajulia
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Hi everyone! I've been following this forum a lot since I got Florencio last October. Amazing tips and info. So thanks a lot!!
I'm posting for the first time because I woke up this morning with my leucitic started showing signs of spasms, like seizures. Nothing changed in the last 2 months (when I added some marimo balls to his tank). Water temperature and parameters are within the normal spectrum (0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 20 nitrates, 18 degrees). He is been eating normally (one earthworm every 2 days), he is in a good mood (approaches when I'm near the tank, swims around, gills doesn't seem curved). I saw a couple of days ago some movements that resembled hiccups (kind of when he is "vacumming" blodworms), when he was jumping on the place a bit 4 or 5 times in a row. But what I saw today is absolutely new and seems more intense. I'm attaching two super short videos so it's clear. I know it looks like he scared himself when you see just one but it has being doing like that on and off during the whole day, even while swimming. Is like this spam and then he goes back to what he was going (he is not swimming around fast or anything like that).
I'm thinking of doing a big 75% water change just in case... although the metrics doesn't show anything weird and I change 25% of the water every week.
Did anyone had a similar situation? Any advice? I checked with the breeder and he told me "is normal, not to worry" but I research online a lot and I'm having a super hard time finding any info about it so I don't think is THAT normal. It doesn't look comfortable and breaks my heart to see him spamming like this
Thanks a lot in advance for any info you can provide!
I'm posting for the first time because I woke up this morning with my leucitic started showing signs of spasms, like seizures. Nothing changed in the last 2 months (when I added some marimo balls to his tank). Water temperature and parameters are within the normal spectrum (0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 20 nitrates, 18 degrees). He is been eating normally (one earthworm every 2 days), he is in a good mood (approaches when I'm near the tank, swims around, gills doesn't seem curved). I saw a couple of days ago some movements that resembled hiccups (kind of when he is "vacumming" blodworms), when he was jumping on the place a bit 4 or 5 times in a row. But what I saw today is absolutely new and seems more intense. I'm attaching two super short videos so it's clear. I know it looks like he scared himself when you see just one but it has being doing like that on and off during the whole day, even while swimming. Is like this spam and then he goes back to what he was going (he is not swimming around fast or anything like that).
I'm thinking of doing a big 75% water change just in case... although the metrics doesn't show anything weird and I change 25% of the water every week.
Did anyone had a similar situation? Any advice? I checked with the breeder and he told me "is normal, not to worry" but I research online a lot and I'm having a super hard time finding any info about it so I don't think is THAT normal. It doesn't look comfortable and breaks my heart to see him spamming like this
Thanks a lot in advance for any info you can provide!
