Hello,
First let me thank you all for posting here.
Then let me ask something related to the same issue described on this post. I've had flashing platies for a while already.
We have a 38 gallons community tank and a small 5 gallons quarantine tank. Both are over 4-5 months old.
In the big tank we have angels, tiger barbs, mollies, danios, rasboras and neons. The small tank was thought for quarantine purposes but so far is keeping two small baby platies.
The problem started in the 38 tanks but it only seemed to affect more the platies than any other fish in the tank. I've noticed a few times some tiger barb or some zebra danio flashing on the plants or objects, but the platies seemed to be the more affected ones. Odd enough, they don't present any white spots, or yellowish or silver or anything I can see on the fishes body.
In a bad move, we transfer an about to give birth pregnant platy that never showed any flashing from the big tank over to the quarantine one. And now the baby platies are flashing like nut cases, something they haven't done before.
In a side note, I would like to mention that in the last month or two we lost at least 3 platies to this rare behavior. They tried to eat but they spit all the food back out. This last for a few days until they eventually die..
Any idea what could this be? Any medicine I could use to re-mediate it?
I've checked
pH,
ammonia,
nitrite, and
nitrate. Temperature is also ok.
Thanks a lot for any commentaries / solutions.
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