Help: Bristlenose belly swollen

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  1. Cle07044

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    My baby bristlenose pleco belly looks swollen, what can be wrong?
     
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    can you post a picture?
     
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    i had the same thing and within 2 days bam dead i wish i knew why :bawling:
     
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    Could be some sort of bowel obstruction.
    I lost a Plec to this.

    Do you feed fresh vegetables? (Cucumber, Baby Marrow, Lettuce etc).
    If it will eat some now, that may help it pass the blockage, but the prognosis is not good.
     
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    Could be some type of parasitic worm?

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    I feed them fresh cucumber and some sinking pallets. I also lost one about 3 weeks ago, belly just swelled up and a few days later it died. Does not eat just sits there.
     
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    Dear all, there's nothing you can do from them this point on wards,

    i breed ancistrus plecos and sometimes the blockage will happen and you
    can try anything, with salt to try help and feed garlic incase of infections
    And the list goes on, one that get there you about good to let it go.
    Can't be bad water quality my water change is daily and I feed baby marrows
    and supplement with wafers every 2 weeks, wafers also tend to make them bloat
    i myself lose a lot of babies 2-3 a day sometimes sub adults when they bloat
    from wafers, or else they will happily live on.
    i have 300+ ancistrus
     

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