Capt. Neckbeard
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I've been keeping platies for over a year now, I've yet to have any of them get any illnesses but over the last few days I've noticed one particular fish (named Longboy for apparent reasons) seemingly start to... 'deform', I suppose.
Below is a picture of him as he used to be. We named him Longboy due to how he looked like he had been stretched out.
Below is how he looks now.
To clarify: his head looks lumpier, and his body has a noticeable curve that wasn't there before, his rear half and tail all seem to be drooping a lot more than they ever did in the past. He always looked kinda stretched out but he never had any real issues, as the first image shows he was mostly just a perfectly happy and healthy male platy.
He still swims around quite normally and seems to be eating okay, but I'm getting worried about how he looks. The lumpiness of his head, the weird curve towards his tail, it looks like something has actually HAPPENED to him, but I can't think of anything that would have caused it. The tank only has platies and as said before, they've all been living well for over a year, I've never had any of them get any illnesses.
It's also worth noting that Longboy is the only one this has happened to. The others all still look totally okay, even a few that I got at the same time. One of my thoughts was this could just be age catching up with him, I doubt it'd really 'affect' fish like that but I can't think of a disease that would do this either. I have a brochure on common fish illnesses, it doesn't match anything there (except maybe Dropsy due to the lumpiness on his head, but that's a very massive 'maybe'.)
Anyone got any insight or advice? I hope the little guy's going to be okay, it just looks like such a strange thing to happen to him out of nowhere, and to only him.
Below is a picture of him as he used to be. We named him Longboy due to how he looked like he had been stretched out.
Below is how he looks now.
To clarify: his head looks lumpier, and his body has a noticeable curve that wasn't there before, his rear half and tail all seem to be drooping a lot more than they ever did in the past. He always looked kinda stretched out but he never had any real issues, as the first image shows he was mostly just a perfectly happy and healthy male platy.
He still swims around quite normally and seems to be eating okay, but I'm getting worried about how he looks. The lumpiness of his head, the weird curve towards his tail, it looks like something has actually HAPPENED to him, but I can't think of anything that would have caused it. The tank only has platies and as said before, they've all been living well for over a year, I've never had any of them get any illnesses.
It's also worth noting that Longboy is the only one this has happened to. The others all still look totally okay, even a few that I got at the same time. One of my thoughts was this could just be age catching up with him, I doubt it'd really 'affect' fish like that but I can't think of a disease that would do this either. I have a brochure on common fish illnesses, it doesn't match anything there (except maybe Dropsy due to the lumpiness on his head, but that's a very massive 'maybe'.)
Anyone got any insight or advice? I hope the little guy's going to be okay, it just looks like such a strange thing to happen to him out of nowhere, and to only him.