Help! My Bronze Cory Jumped Out Of His Tank

As you can see she is huge compared to the boy swimmi ng alongside her

Could well be females. When you look at them from above, are there any scales sticking out? (Just trying to rule out dropsy).

Well, i personally believe a 27lt tank is too small for the fish you have, and i believe most people would agree. The problem with the shops is that they just want to make money.

How many cories do you have?

I agree you should look for a bigger tank, i had a simmilar size tank just for a betta...
But we all make these mistakes when starting up. as generally fish shops are a bit pants at advice. even this forum if you ask a question you will get several diffrent answers,.
the only good bit of advice the pet shop have you was to use melafix, i use melafix and pimafix always have a bottle of both in my cures box. as they are quite harmless to the fish but work well to help little injury's and infections...

and as for adding the med that has "natural salts" in, avoid anything tht has salt in with corys, as corys don`t have scales as such, you should be carefull about what chemicals you use, malachite green, and salt are NO NO`s with corys...

Hope stubby pulls through.....

Hi there, sorry to hear about your fish

Just to give you a bit of hope with regards to the tail etc growing back, habve a look at this: Tabby

My fish got injured pretty badly with alot of damage to his scales and fins. With massive thanks to this forum, daily 50% water changes and melafix treatment i am happy to say that all his injuries are now completely healed and fins have 80% grown back so far in around 2 months. So there is a bit of hope for you, and there are many more stories along these lines on here.

Good luck!

Yeah! Stubby!

Hi Chris5787, jollysue, benson112 and biglan.

Thankys every one for the support and kindness and especially the advice. Its great to hear that you believe stubby wil get better. Hes managed to stay alive for 8 days. Today he looks very sad. He stays in one place for hours close to the bottom of the tank. He hasn't attempted to swim since yesterday and I haven't seen him eat today. I have noticed some growth on his tail, its not much but he has grown some back.
I was syphoning the tank and stubby didn't make any attemtpt to move out of the way , I almost sucked him up the tube!
Benson your tabby looks great and is so brave. Do you have any pictures of him when he was hurt? I would like to see how much recovery he made.
Biglan thanks for the tip on not using salts and malachite green. Is there a limit to how long I should use the Melafix
Chris I had a look at the females and couldn't see any scales sticking out and as for your question on how many cories i have, I have 2 bronze cories (including Stubby) and a panda which makes a total of 3.
Jolysue thanks for cheering my Stubby on.
Incase my female minnows start laying their eggs can someone please tell me what options I have of disposing the eggs or fry.

They will likely eat their eggs and young, I think, if they don't have thick cover to hid in. I have some white cloud mountain minnows but so far I have not babies that I know of. If they are not eaten, you will have to do something with them yourself.

white cloud profile

Hi Everyone.

Sorry I haven't been back and answered any posts but I have had the worst couple of days of my life. Stubby stopped eating even when I dropped his food right in front of his face. I could tell he wasn't going to get better because he wasn't moving much so I stayed near him and even stayed up all night. On Thursday at 3am he swam to the front of the tank where I could see him and just stayed there breathing really hard. I sat near him and told him I was really really sorry for leaving the lid open. I told him I would miss him and said goodbye. I saw him pass some blood to the back of his tail and a couple of minutes later he stopped breathing. I took my brave little soldier out of the tank and put him in a jar. I buried him in the garden after the kids went to school. I Know some people may think I am a little extreme mourning and crying for my fish but I developed a special attachment to Stubby from the day I saw him and bought him from the petshop. My fish tank feels so empty without him. He was such a clever fish. He would swim to the same spot when I fed him and he would watch me syphon the tank from close up. He swam around the tank at rocket speed and would bump into any of the other fish that got in his way. He would get hyper at feeding times almost like a dog wagging its tail. My other bronze cory doesn't play much now and doesnt get excited at feeding time.
Im sorry for burdening everyone here with my fish problems but I couldn't share this with anyone who didn't care about their fish and I don't think anyone else would understand.

Thanks JollySue for the White Cloud Minnows profile. When I bought my first Minnow it was by accident. He was in the same tank as the corys and kept jumping into the net so I decided to keep him. I fell in love with him when I got him home,we named him Minow. His colours were a light pink when I bought him but a couple of days later he became a lovely almost red. I have 4 minnows and the second male (Jaws) gets very aggressive. He chases the females all over the tank and they hide in the plants. He then attacks Minow but Minow is so gentle and cute even the girls chase him. The females have the most beautiful feminine faces with to die for eyes. The large female (Sonia) hangs around twith the tetras. I don't if this is because she feels safer with them.

RIP stubby......

And as for the melafix question, when ever you use meds in a tank large and frequent water changes are a must, this helps the fisch by keeping there home and water clean but also stops any overdoses of tthe meds, generaly i`d do a water change every 3 days....

rip stubby

I for one don't mind the posts of your fishy adventures at all. I relive my early fish encounters with you.

It is very odd how attached these little animals can seem to get to us. I first just saved a feeder goldie from the 12" oscar at work, homing him in an Eclipse 12 after keeping him in a jar for awhile. Of course it was not long before I had to get him a bigger tank, and the 12 usg became a community with two Corys and some Tetra and so on. The goldie is now bigger than the oscar was.

Then I got attached to Betta. But I was a terrible Betta mommy, and they are too short lived.

Once I had a brave soldier Cory incident with one of my first peppers. He survived even after a brief death from shock when I gave him the last ditch effort very strong salt water bath. He revived in my hand as moved him slowly around the little 3 usg qt tank water. And now we had a connection. I saw him tell the new pepper friends I got him that I was cool and not to be afraid of me. They all stopped and looked at me.

I slowly switched from Betta to Corys as my particular interest. And now I have a fish room full of the darlings. They can be so very clever with wonderful personalities.

Thanks for understanding guys. Its amazing how small these creatures are and what a big impact they can have on our lives. I can't imagine what it would be like without my fish now. When I started fishkeeping I didn't think I would fall in love with them. I just thought they would look nice. I used to think fishkeepers were silly to spend so much money, time and effort on fish but now i realise its worth it. They are so magical but for new fishkeepers like myself who have just started it can be difficult especially when things start to go downhill. Believe me I almost gave up and called it a day.

stubby

Whatever you do, dont give up because of this. Its happened to most of us in the past. I had an incident with a bronze cory baby that i had bred, didnt have a cover on the tank, jumped out and i didnt find him for a few hours.

Unfortunately its all part of keeping animals, they live, you get attatched but eventually they have to die.

Fishkeeping is definately worth the money and effort.

Chris5787 said:

stubby

Whatever you do, dont give up because of this. Its happened to most of us in the past. I had an incident with a bronze cory baby that i had bred, didnt have a cover on the tank, jumped out and i didnt find him for a few hours.

Unfortunately its all part of keeping animals, they live, you get attatched but eventually they have to die.

Fishkeeping is definately worth the money and effort.

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Like I said Chris I almost gave up. If it wasn't for this wonderful forum and the priceless support and advice I got from everyone here I would have given up. You guys have kept me going and given me genuine sympathy when Iv'e failed. You have shared with me all your memories of when you began fishkeeping and al the mistakes you made. I know these mistakes cost us fish lives but if you all gave up when you started you wouldn't have your fantastic tanks and fishkeeping knowledge. You are my Gurus or Sensei if you prefer.