Beastije
Fish Addict
Hi
One or two of my 15 corydoras sterbai are sick. Last week after my regular (30-40%) water change I observed for the first time breeding behavior of my cories. They are bit too young for that since I only have them from october.
anyway, I was gone a week, no feeding the tank, I come back and notice two cories looking off.
One has fungi in both eyes, they are milky white in the center. The fish is otherwise active, no issues, no sunken belly. I know fungi is a sign of poor water quality, which surprised me a bit, but I guess ok, many hornwort leaves, the wood adds and I didnt vacuum the gravel that well since I have been struggling to keep the hornwort and the tank nozzles and filters at bay. Ok
The other one looks off though. I cant really describe it and I cant take a clear picture for the love of me. it looks like half its mouth is missing, but it is not. The barbs are there, but the mouth is sort of always opened, which gives it a pointy long faced look, unlike the other cories. I think one of the gills is more opened or more prominent or something, cause from one side the mouth and the gill just look off. The fish was really passive, I manage to catch it in the net without great efforts.
Now here is the thing, I moved it to my recently empty of fish tank, which still has lot of flowers, some algae ( keeping it for the shrimp that are not there yet) and lower temp than the other tank. I also put lower than recommended dose of esha2000 in there.
I put the fish there, no slow process either, just dumped it there. It was sitting on leaves and at the ground yesterday, I dropped a small piece of wafer to the tank overnight, cant say I saw the fish eat it. The fish is more active today, swims away when it sees me, switches places but still, mouth opened and bit strange
Wont the fact that the fish is alone now stress it more than keeping it separate?
The ph is mostly similar in the both tanks, around 6,8. temp in the original tank is 27, in this it is 25. Have no nitrate or ammonia test but I suspect the bamboo shrimp would go first and quickly if the water was not ok.
I did a 40% water change with 1/3 gravel vacuum yesterday in the primary tank, I am planning on replacing 30% of the water in this now quarantine tank and perhaps putting another dose of esha, to prevent fungi in any of the places it may happen.
What is better, keeping the fish separate and trying to nurse it like this, or returning it back? In the quarantine I have better chance of seeing the fish, watching it feed and seeing how it fares, in the large one I fear I will just find its dead body at some point. But what if the stress of being alone makes it worse?
Thanks
One or two of my 15 corydoras sterbai are sick. Last week after my regular (30-40%) water change I observed for the first time breeding behavior of my cories. They are bit too young for that since I only have them from october.
anyway, I was gone a week, no feeding the tank, I come back and notice two cories looking off.
One has fungi in both eyes, they are milky white in the center. The fish is otherwise active, no issues, no sunken belly. I know fungi is a sign of poor water quality, which surprised me a bit, but I guess ok, many hornwort leaves, the wood adds and I didnt vacuum the gravel that well since I have been struggling to keep the hornwort and the tank nozzles and filters at bay. Ok
The other one looks off though. I cant really describe it and I cant take a clear picture for the love of me. it looks like half its mouth is missing, but it is not. The barbs are there, but the mouth is sort of always opened, which gives it a pointy long faced look, unlike the other cories. I think one of the gills is more opened or more prominent or something, cause from one side the mouth and the gill just look off. The fish was really passive, I manage to catch it in the net without great efforts.
Now here is the thing, I moved it to my recently empty of fish tank, which still has lot of flowers, some algae ( keeping it for the shrimp that are not there yet) and lower temp than the other tank. I also put lower than recommended dose of esha2000 in there.
I put the fish there, no slow process either, just dumped it there. It was sitting on leaves and at the ground yesterday, I dropped a small piece of wafer to the tank overnight, cant say I saw the fish eat it. The fish is more active today, swims away when it sees me, switches places but still, mouth opened and bit strange
Wont the fact that the fish is alone now stress it more than keeping it separate?
The ph is mostly similar in the both tanks, around 6,8. temp in the original tank is 27, in this it is 25. Have no nitrate or ammonia test but I suspect the bamboo shrimp would go first and quickly if the water was not ok.
I did a 40% water change with 1/3 gravel vacuum yesterday in the primary tank, I am planning on replacing 30% of the water in this now quarantine tank and perhaps putting another dose of esha, to prevent fungi in any of the places it may happen.
What is better, keeping the fish separate and trying to nurse it like this, or returning it back? In the quarantine I have better chance of seeing the fish, watching it feed and seeing how it fares, in the large one I fear I will just find its dead body at some point. But what if the stress of being alone makes it worse?
Thanks
