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You shouldn't lose bacteria through water changes, most of the beneficial bacteria lives in your filter and some in your substrate. If you can buy a gravel vacuum this will help you keep the gravel clean and you shouldn't need to remove any fish to do it, you just move it around them and then do...

We're you able to quarantine the new fish? Just wondering if they introduced something. Perhaps it isn't worms and this one is just poorly. Are there any other symptoms?

The only thing I can think of from what you've posted is your water changes. 50% or more weekly is recommended, it could be that water quality has affected these fish. Or it could be that they were ill when you got them and just got unlucky.

Just got some pics of the main cory affected. Apologies class isn't clean as I stirred it up loads while searching for that frog earlier. His gills and head area look quite red in general, it doesn't come across fully in the picture but thought it may be relevant.

Oh lordy I spoke too soon, I just found my missing ADF in the tank with the aquarium salt in it! I went to check on it and saw him sitting on top of a lotus leaf at the surface. He must've climbed out there to avoid the salt. Luckily I spotted him and netted him immediately, he's now in with his...

Ah okay sorry your earlier post said to heat up to 30°C, I'll start bringing it back down :)

Thank you, I have a filter and an air stone running 24/7 so will make sure I keep an eye when I do add it. Unfortunately it hasn't arrived today but the salt did. Hoping it arrives tomorrow although I'm out all day again for work so realistically may not get to dose until Friday as I'd rather...

*if* it's worms or another internal parasite the only way to treat it is with a de-wormer (speaking as someone who may be experiencing similar atm and is desperately waiting for meds to arrive!). Maybe try and post a pic when you can and check parameters to make sure there's nothing untoward in...

Thanks all and sorry for all the questions, I have never had to dose a tank with anything before so always feel a little unsure with things like this.

Follow up question, can I use the salt and medication at the same time? Both have been shipped, fingers crossed for arrival tomorrow. Will be setting up a spare tank tomorrow to move the frogs into for the duration of the treatment as the manufacturer recommended separating them.

So I ordered NT labs gill fluke and wormer, active ingredient is flubendazole. I emailed them to doublecheck dosing, hopefully they will reply. It won't arrive until 25th so plan until then is to keep up the water changes (about to do one this morning). I can also turn the heater up. I've also...

The main one affected definitely has a drooping in and rapid respiration. I'll order some medication, hopefully this one will hang on until it arrives.

That's what I was thinking :( aquarium lights are off for the evening now and I'm at work all day tomorrow so I won't have much opportunity to look at the fish unfortunately. Will do a big water change before I leave but that's all I can realistically do tomorrow. In terms of extended operculum...

Substrate is plain aquarium sand. I thought I noticed some stringy bits on the main affected fish yesterday, it's hard to see for sure. Yes they do seem to be aiming for their gills. Nitrate is 10-15ppm. I don't want to buy any medication without being sure what I'm treating, do the symptoms...

I just noticed two different cories flashing... have never seen this before with them so am now thinking is it something like gill flukes?

I go for easy low budget stuff as I'm not the best with plants. Egeria or elodea densea is great and easy to care for, a few bunches of that tend to transform a small tank, and it can be floating or rooted. Amazon swords, java ferns etc are all things I go for as they're low maintenance, cheap...

Thanks Colin, I will start with big daily water changes and see how we go. I'll order some salt as well as a backup.

Yeah I thought he was a goner this morning but I may have been a bit premature, just hoping I can bring him back. I put them both back in the main tank as I felt they were too stressed in the QT, and also figured that if it's contagious the others will have it by now regardless. They both seem...

Managed to get some pictures of him, he's missing part of one barbel and one of his fins doesn't seem to move, almost as if it is paralysed? I'm also not sure if I can see signs of something like ich? Or perhaps it's slime coat, I can't tell and none of the other fish have the same. His...

@Colin_T I've checked them this morning and the one I was originally worried about is just lying on the substrate looking like it's possibly breathing heavily. He wasn't moving at all so I started to get some clove oil ready thinking that it may be kindest, but when I went to net him out he swam...

I was just sitting by my tank and noticed one of my panda cories seemed to be slowly floating towards the top of the tank. Watched him for a bit and while he could get to the bottom, he would start listing slowly to one side once he got there. I decided to catch him out, while I was watching I...

You could try feeding the angelfish first/away from the others to see if that helps reduce any issues. Hopefully it'll be OK, I remember quite a recent thread on here that said angels need minimum 75g but there was lots of disagreement over that and I can't find the thread now. Perhaps explain...

Spotless Water is one company (my partner is a window cleaner lol). I don't use it myself but you may find one near you.

For a purely anecdotal response to OP's question, I have 5 pandas, 5 julii and about a dozen pygmy. The julii have always been more shy (originally had 3 as didn't realise they needed groups originally, then added more), but the pandas are definitely more outgoing. They're less likely to...

I've always erred on the side of caution and kept my tanks under-stocked. Agree with perhaps adding some more pygmies though, I love those little guys. Your shrimp will probably breed at some point although their bioload is small so shouldn't be too much of an issue.

What's your water parameters, this may help people make suggestions? Your Raphael (and algae eaters but i see you're moving them out) can grow to about 5/6 inches so maybe consider moving that out as well. Cories need bigger numbers, minimum 6 is recommended so that would be the first thing I'd...

Welcome! Some awesome tanks you have there! How do you find the betta sorority? Have read lots about them with some saying they all turn on each other eventually but others saying they're fine.

He's a cool little guy, I'm a sucker for bettas and know exactly what you mean about them getting excited!

Welcome! We'd love to see pictures of Miguel!

Well my ADF passed overnight. Can't see any signs of the usual diseases that can affect them and google didn't come up with anything other than a potential bacterial infection. I'll have to keep a very close eye on the rest of them.

Well unfortunately one of my ADF's is on death's door. I did a routine water test this morning (all fine) and I noticed the little guy resting on the sand. I must've spooked him and he tried to swim off but has no coordination and he ended up on his back. I've quarantined him in a very shallow...

Welcome!

Yeah not much I can do about it in this room, there's also only one plug so I can't move the tank! I'm not too worried about it atm.

Did a water change and added an unused ornament I found in my cupboard, I felt like I had too much black space at the back and this really helps. Zazu loves it and has been exploring most of the day! The issue with ammonia and nitrite has gone, it was 8 days since previous change and I was...