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  I'm pretty certain both are safe to use with dwarf cichlids but I always feel the need to step back and think when using medications with cory's.   I bought the Kanaplex from an online American store. It's basically an antibiotic which the manufacturer claims will be absorbed through the skin...

  I'll go and get the 20L 'hospital' tank, put a small filter in, get the de-chlorinator and med mixed in. Might add some Waterlife Vitazin (vitamin supplement) if its bacterial as I don't want to be feeding any parasites that it may have.   Will keep you informed. I've had a koi that acted like...

  Do you happen to know if any of those will make my Corydoras ill? I know salt needs to be avoided. I usually only use Veterinary grade treatments outside the main aquarium with the fish to be treated. Due to it being very late I cant go about removing it from the main tank at the moment.

  I can't disagree with you really. I'm just saddened that my other fish have to be 'treated' alongside the Bolivian Ram. My fish are disease free 99.9% of the time. Its only when I buy new one's that trouble brews!

  I live in the UK.   I have to hand:   Seachem Metronidazole Kusuri Wormer Plus Seachem Kanaplex Waterlife Sterazin Interpret Anti Internal Bacteria.

  The fish just has a sunken belly and it spat out a Tetra spirulina/vegetable crisp. At certain angles it looks emaciated. I will keep an eye on it. I never thought I'd be considering the use of meds so soon after buying a fish!   I think the fish is a bit on the dark side.

   

    It would be difficult to isolate the fish at this moment but I could try tomorrow when it is not so late.

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  No, the female GBR fell to the floor. That fish is plump and eating well.   It is the Bolivian Ram that appears to have a sunken tummy area. I have noticed it's pelvic fins are actually clamped now.   I have attached a picture.

  Hi Wilder,   There are 7 Albino Corydoras and 5 Black Neon Tetras.   I have some Garlic Guard by Seachem, imported from the USA. I could try it I guess but the issue is that it doesn't notice the food.   I think it looks somewhat sunken but it isn't a thin looking fish in my opinion.   I will...

I bought a Bolivian Ram and a female German Blue Ram, each for different aquariums, from a Pets At Home store on the 10/5/14. After having asked the 'Small Mammals Sale Assistant' to feed the GBR's and having checked for bodily ailments and not finding any, I decided I'd take the plunge and also...

I currently have a 120 litre high-tech aquarium stocked with 4 black neon tetras and 4 albino corydoras. As corydoras, for me, look more spectacular when they are in a large shoal I have been thinking about adding more albino corydoras to the aquarium. The issue I have is determining how many...

  Some fish were floating and nearly dead until I removed them.   How could the ammonia be oxidising into nitrite when there is no traceable ammonia with a total-ammonia test kit and ammonia test kit to begin with? I'm using the API liquid test kit which has always found problems with water...

  The plants seem to be growing fine. I know plants can sometimes grow slightly when in darkness by using up oxygen but for the most part i'm sure they are utilising the injected co2 and some of the nutrients as they would not grow at such a fast rate if they were using oxygen. As I always dose...

My aquarium currently contains 4 albino corydoras which are all continually gasping for air. I have tested my ammonia and nitrite levels and the former is at 0 ppm while the latter is between 0 and 0.25 ppm.   I'm finding that every time I dose the aquarium with nitrate (a fertiliser for the...

  I can only recall what I've observed. I am referring to the way they swim when they are not on the base of a tank; I've witnessed them swim clumsily, indecisively and sometimes franticly.

  You can get cloudy water / algae blooms 1 hour after turning your lights on if there is a lot of ammonia / nitrite / nitrate. I've witnessed this when I was deliberately dosing my tank with liquid ammonia and forgot to turn the lights off.   You need to do as many water changes as you can...

Sorry to contradict you Dave but cyanobacteria (or blue-green algae) is without a doubt caused by a low nitrate concentration of around 10-15 ppm (and apparently can also be induced by a dirty filter but I have no first hand experience of this claim). It is possible to get cyanobacteria in the...

Do you have a lot of organic waste rotting in there? I.e. bits of food in the filter or rotting leaves? The decomposition process of these things can use a lot of oxygen up. Also, the more ammonia and nitrite produced that is produced by the decomposition, the more oxygen is needed for these...

Thanks for both your replies.   In response to DoubleDutch: I thought I'd add that the black neon tetras did start going to the surface and gasping for air; their heads were titled upwards and they would not move from the surface suggesting the water had very little o2 in it. I also witnessed...

Keep your eye on the scale; if there is no reddening, white patch, cotton-wool growths, spots/abscesses near where the scale is sticking out it is generally safe to just leave it alone. It is the skin beneath the scale that you need to observe for problems. So long as you keep your water quality...

I would hazard a guess that the melon contained something toxic to the fish. The chemical called niacin within the melon, when overdosed, can cause cardiac arrhythmias and a sudden raise in blood sugar in humans. Presumably the sugars in the melon were too much for the fish as most conventional...

Which LFS did you get the Corydoras from? I suspect they may have treated one of their tanks with aquarium salt which is not compatible with Cory's. I've had a shoal of Corydoras in one particular tank for about 5 years and I've never experienced gill issues, and ironically, I've never used salt...

Just over a week ago I bought one extra albino corydoras for my aquarium to add to the group of four in the aquarium. The albino corydoras that I added turned out to have part of it's tail fin missing and it was relatively pale and still compared to the rest of shoal. Today, as predicted, the...

  I've imported that from the U.S. however I think it's only worth using on African cichlids. The mouth of a GBR is tiny and when you consider that it won't eat, it's near impossible to get the metronidazole to it's intestine (supposedly where the HITH parasite begins it's active life). A...

  The GBR's I purchase always end up dying 2-3 years later with HITH disease. Of recent, I've been sold GBR's with HITH 3 times in a row so it as though the UK stock of some dwarf cichlids in the East Midlands is absolutely rife with hexamita / HITH.   I think that it may be the very first sign...

I've taken some pictures of the male GBR as I noticed a pin-prick sized white dot on the head. I'm not sure that the said dot should be there and I am thinking that it may be a pus-filled. Anybody else agree with this assessment based on the picture evidence below?      

  Over on UKAP's they have suggested I do exactly that. I will give them a break for 1-2 days and then introduce some de-frosted daphnia / blood worm. I have tried  feeding them freeze-dried blood worm which is irresistible to my black neon tetras; the ram's just spit it out.   No because I...

  Hi there,   Well 'tabs' in my mind relate to the Tabimin product manufactured by Tetra. I've tried them with the aforementioned and Hikari tabs with no luck. I will call the LFS tomorrow and ask them so that I can be sure.   I am keeping my fingers crossed that this lack of eating may be a...

Today I bought a pair of German Blue Rams (one male and one female). I thoroughly checked the pair while they were in the LFS aquarium for gaunt bodies, Hole-in-the-head and any other issues. Based on appearance they ticked all of the boxes and I was reassured by the LFS employee that they were...

I separated my female GBR when the male GBR became quite aggressive towards her. I then returned her after about 2 weeks to the tank containing the male GBR and they re-acquainted themselves on good terms!   If you can do the above I'd definitely suggest it. If you can't, the only other thing...

I will try to provide a worthy response based on the such little detail provided.   I think that your fish may have fin rot. This often causes the fish to stop eating and the edge of the fin that is rotting always has a visible red line at the sight of erosion.   Before accepting the above as a...

It sounds like the medication could have used up the oxygen in the tank water causing the fish to suffocate. This is a rare issue that usually only comes about in very warm water (that is not oxygenated through, for instance, water surface rippling) which in itself relinquishes a higher amount...

It does look like the Corydoras has some sort of internal issue that resembles a tumour. It definitely resembles the tumour that my Auntie's goldfish had and that fish was able to live with it for about 6 months.   The only real cure for this would be to take the fish to a qualified Veterinarian...

What are your ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels?   A high nitrate level doesn't normally affect the health of a fish directly but it can do so indirectly by causing large algae outbreaks (which can suck all of the oxygen out of the water) and other mostly controllable issues along those lines...

  The plants would go dormant during a black out. They would not die at all. They would have to be in complete darkness for around 2 weeks for them to start to die in my view.

Did your corydoras develop pop-eye before they died or have any other sign of a bacterial problem? It's not unusual to have Corydoras nibbling on dead fish once they've passed which then causes their downward spiral.   I agree with the above replies; you have added a large amount of fish in one...

Well it still hasn't eaten. It's laying on the bottom with it's fins clamped so it won't be long now until it passes.   The tank has exceptional water quality and all the other fish, as ever, are thriving so I will put the bolivian ram's health issue down to not being cared for properly by Pets...