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I literally looked in the aquarium 60 seconds ago and thought I’ll go on the forum and ask @Colin_T whether he thinks I should add another dose! Much more active today and seems to be swimming better so I’ll add a second dose this morning. I also fed bloodworms the last 2 days for some variety...

Would you recommend I add another dose of the anti-internal bacteria treatment from NTLabs? It says it can be dosed every other day up to 4 applications. The cory seems in much better spirits but still has a white patch on its head

I’ve now added salt. How long should I leave it before my next water change? (I last did one on Saturday morning.)

Thanks, once or twice but not frequent trips to the top. I feed mostly catfish pellets, micro crumbs (because of the small tetras) and once every couple weeks frozen live food such as cyclops, bloodworm or daphnia). I’m leaning towards putting in the internal bacteria treatment as a caution and...

@CassCats thanks again. I’ll test the water first thing and then I’ll add the treatment I have.

The bleeding/grazing is only on the left side

Thanks! I don’t have a second tank unfortunately. I do have a “birthing/fry container” that clips to the inside of the tank for live bearers but whatever treatment I put in that will seep into the main tank. Should I go the route of treating with an antibiotic? (But it would need to be shrimp...

@Colin_T here are 2 videos: And a photo showing the graze (which thankfully looks better today)

He doesn’t do it consistently but if he does I’ll film it (I only ever film landscape. I can’t understand why people at concerts mostly film in portrait mode.)

That’s great, thanks. I’ll order some salt now on Amazon and get some photos of the cory and post them here in case you or anyone else can/does spot something going on externally.

@Colin_T thanks for the advice. I can’t see anything external on him. No new fish have been added so I don’t think it’s anything external and I wash out the filter pads weekly (in aquarium water) but clearly something is irritating him. I’ll take another close look at him this evening when the...

I’m really concerned about my cory. I noticed him scratching on the substrate (sand) again this week so did a 45% water change yesterday. In the evening I noticed his side was badly grazed again and a bit “bloody”. I still can’t figure out what he’s scratched himself on, could it be the itching...

@Colin_T thanks! He only does it when resting and eats normally, I was just concerned as it’s a new thing he’s doing.

Got back from my trip and his wounds had completelt healed, which I was really pleased about. However, another issue is persisting and that’s that he sits off balance on the substrate like he’s lop-sided. This has been going on for a couple weeks and his barbells all seem intact so I can’t...

Thanks for the advice! Luckily I did a clean today and a 40-50% water change. I think he must have scratched himself on some small rocks on the bottom as there’s nothing else remotely sharpe in there. I’ll remove the couple that are in the tank in case. I don’t have carbon in my filter, just...

Two days ago when I was doing some tank maintenance my cory began shooting all over the tank like mad. Yesterday I noticed he was slightly off balance and he looks the same today so I looked more closely and can see two small vertical scratches on one side that are bright red. I’ve just put in...

Hi, I do have a glass lid on the tank, and your theory would explain why my two attempts at having floating plants ended with them disintegrating within a week. If I drop the level though it won’t look as good though so I’ll keep it as it is.

Thanks! This is my first planted tank and I’ve had it a little over a year. Everyone who comes to the house loves it but when I look at it I always see the issues (algae, snails, CO2 diffuser clogging up), but I expect a lot of people here are the same with theirs, lol. I tried floating plants...

As requested :)

I think you could be the right, the leaves toward the top of the plant are developing an auburn tint.

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately I don’t know the name of this plant or the previous two which vanished. I only have 5 hrs of light as the aquarium is in the kitchen in a sunny spot so it gets a lot of light/non-direct sunlight, especially this time of year. The CO2 comes on 1hr before...

Thanks for getting back to me. The substrate is just aquarium sand. This particular plant is doing well in terms of growth but the previous two literally disintegrated in a matter of weeks and that’s the issue/problem that I need to solve.

In my aquarium plants seem to either thrive or vaporise in 2 weeks. I’ve had one plant now for 2 years which is thriving (and so is the hair algae that’s recently started covering it’s leaves) but 2 other plants recently disintegrated within 3/4 weeks of purchasing them and a replacement plant I...

Thanks for all the tips, I’ll check them out this weekend.

I have a 55 litre planted nano tank and am struggling again with algae. The hair algae seemed to clear up and my rosaefolia was doing brilliantly, I had to continually trim it but now I have another algae outbreak and it’s affecting the plant. Before, it was growing brilliantly and was bright...