Albino Cory - Possible Fungal Infection?

[surlaw]

Hello fish people, I've had an albino cory in my tank for about six months now, along with a few other cories, some guppies, four dwarf gouramis, and a rubberlip pleco. The albino cory has grown larger than the rest and is very energetic and eats well. The tank's a 60 gallon and all levels seem to be decent. Last night, I noticed a white thing that's appeared on the albino cory's fin; I've attached a picture and circled it. I haven't see this before. Is it a fungal infection, an injury, something else?
 
Thanks for the help!
 

 

[fluttermoth]

Hi there.
 
Can you post the exact numbers from your tests please?
 
Also, what other fish do you have in the tank?

 

[Lillefishy]

What are you feeding them? Corys can develop fatty lumps when fed too much high protein food, adjust the food & the lump should go away.

 

[Akasha72]

that's interesting lilliefishy... I have a panda with a funny fin and that looks like a fat lump too. I'll have to check their food and see if there's a lot of protein in it. Thanks for that! I never knew

 

[surlaw]

Hi there.
 
Can you post the exact numbers from your tests please?
 
Also, what other fish do you have in the tank?

 

Nitrate - 20 ppm
Nitrite - 0
Chlorine - 0
Alkalinity - 80 ppm
pH - 7.2
 
We've got 4 dwarf gouramis, 7 guppies, a rubberlip pleco, four corys, and a couple of snails.
 

What are you feeding them? Corys can develop fatty lumps when fed too much high protein food, adjust the food & the lump should go away.

That's interesting! This cory does seem to eat a lot more than the rest (and grew a lot faster.) We feed them Aqueon Tropical Flakes, which looks like it has 41% crude protein. Would you recommend a different protein value?

 

[Brittleskittle84]

What are you feeding them? Corys can develop fatty lumps when fed too much high protein food, adjust the food & the lump should go away.

I noticed this right away when I started feeding my corys Wardleys shrimp pellets for corydoras. It didn't take much. I switched to omega one shrimp pellets for corydoras recently so I'll see how it works compared to the other brand. I now only feed my tank omega one. Flakes, algae rounds, betta pellets, salamander/frog pellets for my African dwarf frog

 

[Colin_T]

Hi Brittleskittle84 and welcome to the forum

Don't get too carried away with this thread, it is from 2015