jollysue
Fish Connoisseur
It's been a long time since I posted here. I've moved--big time--become a grandma, and been busy with water changes and getting all my tanks and fish settled and happy, and getting me settled and happy.
Before I moved, I had an out break of columnaris that took many months to get a victory over. I lost many many fish. The next to last fish (I lost another clown loach eventually) to get sick was a peppered cory.
I was worn out with the battle. The cory was in a planted, multicaved 100 usg. That tank is just awful to catchfish in. I had given up. My work had suffered and my health from the constant requirements of the deseased tanks.
But Inchworm would not let it alone. She encouraged me gently and without judgement to keep trying to catch the cory. Finally he allowed me to net him.
We began a regimen of salt dips and Mela/PimaFix treatments. The cory's dorsal fin was a cottony white q-tip almost to the base. It was a very resistant bacteria.
The cory fainted and stopped breathing once after a particularly strong, one-last-try salt dip. But with encouragement he came back. I named him Rocky Balboa. After that he would come straight into my hand without a struggle for the treatments.
He is back in the tank with his friend, and it may be they are doing the Peppered Cory spawn dance. They are doing some kind of dance. Of course there's not a chance for a birth in that tank, but they are happy. And get black worms almost every day.
Rocky Balboa and Friend--sorry it's not a better picture:
Why are Cories so hard to shoot? One more shot:
The shot of the one lone bc baby will wait
Before I moved, I had an out break of columnaris that took many months to get a victory over. I lost many many fish. The next to last fish (I lost another clown loach eventually) to get sick was a peppered cory.
I was worn out with the battle. The cory was in a planted, multicaved 100 usg. That tank is just awful to catchfish in. I had given up. My work had suffered and my health from the constant requirements of the deseased tanks.
But Inchworm would not let it alone. She encouraged me gently and without judgement to keep trying to catch the cory. Finally he allowed me to net him.
We began a regimen of salt dips and Mela/PimaFix treatments. The cory's dorsal fin was a cottony white q-tip almost to the base. It was a very resistant bacteria.
The cory fainted and stopped breathing once after a particularly strong, one-last-try salt dip. But with encouragement he came back. I named him Rocky Balboa. After that he would come straight into my hand without a struggle for the treatments.
He is back in the tank with his friend, and it may be they are doing the Peppered Cory spawn dance. They are doing some kind of dance. Of course there's not a chance for a birth in that tank, but they are happy. And get black worms almost every day.
Rocky Balboa and Friend--sorry it's not a better picture:
Why are Cories so hard to shoot? One more shot:
The shot of the one lone bc baby will wait
