Sick Bronze Cory

[kristysweets]

i have a bronze cory that hasn't been doing well. i got my new 29 gal tank a couple days after christmas so it's been running for two months. for the first three or so weeks my water was fine. i had used an already cycled filter from my ten gal plus some water/rocks/ornaments so my tank seemed to be cycled right away, but then my water got cloudy (after the three weeks) so i waited to see if it would clear up and it didn't, then my bronze cory started looking sickly so when i did my weekly water change, i changed a good 90% of it and then i noticed one of the new ornaments i put in there had a white sticker covering the bottom and it was peeling off and i saw it was hollow. when i put it in the tank i had looked at the bottom and saw it was all white and didn't realize it was a sticker so i don't know if that has to do anything with my problems.

anyway i took out the ornament and sealed it(put it back in a couple of weeks later) after the water change i waited to see if my water would clear up, but it didn't after i guess a week. my cory still wasn't doing good, he was really bloated and fat looking, then i noticed a little bit of white on his sides so i treated the tank with maracyn after that he got better and was back to his normal size so since then my tank has been cycling again. it's finished now, but now my bronze cory is back to being fat and bloated. i noticed today that his body is all bubbly looking. were his dorsal fin is his body looks like bubbles. and inbetween his body scales, i know they are not scales, but i don't know what you call it, but you know how they have those lines in thier body inbetween them it's all bubbly. i'm not sure what this is or what to do for him?

my two albino cories are normal, they did have some fin loss during the recycling, but they seem fine otherwise and their fins are growing back. i also had another bronze cory that i accidently killed during the 90% water change, but it was fine. i also had a juli cory that died during the maracyn treatment. the bronze one and juli one that died were new fish, i had qt them for three weeks before i put them in the tank. the other three i've had since october. i did have another bronze cory, but it died in december

i couldn't get a good pic, but this is him. also he breaths fast and my tank params are normal and i just did a water change.

ammonia 0
nitrites 0
nitrates 20-40
ph 8

sorry for the long post

 

[kristysweets]

ok after some research, i think it may be gas bubble disease. is anyone familiar with this? i think that is what the bubbles might be, but i don't know if that causes bloating

 

[WILDER]

Gas bubble desease is when the bubbles are beneath the skin.

You are dealing with a bacterial infections. Do the bubbles look like clear blisters.
Not the writer of this.
Gas Bubble Disease



Symptoms:

Symptoms include blisters that are clearly visible beneath the skin, particularly in the head area, in and around the eyes. Blisters may also form inside the body. Sick fish will make a croaking sound when removed from the water.

 

[kristysweets]

well the part at his dorsal fin is clearish and bubbly. i found the link below, it looks similar to this but not nearly as bad. he also had a bubble on his side, but that is now gone.

http/badmanstropicalfish.com/meds/gas_bubble.html

i know there must be something else going on as well since it had went away with the maracyn, although it did not last long. i noticed today another one of my albino cories has some of his fins gone again. when this first started i fed them jungle anti bacteria food, then when that didn't work i did the maracyn, which helped, but then threw my cycle all off and now it's back again. i have some other fish in the tank aswell(guppies, platties, female betta), they show no outersigns of illness, but they do poop white sometimes. so i'm not sure what to do now. i have various things in my medicine cabinet, but i am out of maracyn.

 

[WILDER]

What do you feed the fish as pooing white can mean internal infection, i think i would start the treatment of maracyn one and two again, and do the full course.

Does it look like a cluster of berries.

 

[kristysweets]

they kinda look like separate bubbles, but yet all connected. here's my poor illustration and a few more pics. in the second one i put red lines to show they do have indentions between them.

i feed them mostly tropical flakes (i have some from big al's and tetra fin) and spirulina flakes. i also feed them dried blood worms, dried brime shrimp, dried plankton, but not on a daily basis.

for the cories i have shrimp pellets, wardley's algae wafers and hikari catfish discs, which the others nibble on that too.

i don't have any maracyn left and there is nowhere near by to get it, but me and my sisters are going shopping this saturday out of town and i'll ask her to bring me to petsmart and see if they have some. i do have some maracyn-two though. it's only been a week since i finished with the maracyn.

 

[WILDER]

I would go with the maracyn two for now, as corys as you know are very suspectable to bacteria infections.

 

[kristysweets]

thanks for the help, i'm gonna start them on it tonight.

 

[mezrie]

how did u get on?? I had exact same thing happen to one of my corys but he didnt make it x

thanks for the help, i'm gonna start them on it tonight.