Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Health => Topic started by: Beckins on September 28, 2020, 12:07:47 PM
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Hi guys,
So ive been on holiday for 3 weeks so mum has been looking after the fish tank best she can for me. She has been checking ammonia daily for me and doing 50-75% water changes every week and adding prime on other days as im still having a few ammonia issues :/.
The last week she noticed one of my corys isnt so happy :( I was wondering if anyone has any ideas for whats wrong, he is very discoloured and appears lifeless alot of the time. Wondering if theres anything i can do or if its too late for this guy?
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He does look quite firmly stuck to the bottom of the tank. Has he been getting plenty of variety in his diet ie catfish pellets/tablets and live or frozen food (eg daphnia, brineshrimp or bloodworm)? Even some veg like a slice of boiled/blanched courgette (left to cool before putting in tank) might help too.
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I left my mum food to give them every other day to include mixtures of vitalis catfish pellets, fish science cory tablets, hikari sinking wafers and tetra micro granules and tetra min flakes for the other guys..they haven't had any frozen food for 3 weeks as I didn't want to bother my mum with it. The other corys I have are all fine :-\ This guy doesn't seem interested in eating anything he mostly just sits in one place :(
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It looks emaciated, with a whiteness which is probably bacterial, in corys.
It also looks like it has no barbels., which could be the disease or the substrate.
It’s C. trilineatus btw, not C. sterbai.
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It does have barbels, think its just a bad picture, I have fine sand substrate. I wasn't sure if he was sterbai or trilineatous as a sterbai picture I saw looked very similar too 🤣
I still have some melafix left prehaps I will give that a try then.
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It’s C. trilineatus btw, not C. sterbai.
Doh - I should have mentioned that; very envious as that's my favourite cory.
If you do dose the Melafix, just monitor the tank carefully and make sure that there's plenty of surface agitation produced from the filter. Personally, I like it and so far have had no problem with it, but some species of fish don't react too well to it, esp those that have a labyrinth organ to go up to the surface to breathe and which includes cories. I can't recall whether or not I used it when I had cories.
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I have used the melafix before with pimafix to try and combat the possible fungus i had, no bad effects with corys although it also didn't fix anything :/