Pygmy Cories - 2 With Missing Parts Of Tails, And 1 With A Spot & Bent Spine

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What would you do long term with the media currently in the QT? If you intend returning it to the main tank there is no point in sterilising the QT's hardware. And if you intend throwing it away, you don't need to keep it running in the QT.
It is difficult to sterilise media without the risk of contaminating the tank - for instance Milton can be tricky to remove even with over dosed dechlorinator. An media is quite cheap compared to the 'hardware' if you want to sterlise the filter, get new media.

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As an update on this, following treatment and a few extra days in the QT, I "decommissioned" the QT. In the past few days:
* Tail-less Cory has been settling in better in the main tank after initially remaining subdued - he is now happily foraging away like his peers and adapting well to his tail-less state. 
* Bent Spine Cory's spine seems to have rectified itself in both fracture-like sites and his swimming action is with his caudal fin swishing from side to side rather than plunging up and down, so much so that, if it weren't for the healing wound, he wouldn't be distinguishable from his two normal peers.

Fingers crossed, all will remain well, but I'll continue to keep the close eye on them and all the other fish, as well as the water quality, as I always do.

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