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Nitrite: 0
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pH: 6.8
Temp: 78
I have a planted, cycled, and heated 20 gallon long that is currently housing one male betta, four cory catfish, and one harlequin rasbora. Around March of this year I bought 8 harlequin rasboras and I noticed an odd behavior in them. One rasbora would always be excluded from the group, pale and stressed and just hanging in the corner. This would go on until that rasbora would die and then the same thing would happen to another single rasbora. A few days before they die/disappear I would notice injuries on them and I would see the poor guy get chased around.
Eventually I got down to 4 of them so I bought more to bring the number back up to ten. Same thing happened. One of the bullied ones had this weird cyst and what looked like fungus coming out of the gills. I separated him but I believe this happened because of the stress of being bullied. Two different bettas have been in the tank and both never bothered the rasboras. The first betta that was in that tank passed away from dropsy symptoms but had the same fuzz the rasbora had a few days before passing away. So the bullying is dangerous to my other fish and I don't want the same thing to happen to the current betta in there.
The tank is pretty well planted so they have access to cover but rarely use it. For about a month I had two left until a few days ago where I noticed one of them was bleeding from his side. I tried to help him out and put peroxide on it but he passed away last night. Does anyone know why this is happening?
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate <5
pH: 6.8
Temp: 78
I have a planted, cycled, and heated 20 gallon long that is currently housing one male betta, four cory catfish, and one harlequin rasbora. Around March of this year I bought 8 harlequin rasboras and I noticed an odd behavior in them. One rasbora would always be excluded from the group, pale and stressed and just hanging in the corner. This would go on until that rasbora would die and then the same thing would happen to another single rasbora. A few days before they die/disappear I would notice injuries on them and I would see the poor guy get chased around.
Eventually I got down to 4 of them so I bought more to bring the number back up to ten. Same thing happened. One of the bullied ones had this weird cyst and what looked like fungus coming out of the gills. I separated him but I believe this happened because of the stress of being bullied. Two different bettas have been in the tank and both never bothered the rasboras. The first betta that was in that tank passed away from dropsy symptoms but had the same fuzz the rasbora had a few days before passing away. So the bullying is dangerous to my other fish and I don't want the same thing to happen to the current betta in there.
The tank is pretty well planted so they have access to cover but rarely use it. For about a month I had two left until a few days ago where I noticed one of them was bleeding from his side. I tried to help him out and put peroxide on it but he passed away last night. Does anyone know why this is happening?