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I have two standard fantails, both less than a year old. Ever since shortly after I got them they've had a black growth on their tail fins. Suddenly it has gotten worse with no apparent trigger and has slit their tails entirely where the two tails connect, but it is not affecting any other...

No. The other male that was showing signs of the disease seems to be doing better now with only a slight greying on the nose.

No, I don't know what meds to use

Please help

It's not a wound, it's dead tissue that completely enveloped his dorsal side. That Rummy died, but now the other male is starting to show signs of greying.

Tank size:10 US Gal pH: 7.8 ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate: 2 ppm tank temp: 78F Fish Symptoms: Male Rummy nose, Greying tissue on dorsal side, colours are not faded. Fish is completely immobile and panting. Can move, but is weak and rare. I first found him laying in a plant. I put him in a...

Cory's are also schooling fish and do best in groups of three or more. I have two peppered and 1 unknown and they do just fine, but when I had only the two peppered, they just stayed in the corner of the tank all day except to eat. When I put them in with the unknown, they all became quite...

They look a lot like C. ambiacus

No. they school with the silver-tips and cories, and are perfectly fine by the evening. Liquid pH, there are no nitrites or ammonia, and the nitrates are somewhere around 2 ppm

Hello all. I have a fourteen gallon community tank. In the tank I have five Rummy Nose Tetras (although one has mysteriously disappeared today...), four red morph Silver-tipped Tetras, and Three assorted Cory Cats. Every morning the tetras are nearly transparent and their colour is completely...