Ok, so I have an Amazon type setup, and everything has been fine with my existing fish and one loner corycat (trilineatus). I FINALLY found some guys of his species so I put them in along with a new rubber mouthed pleco and a Bolivian Ram. They seemed to have been doing fine for a few weeks but recently I noticed my corcat is missing all of his barbels!! The two littler cories I added with him are fine (intact barbels and fins) and no other fish seem to be "damaged". I also noticed a pretty ragged dorsal fin... Any ideas on what is going on? Could my pleco or ram or the new corys possibly be the culprits? I have never seen any aggresion between any of the fish in my tank... Your help is appreciated.
Cory Getting Eaten Alive?
- Thread starter Chuka1212
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newtotropical
Fishaholic
Do you have sand or gravel substrate?
Your ram could be the gulity one, if you have room try adding a female.
dwarfgourami
Fish Connoisseur
Could also be bacterial infection. How often do you vacuum the substrate? What are your water stats? Is there an area of the bottom where bacteria could build up?
Ok, about the water stats. I ordered a test kit from the internet, it is taking forever, but I take a sample to my LFS about once a week and tests have come up good (they never give you ppm just no time for them to do that). my substrate is small gravel, most are rounded. I thought it could be the gravel but he's been fine in there for months. I clean my gravel/do a water change once a week without fail. I don't know of any bacterial areas... what should I be looking for? I also forgot to mention I put some driftwood in at about the same time as my new guys, and it's leeching quite a bit of tannins... could that contribute to the missing barbels/dorsal fin problem? Thanks for the responses by the way!
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