gash and missing an eye.

[Whisper Odinsky]

i cannot, for the life of me get a photo of this cory. he is bronze coloured with a greenish tinged stripe on the sides of him. he is a balloon, MUCH bigger and rounder then any cory i have ever seen in my life! he had come as a pair of traumatized corys along with this old tank i had recieved. he has a nasty gash on his side, and he is missing his right eye, if not at least half of it. I do know which fish caused this, and this fish has been taken to the LFS.
now, how am i to treat this guy? i would think to put him in the hospital tank, BUT that tank is occupied by 4 ich infested clowns. the missing eye does NOT bother him, he just stays close to the other cories. any tips, suggestions would be very helpful. thankyou in advance.

 

[Fishy_Fish74]

sorry I have no ideas..If i were u i would monitor the guy for awile and try and figure out who did that 2 him so it doesent happen to another fish. Good luck with the fish

 

[reg2k2]

From ur description, I'd say he's a brochis...they look like big cories.
For the gash, u could try Melafix...helps to close n repair wounds.
Or, he may just heal on his own. Keep an eye out for secondary infections, tho...

 

[FloridaFishGuy]

Sorry to hear that man I hope your little cories get better!

 

[bigfish]

Hope your little guy pulls through, i have a bronze cory and she is huge very fat and dumpy looking but i to bits, just recently from dashing around the tank coz a baby platy bite her tail!!!!!.........lol she got burnt on the heater!!!! and ended up with a scalding mark on her back!!!

Melafix is a good option as well as trying to the water quality good as cories are very senstive to changes in it.

HTH

Bigfish

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Whisper Odinsky

I checked back here hoping to learn how your poor fish was doing. I hope your not posting does not mean the news is bad.

 

[joshua]

i had a white albino cory and just before he died his side near the gills started reddening and then he died. does anyone know what happened?

 

[Alien Anna]

i had a white albino cory and just before he died his side near the gills started reddening and then he died. does anyone know what happened?

Did you have any water quality problems? Reddened gills can be a sign of ammonia or nitrite poisoning (usually the latter).