Spidergrrrl
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Hi all,
I posted this in the Cory forum, but jollysue suggested I may get more responses here, so here goes:
I'm hoping someone out there can help me. I have a 12 gallon tank with one male betta, seven Corydoras Habrosus (used to be nine until Wednesday) a couple of ghost shrimp and some random snails. It's running an eclipse filter system and has a ton of plants (all doing fine). I am dosing the plants with Flourish and Flourish Excel at half-strength.
A couple of weeks ago I noticed one of my cories acting strangely - flashing (I think that's the term - when they jerk around, looking like they're trying to scratch something or shake something off?), and swimming off-balanced. I noticed that that particular fish had red gills, so I checked my water parameters and everything seemed fine: pH: 7.6, ammonia/nitrite: 0, nitrates: 20ppm. My KH is 7dKH. Not sure about GH - the readings are off the chart. Not sure if it's because the readings are just that high, or my test kit is not good.
Since I didn't see any other visual symptoms of anything wrong, I didn't do any kind of dosing. I did my usual water changes - 10% once a week and things again seemed fine. Then I noticed Wednesday that two of my fish were on the brink of death - just lying there, gasping. I lost one of them Wednesday night, and the other one yesterday morning.
Now I've noticed one of the remaining seven is also starting to flash.
Any ideas what this could be? I'm afraid of doing anything and making things worse.
Thanks!
I posted this in the Cory forum, but jollysue suggested I may get more responses here, so here goes:
I'm hoping someone out there can help me. I have a 12 gallon tank with one male betta, seven Corydoras Habrosus (used to be nine until Wednesday) a couple of ghost shrimp and some random snails. It's running an eclipse filter system and has a ton of plants (all doing fine). I am dosing the plants with Flourish and Flourish Excel at half-strength.
A couple of weeks ago I noticed one of my cories acting strangely - flashing (I think that's the term - when they jerk around, looking like they're trying to scratch something or shake something off?), and swimming off-balanced. I noticed that that particular fish had red gills, so I checked my water parameters and everything seemed fine: pH: 7.6, ammonia/nitrite: 0, nitrates: 20ppm. My KH is 7dKH. Not sure about GH - the readings are off the chart. Not sure if it's because the readings are just that high, or my test kit is not good.
Since I didn't see any other visual symptoms of anything wrong, I didn't do any kind of dosing. I did my usual water changes - 10% once a week and things again seemed fine. Then I noticed Wednesday that two of my fish were on the brink of death - just lying there, gasping. I lost one of them Wednesday night, and the other one yesterday morning.
Now I've noticed one of the remaining seven is also starting to flash.
Any ideas what this could be? I'm afraid of doing anything and making things worse.
Thanks!
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