Omg This Looks Painful!

[connorsbala]

My last panda cory (other two i think died of too high temp as treating for whitespot) looks as though the top of him is bleeding! Its like the top fin is bleeding. Its really weird. He struggling to keep his balance. If only my dad would let me get a hospital tank and i could treat him with fin healer. I dont feel comfortable to add any as i spootted a few white spots on my clowns which is a shame as they are new and i thought the white spot had gone

 

[WILDER]

Have you increased aeration with the high temp and med.
The cory has septicemia and once it has advanced hard to cure, sorry.

 

[connorsbala]

He has sadly died along with my leopard frog pleco Hopefully wildwoods will give me another plec. HAve i increased aeriation? Do you mean by using air pumps?

 

[WILDER]

If you have increased aeration good.
Air pump and airstone for extra aeration.

 

[connorsbala]

No i havent added an air pump or airstone.I might get my mum to get me one 2moz as i dont want the others dead. THe clowns seem to be at the surface alot,is this normal? DO air pumps need to be plugged in? and do you need an air pump to use an airstone or can you just put one in the water?
DO they really work?!

 

[WILDER]

If the clowns are at the top of the tank lack of 02 on the water.
Take some water out of the tank so the filter can put more 02 in the water.

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[connorsbala]

The thing is its a juwel tank,and the powerhead is like a good 6 or so inches under water. So,ill get an air pump 2moz. DO they need to be plugged into a socket? ANd do i also need an airstone for it?
thANKS FOR YOUR HELP WILDER!

 

[WILDER]

Yes the air pump need a plug socket.
Tell the lfs you need a pump and airstone as you are using meds, he will know what you mean.
Might sure you get a back flow tube, and also a little plastic thing that you can turn the flow of the airstone up and down.

Gang valve, and a non return air flow
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[dwarfgourami]

Sorry to hear about your pec (and the others of course). Apart from the aeration, which you've had good advice on, a couple of thoughts strike me:
I am assuming that the white spot struck after you had brought the plec home (as obviously nobody would be bringing an expensive wild caught fish into a tank with known health problems). Does this mean other fish were also new? You see what I'm getting at- could there have been an ammonia spike etc due to sudden overloading of the filter. Even the plec on his own might have caused it in such a small tank- I had a small ammonia spike when I moved my female bristlenose into my Rekord 70, and that tank was much more lightly stocked than yours.
Is the stocking list still relevant (apart from the dead fish you have mentioned)? If so, it does strike me as quite a heavy load on this tank- even assuming that the bala and the clowns are really small (which I am probably right in assuming). They are not massively filtered, these tanks; in fact, I am running an extra fluval on mine, together with the Juwel standard filter. I sort of wonder if your filtration is up to the job.

 

[connorsbala]

Mmmm i might get another extra external filter
Erm,i have been doing tests and everything is 0,but not sure about nitrate as gills are red. The pleco didnt bring whitespot inot the tank as i had it before recently and thought it had gone,but obviously not...
Anyway thanks for the advice
And i got an air pump today

 

[kribensis12]

Your sig says that you have a 70 litre tank? That is about 25 U.S. gallons and I would say that the tank is overstocked. You might want to get a bio-whell filtration systema and get rid of the bala and clowns becuase they get way to big for that tank.

 

[WILDER]

Red gills bad water quality, parasites, to bacterial.