Hey guys. I had one of my peppered corys die the other day. I glace and count the fish almost daily, but I guess this one had either been hiding, or im not sure how i missed it.
But by the time I noticed it, there was a fairly large growth (aproximately 3x the size of their eyeball) on the side of its body and it was separating itself from the rest of the fish. It was an opaque but kinda clearish oddly shaped lump sticking out from the side - not like an outward bulge, closer to a roundish shape separated from the body and only attached by one side of the sphere. After I noticed the lump I immediately did an ich treatment, just incase that is what it was, but hindsight, I don't think it was ich because it wasn't white, but finished the treatment anyway.
48ish hours after I first noticed the lump, and that he was separating himself, the fish had died. On the very last day he showed a light red spot on his insides just behind his gills on one side, and was swimming to the surface for air, and also struggling to stay upright as he swam, then resting on the bottom.
Currently, I have examined all my other fish closely with a bright light (I know they hate the light, but I wanted to make sure they were OK) and everyone looks very healthy. No sign of and spots, lumps, roughness, strange colors, ragged fins, everyones eyes look good and they are all behaving totally normally.
I tried doing some searches to see if I could find out what was actually wrong with the fish that passed, but didn't have any luck. Does anyone have any ideas of things that I might search under to try to identify it? I want to make sure it's nothing that is going to affect the other fish.
I tested my water.
zero ammonia
nitrates were maybe a 5 or 15 - I have a hard time reading that scale as the colors between 0 and 20 is such a slight change. I was due for a water change, but the ich stuff said to wait until the treatment was done (4 days) and then do a 25% change. so that is scheduled for today.
0 nitrite
pH aprox 7 (normal for this tank)
KH 120 - normal
GH 40ish - also normal
thanks in advance
But by the time I noticed it, there was a fairly large growth (aproximately 3x the size of their eyeball) on the side of its body and it was separating itself from the rest of the fish. It was an opaque but kinda clearish oddly shaped lump sticking out from the side - not like an outward bulge, closer to a roundish shape separated from the body and only attached by one side of the sphere. After I noticed the lump I immediately did an ich treatment, just incase that is what it was, but hindsight, I don't think it was ich because it wasn't white, but finished the treatment anyway.
48ish hours after I first noticed the lump, and that he was separating himself, the fish had died. On the very last day he showed a light red spot on his insides just behind his gills on one side, and was swimming to the surface for air, and also struggling to stay upright as he swam, then resting on the bottom.
Currently, I have examined all my other fish closely with a bright light (I know they hate the light, but I wanted to make sure they were OK) and everyone looks very healthy. No sign of and spots, lumps, roughness, strange colors, ragged fins, everyones eyes look good and they are all behaving totally normally.
I tried doing some searches to see if I could find out what was actually wrong with the fish that passed, but didn't have any luck. Does anyone have any ideas of things that I might search under to try to identify it? I want to make sure it's nothing that is going to affect the other fish.
I tested my water.
zero ammonia
nitrates were maybe a 5 or 15 - I have a hard time reading that scale as the colors between 0 and 20 is such a slight change. I was due for a water change, but the ich stuff said to wait until the treatment was done (4 days) and then do a 25% change. so that is scheduled for today.
0 nitrite
pH aprox 7 (normal for this tank)
KH 120 - normal
GH 40ish - also normal
thanks in advance