Panda Cory With Red Thing Hanging From Gill

[missPenguin]

Very worried about one of my panda corys who appears top have something red hanging from his gill.

The pandas were intorduced to my main tank just over a week ago after having being quaretined for 4 weeks. Unfortunately I have not been around for the last couple of days as I was visiting my sister and her new baby [a bit of an emergency dash there as I was needed] so I left the fish in the care of my fiance so reports that the fish apparently have been all fine and stats for ammonia and nitrite have been 0.

H edoesn't seem happy either, he's leaning to oneside slightly and every so often will dart to the surface then swim back down again. The tank is well planted and runs with 2 in no. fluval plus 3 filters plus an airstone so I can't see how the fish would be short of oxygen in any way.

The fish have all had a feed of bloodworm tonight, about 3/4 hour ago as they all enjoy it. This thing actually looks like a bloodworm but the food was frozen food [well defrosted and treated with myxazin as a precaution, just as I always do, well rinced before going into the tank]

I'll post my water stats in a sec but yesterday the stats were reported as 0 for ammonia and nitrite and the tank has had a 30% water change today as part of it's weekly maintenance.

 

[WILDER]

Sure he hasn't got a blood worm stuck in his gill, he's not breathing with it stuck there you are going to have to remove it, wrap the fish in a cloth soaked in tank water, sterlise a pair of tweezers and remove it.

Just a very gentle pull with the tweezers.

 

[missPenguin]

Sure he hasn't got a blood worm stuck in his gill, he's not breathing with it stuck there you are going to have to remove it, wrap the fish in a cloth soaked in tank water, sterlise a pair of tweezers and remove it.

Just a very gentle pull with the tweezers.

Thanks for the reply!

Fortuanately he seems to have got a rid of it himself. After accidently netting a couple of platys, then netting his tank mate, got him in the net and had a careful examination, it was gone. Fiance who was watching the tank for me said he had thought he couldn't see it any more but I had to check for myself just in case. He's a bit sulky [the fish as well as my fiance] but is sitting and swimming normally.

Panic over! [until the next time ]

 

[WILDER]

That good, a nice ending for a change.

 

[missPenguin]

That good, a nice ending for a change.

Thanks!

He's snuffling around quite happily this morning as well