RainboWBacoN420
Fish Crazy
Hi,
I've had five Sterbai Corydoras in a ten gallon quarantine tank for exactly two weeks now. Everything was going fine, corys were eating, behaving normally. But tonight, while observing them, I noticed one cory had a white flake/scale on his left pectoral fin. I netted him and placed him in a little cup for closer observation. I doesn't appear to be fungus, or at least to me it doesn't. I also noticed he had white stringy feces. He's still swimming and behaving fine, he doesn't seem sick or lethargic.
So I let him back into quarantine, did about a 30-40% water change and began dosing some Kanaplex I had leftover. I can't get any pics to show, corys are so difficult to get pics off, even of he did hold still I probably wouldn't be able to pick up the white "thing" on his fin. The other corydoras don't appear to have anything and seem clean. But I'm treating the whole tank just to be sure it doesn't get passed around.
On top of all that, I discovered one of my albino corys in my 55 has a chewed up tail fin! The top part looks like it was bitten and I'm looking at my Pearl gourami as a suspect...
The cory seems fine though, in fact he doesn't seem to mind I guess. This ha happened before where a cory has a damaged tail fin, but within a week or so it completely healed!
But... Jeez, what is it with the corys tonight?!
This isn't exactly an emergency, really. But I've never dealt with bacterial (or possibly bacterial) infections before. So... I'm kind of worried, I hope my Sterbais can be cured of whatever this may be. But my hunch is that it's a bacterial infection on his fin.
I've dealt with fin rot and fungus, but never quite something like this...
I've had five Sterbai Corydoras in a ten gallon quarantine tank for exactly two weeks now. Everything was going fine, corys were eating, behaving normally. But tonight, while observing them, I noticed one cory had a white flake/scale on his left pectoral fin. I netted him and placed him in a little cup for closer observation. I doesn't appear to be fungus, or at least to me it doesn't. I also noticed he had white stringy feces. He's still swimming and behaving fine, he doesn't seem sick or lethargic.
So I let him back into quarantine, did about a 30-40% water change and began dosing some Kanaplex I had leftover. I can't get any pics to show, corys are so difficult to get pics off, even of he did hold still I probably wouldn't be able to pick up the white "thing" on his fin. The other corydoras don't appear to have anything and seem clean. But I'm treating the whole tank just to be sure it doesn't get passed around.
On top of all that, I discovered one of my albino corys in my 55 has a chewed up tail fin! The top part looks like it was bitten and I'm looking at my Pearl gourami as a suspect...
The cory seems fine though, in fact he doesn't seem to mind I guess. This ha happened before where a cory has a damaged tail fin, but within a week or so it completely healed!
But... Jeez, what is it with the corys tonight?!
This isn't exactly an emergency, really. But I've never dealt with bacterial (or possibly bacterial) infections before. So... I'm kind of worried, I hope my Sterbais can be cured of whatever this may be. But my hunch is that it's a bacterial infection on his fin.
I've dealt with fin rot and fungus, but never quite something like this...
