Very Sick Bronze Cory

[jollysue]

I have a bronze Cory that showed up with a pop eye condition. It seemed sudden.

No other fish seems to show symptoms.

When I first noticeed it, I read the various articles. There seemed to be several possible causes.

The only treatment I understood, other than clean water, was Maricyn 2. I treated with Maricyn two for a week. The eye stayed poppy. I stopped the Maricyn treatment a day or so ago. Tonight I saw that the cory is septic and his tail fin is ravaged and much of his flesh before the fin is off. I took him out immediately

The later half of him is septic with skin eaten off. All I have is Brandy or ice water. He looks really bad and very sick. He has difficukty swimming.

I am out of Pima/Melafix at the moment. but I will give the cory tank a good treatment of that soon.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I would personally use a 70% dose of primafix and a 40% dose of melafix, i use this combo very often for the majority of fish deseases and it is very effective, i wouldn't personally do a full dose of primafix or melafix as they are very powerful meds and dumping a full dose of either of them into the tank in one go can cause great stress to the fish even though they are there to save the fish. Is the substrate in your tank gravel or sand and do you have a hospital tank at all? What do you feed your cory on average?

 

[jollysue]

Hi Tokis

The tank is 40 usg long, sand substrate, black worm is the staple diet with Hikari and TetraMin tablets several feedings a week.

I euthanized the sick cory. I am almost out of Mela/Pimafix. So I won't start a medication in the tank until I get a new stock of it.

I have 14 tank; many are betta tanks. I have as well hang on quarantine holding tanks, so I can easily put together a small hospital tank quickly--if I can catch the fish.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Sorry about your loss, don't let it dishearten you as there was probably little you could have done to prevent it in the first place- most likely the cory was not born with a strong imune system against bacterial infections and managed to get by in life at the start without bumping into any serious ones until it finally encountered this one, you can use "liquisel" by interpet if you want to help lower the levels of dangerous deseases in the tank or simply do some regular water changes over the next week- hope all goes well for your other fish .

 

[jollysue]

Thanks, Tokis, for your care.

I think liquisel may be a UK thing. I didn't get anything from a search in the USA. I'll do some more frequent water changes.

I've had a long and hard battle with culumnaris in my big tank. Between the hard hitting, repeated, various medications and the tenaciousness of the culumnaris, I have lost many fish. This bronze got sick after two events: I added three cories from the previously infected tank which I wanted to save from the neon specific medication that had been killing off my bottom dwellers and I added a VT Betta boy. Either or both of those two could have affected the cory.

I really hate death and feel a little sickened by the ugly and painful one this guy suffered. The Brandy worked well though. It was quick; he had time for one startled look.

Thanks, again.