ashleynicole
Aquarium Advice Addict
So out of the 6 cories I started with, I am now down to two.
Background- 29 gallon planted, fully cycled for about a month with seeded sponge filters from angels plus. (never had ammonia or nitrites spikes, had nitrate readings by day 4). Had nitrates up to 20ppm before adding plants. Did a 50% water change today which I do once or twice a week using prime.
Paramaters before water change today , ammonia and Nitrite at zero, nitrate was trace , not even 5ppm. The low nitrates is due to plants.
I lost one cory and one snail during an ich treatement. Then the first time I added seachem Excel I lost a ram and a cory, which I attributed to the fact that I added too much excel. Then 3 days ago I lost a cory and today I lost another cory. Water is pristine, no signs of illness on any other fish. I drop pellets in a few nights a week and algae wafers on alternating nights. I suppose this could just be a bad batch since they all came from the same place? Any other clues as to what could be causing them to randomly drop dead? These are the only losses I've had in this tank. I know to some extent it is inevitable... But this is more than I would expect. The other two look and act normal, active, playful.
Tank mates are 1 bolivian ram, 2 juvenile angels, 6 neon tetras. 4 otos, 1 bristlenose pleco, 1 Apple snail, a few ghost shrimp and some malaysian trumpet snails. I am running two aquaclear 50 HOB filters . I would have expected the otos to be the most sensitive, but they are doing great. It's just the cories and I can't figure it out.
Thanks to anyone who has any clues.
Background- 29 gallon planted, fully cycled for about a month with seeded sponge filters from angels plus. (never had ammonia or nitrites spikes, had nitrate readings by day 4). Had nitrates up to 20ppm before adding plants. Did a 50% water change today which I do once or twice a week using prime.
Paramaters before water change today , ammonia and Nitrite at zero, nitrate was trace , not even 5ppm. The low nitrates is due to plants.
I lost one cory and one snail during an ich treatement. Then the first time I added seachem Excel I lost a ram and a cory, which I attributed to the fact that I added too much excel. Then 3 days ago I lost a cory and today I lost another cory. Water is pristine, no signs of illness on any other fish. I drop pellets in a few nights a week and algae wafers on alternating nights. I suppose this could just be a bad batch since they all came from the same place? Any other clues as to what could be causing them to randomly drop dead? These are the only losses I've had in this tank. I know to some extent it is inevitable... But this is more than I would expect. The other two look and act normal, active, playful.
Tank mates are 1 bolivian ram, 2 juvenile angels, 6 neon tetras. 4 otos, 1 bristlenose pleco, 1 Apple snail, a few ghost shrimp and some malaysian trumpet snails. I am running two aquaclear 50 HOB filters . I would have expected the otos to be the most sensitive, but they are doing great. It's just the cories and I can't figure it out.
Thanks to anyone who has any clues.