Brookiecooks
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Dec 1, 2021
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Earlier my Albino Corycat (C. Paleatus) passed. It’s been really hard and I’ve heard too many possibilities of what it could be but I need to buy things to be prepared just in case he passed whatever he has onto my other fish. I’m pretty sure fin rot, but I don’t know why his tail turned horribly red overnight. Yes, overnight! The first picture is from Monday, and I thought maybe it was a organ I didn’t know about cause it looked like it was inside of him. He was fine until Monday when he didn’t swim or eat. Parameters are “ideal”, 0 Ammonia, 0 Nitrite, and a little less than 5ppm Nitrate. Temperature is at 77° F. He lived in a 30 gallon tank with 2 other Albino Corycdoras, a Betta (who is extremely docile and I’m absolutely sure has nothing to do with this), 4 Sunkist Shrimp, 2 Nerite Snails, and 1 Mystery Snail. I purchased him a few weeks ago and he has been doing fine except I did buy him with his fin missing. I did my last water change on Sunday, and I do about 30% every Sunday unless I see some reason I need to again. All of the other fish are perfectly fine. As seen in the pictures posted his flesh where his body and tail meet is completely bright red and so is the lining of his tail fin. As well as redness, some of his tail fin and dorsal fin is gone. I added the shrimp, one new corydoras, the mystery snail, and green cabomba on Sunday, but I don’t think this is the reason for his sickness. I got them from a very trusted store and no other fish are affected. Hopefully someone here can help me cause this is really my last resort :/ thank you to anyone in advance.
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