Gillphill83
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
- Joined
- Oct 27, 2011
- Messages
- 38
Since I got my julli corys I noticed after 4 weeks their barbels had gone. Now 1 seems to be missing its mouth!! Looks terrible although he's still eating and swimming about just fine. No red blotches or signs of any white fungus.
The 4 corys were babies and I hoped that maybe barbels would grow back after some time getting used to the sand (coming from store tank with nothing)
I purposely bought JBL black Sandibar sand for my tank in preparation for getting bottom dwellers and thought it was easier to clean. Mordon aquatics advised that this brand was ideal for them. Typically after I got it seems to be contradictory info out there and its too rough. To me I can't tell if its rough or smooth..it feels like sand!! It's all gritty!
I'm also finding it hard to keep clean, the debris seems to stick to the sand and no matter how hard I try stirring it up and vacuuming it never looks clean and within 2 days covered in poo again!
I want my corys to be in perfect shape and certainly with mouths! Do I change the sand to Kids play sand or will I find the same issue? Is it the sand or the Debris? Can the barbels & mouth heal?
My profile details are out of date here's the info:
120l juwel lido (set up for approx 1 year)
Temp 25c
Bogwood and Various live plants (don't know the names?!)
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 20-30ppm
PH 7.5
GH180ppm
KH240ppm
Religious weekly water changes 25% using prime and recently mixing in a bit of RO gradually to try keeping PH down for healthy plants.
3 Sail fin mollie 1 male and 2 female
1 black mollie female
4 white skirt tetra
3 red neon
4 harlequin rasbora
Unknown number of assassin snails
The 4 corys were babies and I hoped that maybe barbels would grow back after some time getting used to the sand (coming from store tank with nothing)
I purposely bought JBL black Sandibar sand for my tank in preparation for getting bottom dwellers and thought it was easier to clean. Mordon aquatics advised that this brand was ideal for them. Typically after I got it seems to be contradictory info out there and its too rough. To me I can't tell if its rough or smooth..it feels like sand!! It's all gritty!
I'm also finding it hard to keep clean, the debris seems to stick to the sand and no matter how hard I try stirring it up and vacuuming it never looks clean and within 2 days covered in poo again!
I want my corys to be in perfect shape and certainly with mouths! Do I change the sand to Kids play sand or will I find the same issue? Is it the sand or the Debris? Can the barbels & mouth heal?
My profile details are out of date here's the info:
120l juwel lido (set up for approx 1 year)
Temp 25c
Bogwood and Various live plants (don't know the names?!)
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 20-30ppm
PH 7.5
GH180ppm
KH240ppm
Religious weekly water changes 25% using prime and recently mixing in a bit of RO gradually to try keeping PH down for healthy plants.
3 Sail fin mollie 1 male and 2 female
1 black mollie female
4 white skirt tetra
3 red neon
4 harlequin rasbora
Unknown number of assassin snails