Dying cory with caved in belly! Help!

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mandy2936

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OK so barely time to explain:

20g tank with 4 male guppies, 5 julii cories, and 6 neon tetras. previously a dwarf gourami who died of unknown causes.

my water paremeters are perfect- except nitrate a tad high, around 20, and KH is 0.

so everyone was doing fine and then today i went down and saw on of my cories upside down on the sand breathing heavily. i saw hs stomach and it COMPLETELY CAVED IN. very bad.
as i got close to the tank he got scared and flipped over. now he just stays in place breathing very heavily and if he tries to swim he gets all messed up and just kinda floats. IM SO UPSET! PLEASE I DONT WANT TO LOSE HIM!

WHAT CAN I DO! I tried so hard to get him to eat. i fed him tons of food and he is so sick that he even lets me basically touch him and point him to his food. he just breathing heavily, NOT eating.

I DONT HAVE A QT TANK- WHAT DO I DO!

PLEASE HELP! I HATE FISH DYING! THIS IS AWFUL! hellppppppppp
 
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