sobersteve323
Aquarium Advice Freak
Hi all.
Short version: New panda Cory looks like it’s struggling, is pale and has trouble staying upright in my display tank. Took it out and placed in my 10 gallon quarantine tank and it’s perking up. The odd part is the quarantine tank is filled with water from the display tank with a mature sponge filter that I store in my display filter. Any ideas what’s going on? Injured during transportation?
Long version: Used to have a moderate-densely planted tank. Had kids and got lazy and removed all the plants except for low light easy ones like Anubias and crypts. As fish died off over the years I never replaced. Finally just had Amano Shrimp and cories left. Kids are older and now I decided to get back into the hobby and got some more cories to start yesterday.
LFS had one corie in stock for a month and 4 new arrivals from this week. Against my better judgement I got talked into putting the “month” Cory directly into my display and the 4 newbies into my QT. I guess I felt safe since I saw the Cory there a week ago and it still looked healthy (along with the other stock in the store) and they quarantined new stock.
The single Cory immediately looked like it was struggling in my display tank and I thought it was just stressed and gave it over night to calm down. Since last night the Cory keeps turning over to its side (both sides, not favoring one). It looked calmer this morning but also more pale and stopped trying right itself. I took it out of the display and tossed it into the QT and it immediately started to perk up and even got some color back. The 4 in the QT looked fine after 24 hours (minus the one guy that got stuck in the plastic bag, face palm).
Any suggestions on what’s going on with the single Cory? Injured in transport?
Random details:
Display tank is mature planted 50 gallon, canister filter. Water test kit expired years ago but I assume the parameters are still “normal” as I’ve still done weekly water changes and no new additions until yesterday. Currently 3 senior cories and 7 Amano Shrimp.
Quarantine tank is 10 gallon with water from display tank, sponge filter from display tank canister.
Both tanks are at room temperature, around 78 degrees in summer (each has a thermometer).
Any suggestions appreciated thanks.
Short version: New panda Cory looks like it’s struggling, is pale and has trouble staying upright in my display tank. Took it out and placed in my 10 gallon quarantine tank and it’s perking up. The odd part is the quarantine tank is filled with water from the display tank with a mature sponge filter that I store in my display filter. Any ideas what’s going on? Injured during transportation?
Long version: Used to have a moderate-densely planted tank. Had kids and got lazy and removed all the plants except for low light easy ones like Anubias and crypts. As fish died off over the years I never replaced. Finally just had Amano Shrimp and cories left. Kids are older and now I decided to get back into the hobby and got some more cories to start yesterday.
LFS had one corie in stock for a month and 4 new arrivals from this week. Against my better judgement I got talked into putting the “month” Cory directly into my display and the 4 newbies into my QT. I guess I felt safe since I saw the Cory there a week ago and it still looked healthy (along with the other stock in the store) and they quarantined new stock.
The single Cory immediately looked like it was struggling in my display tank and I thought it was just stressed and gave it over night to calm down. Since last night the Cory keeps turning over to its side (both sides, not favoring one). It looked calmer this morning but also more pale and stopped trying right itself. I took it out of the display and tossed it into the QT and it immediately started to perk up and even got some color back. The 4 in the QT looked fine after 24 hours (minus the one guy that got stuck in the plastic bag, face palm).
Any suggestions on what’s going on with the single Cory? Injured in transport?
Random details:
Display tank is mature planted 50 gallon, canister filter. Water test kit expired years ago but I assume the parameters are still “normal” as I’ve still done weekly water changes and no new additions until yesterday. Currently 3 senior cories and 7 Amano Shrimp.
Quarantine tank is 10 gallon with water from display tank, sponge filter from display tank canister.
Both tanks are at room temperature, around 78 degrees in summer (each has a thermometer).
Any suggestions appreciated thanks.