Noviceafter2yea
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Thanks everyone. I did a vacuum yesterday of about 60% of the water. I think I sent one of my new cories into upset. This morning I found it listless sort of lying on its side. It had cloudy eye in one and pop eye in the other. The one with pop eye was red.
I removed and treated with 1/10 of tsp of melafix in 1.5 gallons of water for about an hour. I slowly returned him to the main tank in a breeding container to observe. It,was,breathing heavily and it looked as though it had some red near the gill. He lay on the bottom for a while and then jolted a few times and rolled onto its side. I removed it and put it in a clear pretreated container and it died within seconds. Upon looking at it after,death, it seemed to have a yellow bump on its side that was not present when he was alive.
I did a bunch of reading up and the common theme of my research was,not to do too great of a water change at once. It may kick up ammonia levels even though I pretreat with prime and stress guard. He didn't have odd behavior last night.
None of my other cories is displaying abnormal behaviors of bodily changes. One of my bleeding heart tetras looked bloated which was what prompted me to do the water change last night instead of this morning. Prior to the water change I did the smashed pea thing, but the tetra didn't have any.
At least today, the tetra seems less bloated, but not entirely back to normal. Nevertheless, it is swimming around and not isolating.
I always feel guilty when a fish does. I will have to get another soon as there are only 4 now and they need at least another one.
I removed and treated with 1/10 of tsp of melafix in 1.5 gallons of water for about an hour. I slowly returned him to the main tank in a breeding container to observe. It,was,breathing heavily and it looked as though it had some red near the gill. He lay on the bottom for a while and then jolted a few times and rolled onto its side. I removed it and put it in a clear pretreated container and it died within seconds. Upon looking at it after,death, it seemed to have a yellow bump on its side that was not present when he was alive.
I did a bunch of reading up and the common theme of my research was,not to do too great of a water change at once. It may kick up ammonia levels even though I pretreat with prime and stress guard. He didn't have odd behavior last night.
None of my other cories is displaying abnormal behaviors of bodily changes. One of my bleeding heart tetras looked bloated which was what prompted me to do the water change last night instead of this morning. Prior to the water change I did the smashed pea thing, but the tetra didn't have any.
At least today, the tetra seems less bloated, but not entirely back to normal. Nevertheless, it is swimming around and not isolating.
I always feel guilty when a fish does. I will have to get another soon as there are only 4 now and they need at least another one.