Sophia

While I'm waiting for the Doctor to arrive online I thought I would share some photos taken of my pygmy corydora this evening. The background is that at the beginning of the month I noticed this fish swimming differently. While snuffling along for food her rear end and tail would rise as if a balloon attached. When stationary it didn't happen. While said fishy bottom was in the air I noticed her one of her ventral fins was missing and the area red and a bit ruffly, though very hard to see as such a small fish. At the time we thought swim bladder problem plus infection or fin rot. At the time also no other fish appeared infected so either this was a weaker fish or was the one that had been caught in the driftwood tunnel (see thread in signature) and been injured on the way out. Treated fish with Furan for a couple of days but stopped when she appeared to be declining in health. Put her back in with the others where she went back to her usual behaviour, which was feeding, moving about actively and at ease. I thought she would pass away naturally and after that I would treat the tank who needed to be treated anyway by now. So anyway this continued, then about a week and a half ago I moved the cories to their own tank and have been keeping the water clean and trying to condition them for breeding. This afternoon I got home from work and found Bungie (name for bung fish ) listing on her side on the bottom as if dead. Has this fluffy wool attached to a pectoral fin which I recognise as fungus. When you look closely you can see it looks like fuzzy mould like what grows on bread. The base of the fin is red and I can see the classic red veins that also elsewhere. Earlier I thought I could see them but wasn't sure. On trying to catch Bungie it turns out she wasn't dead and swam away but I have caught her and put her in isolation. My plan is to clove oil her to sleep forever as I think she has suffered enough now, or do you think I am overreacting? (I do tend to react dramatically when my pets are ill) . In the sticky on this forum it says that when fin rot has reached the base of the fin it is beyond repair, she has at least one of those that meet that description. later edit - I put her to sleep in the end, sorry if this offends anyone.

hiccups goatee or handlebar mo?

I didn't get a good enough look at him, need more photos please... :smln:

explosion beard or clean shaven?

I love black cats. :love:

that's no Granny, that's Charles :happy1:

Phenacogrammus Yeti or Nessie?

gloves

sun

lala

where's your photo hmmm?

Lambchop

:spop:

jamb

lollypop

I tried to give him a bit of sinking wafer the other day and he was not the slightest bit interested.

Here's my oto Cleaned the whole of the back of the glass except for green spot algae in under a week. Back of tank before Pig-Oto moved in

An interesting turn of events this eve (probably :roll: for you old hats) - was thinking that there was very little current in this tank and was blaming the sponges I used to block up just about every inlet.... mulled over it for a while and thought that I should let my river fish have some river and worry about possible fry getting sucked in later. So I took off the front sponge and then wondered why the filter seemed clean, I expected it to be gunky. Pulled out the inside sponges and found that they were black with silt, squeezed them and they were muddy! Did a water test and no ammonia, nitrite and nitrate 10ppm as usual... obviously full of good bacteria, but not letting much water flow. Had a look at the same set up in my other tank - not silty at all. The only significant difference between the 2 is the silty one has sand, the other has gravel. There was no sand in the silt, just nice silky soft mud. Does anyone know why this happened? :dunno: photo updates Side angle, no tank is not about to tip over. My TheObstacle crypts have decided to melt after being perky for a month, so looking a bit empty around the edges at the moment. Front on Ever hardy shrimp 1 3 of the 4 loaches Left to right – skinny nervous loach, still getting used to new life, doesn’t eat much yet but he is trying. Next is the fattest – hopefully a female, still a little nervous but eats. 3rd along is one of the original 2, is teaching the other how to relax and eat as much as possible. 4th loach off powdering his or her barbels.

lacquer

apple on pork nits or cootoos?

taste cadburys or whittakers?

affinis twisted val or twisted sister?

I didn't see the first part - why did the big sturgeon let him hold him and prod him? Had he been caught and was all worn out?

is that a hammer hanging on the wall above the tank?