Rob

I'm looking for some advice on what could be infecting my betta, I do regular water changes and the parameters are spot on. The symptoms are scales missing around the head and top of the body, his find aren't looking good either. He's been lethargic and hasn't been eating very well at all the past few days. Now I did have three Cory Cats all just up and die on me month or two ago and I've been doing consistent water changes ever since so I don't think that could be related but I'm by no means an expert. My plans are to move the Pleco I have to the hospital tank since they don't do well with salt and do salt treatments with my main tank for a few weeks to try and save my Betta, but if anyone has better advice I'm always open to it.

I've had nothing but plastic plants since I got into aquariums but after watching the co-op youtube channel enough I decided I just had to have some live plants in my tank, went with the Java Fern to start and I really love how it turned out, it's really breathed new life into my tank.

Thanks for all the replies everyone, I've been learning a lot about all this stuff lately and this has been a big help.

Ah sorry I should have added more info lol the tank is a 10 gallon and I added one tablespoon of aquarium salt to it,

I have a 10 gallon, I started out with 4, one was DOA the very next day and since then the other three have been fine until their recent sickness and death of course so I'm left with 1 now. It's been about a month of having them, I didn't administer any worming meds because I didn't realize I should do that to be honest lol. I've been feeding them Tetra shrimp wafers for catfish and loaches, I feed my betta that lives in the same tank the Hikari Betta Bio-Gold Baby Pellets. I watched your video about aquarium salt so I ran out to pets mart that night and grabbed some, then I moved the cory that was showing symptoms to the hospital tank and dosed it with the salt, he seemed to be doing better within two days but then was just dead one morning, Then my oldest cory died with no symptoms so I decided to just dose the community tank to be on the safe side and the remaining cory seems to be ok as well as my betta.

I recently had to add some aquarium salt to my tank to weed out bacteria that was making some of my fish sick, I was wondering how many water changes would it take to make the water safe for planting? I just received two Java Ferns I had ordered from the co-op prior to having to use the salt and I heard that salt will kill live plants so I figured it would be best to ask before I go planting them lol.

I've had my first tank about a year now so I'm still a bit new to the hobby, Over the past three days I've had two cory catfish die on me, one was showing signs of what I thought was swim bladder disease because it was swimming erratically and then it would just stop and sink sitting on the bottom for a while on it's side or back, so I moved it to the hospital tank and administered aquarium salt. the next day my smallest cory died overnight so I found it upside down not breathing and unresponsive to touch. Meanwhile the one in the hospital tank seemed to be doing better, it was swimming better and staying upright but then this morning I found it dead as well. My water parameters are good 7.0Ph, ammonia, nitrates, nitrites are 0 or really close to 0. the only thing I've done to the tank recently other than the usual 25% water change is I added a sponge filter from the co-op, a white stone decoration that was rinsed and scrubbed with a brush thoroughly, and a little ceramic elephant decoration. I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing wrong if anything.

Thanks for the advice I'll be hitting petsmart first thing in the morning and pick some up, until then I have him secluded in he hospital tank, Thanks for the advice. Are there any particular brands or names you would recommend me to look for? Also what should the dosage be for a cory catfish, I've read they are very sensitive to salt?

pH Right at 7.0 Nitrates between 20 and 40 ppm Hardness moderately soft Nitrite near 0 Ammonia 0 KH/Buffer Not Sure Water Temperature 75 I have a 10 gallon community tank and one of my corydoras started swimming erratically the other day and now he can't seem to swim upright, he'll swim fast across the tank and then sink and just sit there a while. He's still breathing but is definitely lethargic. After doing a lot of reading I'm fairly sure it is having a swim bladder issue, I'm just not sure if it's a bacterial issue of constipation. I placed some skinned and mashed up peas in the tank as I read that can help with the constipation but this is my first time having something like this happen so any advice would be greatly appreciated. I would have added a photo but I don't have a camera available right now, I can say however there aren't any visible problems from the outside, he isn't bulging or bloated and there are no abnormalities that I can see.