Hi this is my first post on the forum, I didn’t see the option to add a description so here goes:
Our tank is 5-6 years old and we have some platys, Cory Doras and dwarf chain loaches.
the test strip image i posted is likely not entirely accurate, the bottle is a little old. We have added prime to help with potential nitrate/nitrate elevation and prior tests showed very low pH so we buffered.
we started treating with ich-x 3 nights ago. Only one platy is visibly affected. We have had a 2 die over the last month, one had scales puffed out so I suspect it was dropsy. The affected platy is one of our oldest and biggest, I think we’ve had it about 2 years.
we have had Cory Doras for many years, most of the time we’ve had our tank, and we have lost some over the years but they have been pretty hearty, and showed no issues until I noticed two bumps on one of their heads 2 days ago, and yesterday one died :,(. They like to hide so photos aren’t great, the photos i think might be different individuals, and look more like a flat white spot. I have seen at least one of our corys with two rounded bumps that are the color of their scales.
our tank is not heavily stocked, we have about a dozen fish, many plants, a large wood item as decor and lots of rocks but we haven’t changed anything recently.
thanks for having me on here, any clues about what our fish might be dealing with would be appreciated.
Sometimes the Platy seems to have less white areas so i sometimes think the ich-x is helping but other times it looks about the same. She did have one eye that seemed impacted yesterday-it looked like it had a whitish film- but the eye looks basically normal today. The white areas that look like they are coming out of her scales look a lot different from the white dots in that were shown as Ich in one of Cory’s videos.
