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Bronze Cory cat looks kind of bloated mostly on one side, and cannot stay at the bottom. It’s currently trying to wedge itself on moss and stuff to stay near the sand. Tank is 75 gallons been running for over a year and a half and has a lot of corydora and some dojo loaches. No indications from the water or any other fish, just this one Cory out of like 40. Any thoughts? He’s hiding in moss and I just noticed today after work so I don’t have a picture yet.

Hi, I’m looking for advice before purchasing some new lighting for my tank. I have a 150 gallon tank (4’x2’x30”) that’s almost 3 feet tall, I want to grow sword plants and jungle Val, nothing hard. What is my best option? I’m thinking just buy a fluval 3.0 and put it next to my existing led that is not so great and run both. Would that be enough? Better options? Thanks.

Yeah, I totally understand people gotta get rid of them, but the buyer should be aware in my opinion at least that they are definitely culls. The “good price” was heavily influenced by the convention almost being over, and he knocked off a little more cash when I told him I don’t need any more angels at home. I looked at the fish (beer in hand) for a moment and said why not. This one might need a helmet 😂

I suppose I have higher standards than some, if I was told they were culls that’s one thing, I agree it’s my fault for buying crappy fish, I just didn’t expect them to be sold! Anyways I am not mad, I am just curious about other shady things people might be doing at these shows.

I attended a freshwater convention this past weekend, in Iowa, and ended up paying for culls! I was able to get some gorgeous gold laser cories, 9 of them for the price my LFS charges for one (50$), along with some good pleco caves and plants. So mostly a good experience, but, I also purchased 2 bags of blue angels for a very low price. Fish are hard to see well in bags, and I guess it’s my fault for assuming most people within the hobby would be on the up and up, so I purchased them without scrutinizing too much. I was given no indication they weren’t any good until I put them into a bare 40 breeder at home to check them out. They all have at least one or multiple genetic faults. Short, wide spread ventral fins, uneven fins, ugly top fin, pointy heads, stripes messed up, one even has a dented in looking head. The convention was fun, and I suppose I have learned not to be so trusting of other hobbyists! Has anyone else experienced a scam or anything like that at a show? Side question, would eating angelfish be harmful to an aperensis (sp?) or jelly catfish? 😉 They look even worse out of the bag in the tank. Very pretty young gold lasers my lady picked up.

Fish are all good after two and a half days, happy to see me 👍

How long have ya’ll let your fish go without food? I’m on short trip right now and they’re all going roughly two days with no one watching them. It’s my first time leaving them like this I’m curious if others leave their fish for a couple days or more at a time? Everything I’ve read says it’s fine, in fact some people would rather not feed the fish for a week than trust someone else to feed.

I bet he could do a number on some algae...

Drop it where you can see it, I’m sure they will find it regardless of where it is, but if you can see it you can watch to make sure it disappears.

Well, even though the gunk mostly fell off of him yesterday, he unfortunately was dead when I got home from work today. Thanks for the input everyone. I think I learned a thing or two from this one.

I manually wiped some of his white fuzziness off yesterday, and now today most of the rest of it fell off through the night. I wouldn’t have done it if he didn’t have such a bad case but I think it helped all the treatment penetrate and fight the infection. He’s easy to touch and handle so it didn’t stress him out too bad. So I think he’s over the climax of this and now has to recover, we’ll see how it goes. The fuzziness was way worse than the last photo showed, before mostly being clear in this photo.

Paraguard claims to help fungal lesions too, I’m going to change the water again today with fresh salt and paraguard you think I should add the API fungus cure on top of that?

He looks really bad. In a tank by himself with salt and paraguard for 2 full days now. So fuzzy I almost want to manually scrub him off but that’s probably not good.the fuzz is long too.

The portion in front of his dorsal fin has healed, and now there’s a portion behind the dorsal that looks bad, and a spot near his tail end that was definitely cut physically unless there’s an illness that can mimic that. I’m starting to believe he hurt himself on lava rock which I’ll remove from the tank. Salt would help disinfect the wounds I imagine and clean water+good food to keep him healthy. No other fish shows any signs of distress and there’s like 30 in there. I wish dojo’s didn’t have to move like total freaks sometimes and potentially hurt themselves. There is a bit of fuzziness in spots, but like I said, the spot in front of his dorsal was ‘fuzzy’ for a day and it’s all healed now, I think it was his skin/slime coat falling off and rebuilding not a fungus. Maybe bacterial. Definitely not ich, I have some experience there, I don’t think it’s hole in the head as the spots are anywhere except near his head. Tomorrow I can see him and add some more photos to show how he is progressing.

Jagged rocks can injure fragile fish, some rocks can adjust your ph, couple things to keep in mind. I’m fairly sure my dojo loach hurt himself on a piece of lava rock I have so I’m going to remove them. Total spaz fish, dojo’s are.