aerie
11-30-2010, 8:34 PM
Hi All,
I've got a 10 gallon tank that's been running smoothly for a few months. I had three dwarf frogs and four cories (3 panda and 1 albino). I have a few plants and some ornaments. Two days ago, my dwarf frogs decided to go on a terrestrial adventure in the middle of the night. I woke up to two dried up frogs on the floor. In a bit of panic, I began to lift up the ornaments in the tank and check around the tank, but no frog. Eventually, I found a third dried up frog in my kitchen.
I thought the worse was over, but then I realized that my cories weren't moving in the tank. They looked fine, except for that three had closed their dorsal fins. This is unusual, because my cories are usually hyperactive (day and night), and I have never seen their dorsal fins down before. Since that morning, I sometimes catch them lazily drifting up to the surface to get air and then return back down to sit on the gravel. The albino sometimes swims up and down the side of the cage. They haven't touched their food since the Frog Kamikaze incident.
I do weekly 25% water changes. My ammonia are 0.5 ppm, nitrite = 0ppm, nitrate = 10ppm. My pH has always been high (8.0) but I've been told that it's better to keep the pH stable than to constantly fight with it. Tank temp is about 68 degrees.
Are they just stressed because I was mucking around their tank searching for frogs? Are they sick? If you can help, thank you so much!
I've got a 10 gallon tank that's been running smoothly for a few months. I had three dwarf frogs and four cories (3 panda and 1 albino). I have a few plants and some ornaments. Two days ago, my dwarf frogs decided to go on a terrestrial adventure in the middle of the night. I woke up to two dried up frogs on the floor. In a bit of panic, I began to lift up the ornaments in the tank and check around the tank, but no frog. Eventually, I found a third dried up frog in my kitchen.
I thought the worse was over, but then I realized that my cories weren't moving in the tank. They looked fine, except for that three had closed their dorsal fins. This is unusual, because my cories are usually hyperactive (day and night), and I have never seen their dorsal fins down before. Since that morning, I sometimes catch them lazily drifting up to the surface to get air and then return back down to sit on the gravel. The albino sometimes swims up and down the side of the cage. They haven't touched their food since the Frog Kamikaze incident.
I do weekly 25% water changes. My ammonia are 0.5 ppm, nitrite = 0ppm, nitrate = 10ppm. My pH has always been high (8.0) but I've been told that it's better to keep the pH stable than to constantly fight with it. Tank temp is about 68 degrees.
Are they just stressed because I was mucking around their tank searching for frogs? Are they sick? If you can help, thank you so much!