Sick catfish

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ptd434

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I have a 50 gallon tank with 1 dwarf gourmai 2 blue rams 3 sword tails 4 otos and it had 6 catfish. One catfish reecently died and two more look sick. The catfish were laying aorund all day staying in one spot and they also lost their color. I move the other two catifish to my quarentine tank and now they are not eating. None of the other fish seem sick besides the catfish, they all seem perfectly healthy.

Here are some things that may be helpful
Nitrates: 10
Nitrites:0
pH:6.7
Ammonia levels are safe and the tank is cycled

Does anyone have any idea on what the disease may be or what i should do.
By the way they are cory catfish
 
My cory palateus are sick as well....

I need the same assistance!

One of my cats died and another is staying at the top of the tank but is definitely not dead, he can swim when he wants too becuase I have watched him closely. I had recently (a week ago) put 2 gouramis in the tank but I returned them when the first cat died, thinking maybe the corys were freaked/stressed out.

Now with the gouramis gone, the cats are still acting funny.

PH is 6.0
Ammonia was tested and is neutral (low)
nitrates and nitrites all tested neutral
water temp is around 78.

My tank has 6 cory palateus, 4 neon, 2 red phantom tetras, and 4 glowlight tetras. It's a 10 gallon tank.

I vaccuum the rocks when I do water changes, and I change the water regularly. I use stresscoat during water changes.

Hope to hear from anyone soon!

HELP!

- Jason
 
Describing ammonia levels as "safe" or "neutral" is not helpful.
 
To add on to what has been said:

If your testing supplies allow, you need to give us a more accurate number for your ammonia.
Also, if either of you could get pictures and/or describe your fish's symptoms, that would be helpful.

Were any of these fish recent additions? did you introduce anything new to the tank, like fish, snails, plants?

I would suggest, in addition to the above, doing a water change at least. You may need to medicate, but we're going to have to find out what is wrong first.


Good luck!

B.W.
 
I'm not sure, but I'm willing to bet both of you cycled your tanks w/ Corys...?

Corys are a very poor species to use in a fish-cycle (I know I am to blame myself). They may 'survive' per say, but they do NOT do well, and they become very stressed and susceptable to other illnesses. My albino acted MUCH in the same way, after surviving the tank cycle and even lived 2 weeks beyond, but there was no saving him... :( He failed to eat, became very lethargic, and in the end died of unknown casues?

As to Ammonia - If you have ANY your tank is either not cycled or is very new is going through a mini-cycle. Either way it will just further your Cory's conditions and cannot be 'safe' or 'neutral'. Any ammonia is bad; we tolerate some Ammonia (under 0.25) for purposes of cycling b/c that is generally the limits that some of the more hardy fish can tolerate in order to culture your bacteria. However, even this has long-term and perminent deterimental effects on even the hardiest of fish.
 
corycats acting weird.....help!

My ammonia tested at the lowest level on the card....(the fish store did my water test.) I also us Ammolock by API (every 7-10 days I put a bit in just in case, but I do water changes reularly and I just changed my filter and vaccuumed the rocks in a few places.). Also, last week I used melafix and pimafix when I noticed a white spot on one of my corys' gills.

As I mentioned in my last posting, all this funkiness started when I added two turquoise gourami's, but I traded them back to the store this past Saturday. I am hoping that in the next few days I will see a change in my corys condition.

My tank currently has: 4 glowlight tetras, 4 neon tetras, 2 red phantom tetras, and 6 corycats (palateus) one which is barely moving and one which seems to be "breathing" heavy, I say breathing b/c that is what it looks like to me. It looks like he's panting.

I just tested my ph and it is 6.0 (which I think is low, but in my research it says cories like a ph of 5.8 to 6.4)

Hope this info might assist others in helping me!

Thank you.

- Jason
 
If you have a cycled tank, the ammonia lock is not needed.

What is causing ur pH to be so low? Is that just from ur tap? Regardless, as long as ur pH is Stable, that should not be the issue.

non of the other fish are experiencing or developing any similar symptoms or other signs of distress?
 
no, all of the other fish seem fine. The tap water ph is 6.8-7.0. I don't know why my ph is so low, but I am adding a few drops of ph-up every day (less then they recommend) so I can slowly raise the ph to like a 6.6.
 
do not i repeat do not use ph-up at all, a ph level of 6.0 is fine, no need to raise, test your tap water ph after having it bubbled with an airstone overnight and then test, DO NOT USE PH UP
 
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