Sick Cory.Help needed.

Ive had 3 of my sterbai corys in QT over the past few days, Ive treated the tank with Esha2000 and tonight was ready to put them back into the tank. Unfortunately two of them are still displaying signs of the original problem. The original problem indeed was that the fish showed what looked flesh wounds around the flanks of their bodies and in one of the corys towards it eye.

One of the corys is fine and I have put him back into the tank (I know,I know I shouldnt put him in but he is perfect,showing no signs of any markings and the other fish in the tank didnt have any problems either before I removed the Corys.

My concern is with the remaining two corys Ive left in the QT tank. They are still showing signs of the illness. Indeed of the smaller corys there is a nasty flesh type wound on/near its eye.




On the second fish the flesh is bumpy,indeed it even looks like it is jagged and possibly even spikey,in terms of appearance from the skin. The skin also looks quite crumbly in that there are very small pieces (I wouldnt say floating) but flapping a little.Here is the pic of the second fish and notice the raised bumps by its anal fin.



So Im hoping someone here will please be able to help me out on this one. I did find a gourami dead today in the tank,(no warning or anything,was half eaten by the Kulhi loaches when I found it,however I think it was a totally unrelated death,v rare I have deaths in this tank,the gourami was perfect last night and I fear it may perhaps of been the angel fish that attacked it however Ive never seen any major aggression between the two,particularly as the dwarf gourami was a good size).
So can anyone help me out on the cory sitution?

Gavin

Anyone able to help ? PM me if possible as unable to access forum at work!

Have tried Sera Omnipur, hope it does the job, water is gone really green from it!

Gavin the water is gone green from the malachite green in omnipur. It will clear.
Good post. It's unfortunate you got no replies. I have never seen anything like it and am curious myself as to what it is.
Keep us posted.

poor fish looks really sore , hope u found out what it is and cause of disease

best of luck

trish

i have seen this before on newly imported fish. it's like a flesh eating bacterial or even viral infection. dont know best treatment. isolation certainly and if it dos'nt start to subside, euthanasia.

Interesting thing is that neither fish are newly imported and I can't think of any fish that may of bought it into the tank lately either as there have been no new additions to this tank,(some glass shrimp in there now but not before these guys were in QT).
Also the fish are behaving the same as normal,eating fine etc. Day 1 of the Omnipur and the fish are responding ok, will need to give it the 7 days really to see if it works.

Gavin

are any other species affected in the main tank?

Unfortunately I have seen a similar wound around the eye area



I found it on one of my green lasers, thankfully none of the others were affected at the time or since.

I tried Esha and melafix but it deteriorated rapidly over the next 24 hours and I put the fish out of its misery. In my case anyway it looked bacterial, the hole was deep and the flesh around the hole was dead.

I hope you have better luck.


Daragh

Indeed Darragh that does look nasty, mine isnt as nasty yet as there appears to be some fungus also on it which may have it look even more fleshy. Also yours looks close to the eye than mine at present but then again mine isnt as severe I would say at this juncture.In terms of putting them to sleep I will consider it if it continues to eat away at the fish however will give it the full 7 days of treatment before deciding my next course of action. I hope they make it.
As for the other fish in the tank,no problems on any of them.
Gavin

I should have added that I originally thought it was an injury but when I saw the depth and the rate of progress, I knew it wasn't, also despite posting on a few forums, I never did get to the bottom of what it was. Because the green lasers are a very shy fish I did not spot it probably until it was too late. IF you have the same problem, which I am not saying that you do, you may have caught it early enough.


Daragh

The rate of progress on it seems slow, although it may just have halted, which is fine too but it needs to start healing also. Ive an airstone running now too as the meds practically knock the fish out I find in Quarantine tanks unless there is a airstone running in the tank.
Day two tomorrow and I will have another look however I wont remove the fish until 4 or 5 days to get a proper look as they are stressed enough as it is.
They go extremely still for long periods of the day, my gf even had to tap on the tank to check if they are alive, then I was in there earlier and they were bouncing off the wall complety. I must check water parameters tomorrow as I know that Omnipur can be hard on the filter bacteria also.
Gavin

Well Ive had a look again today and it appears that there seems to be an excessive amount of smile coating on the fish's flank and also possible near one of the gills.
Im aware the gills could be suffocated if not acted upon.
Im going to treat with Sera Omnipure again tonight for a week and see if it improves it anybit.
Anyone able to help me out with this Slime disease ?
Again Im only guessing its a smile disease but I think it may well be that.

Gavin

Anyone ?