I've been offline the last month with moving house so here's the update. I went for Sterazin to treat gill flukes and internal worms - there may have been an indication of gill flukes, but wasn't 100% sure. During the 10 day course he stopped 'coughing', his rapid breathing decreased, and around day ...

Okay, trying to look at this again, as he’s still alive and the same. Tank: (From new API kits) Ammonia 0 ppm Nitrites 0 ppm Nitrates 10 ppm pH 7.0 GH 3 KH 4 26C Symptoms: Laying on his side, and difficulty righting himself, but can do so, but spending more time lying on his side than upright. When u ...

I'll give him sand, previously used bogwood and some plants today. I'll look into a parasitic medication

He's the same this morning. Pretty much has been the same over the last week, and has even been worse if you'd consider floating upside down worse than floating onto his side. Just now, he's on his side. Moves about a little on his side, and if he puts in effort he can right himself and stay there ...

I'm going to wait until the morning, but no, he's not doing well. He's not eating, and not moving about as much and just on his side. Last night he was mostly the right way up, but I guess because he's not eating he's no energy anymore to get himself back up. I'm thinking he'll probably die. If I ...

Thanks. I'll see how he does. A few on another forum are telling me they'd euthanise him. I'm going to see how he does a bit longer before taking that step.

Water parameters in the hospital tank are: (Although I'll monitor them, as it's a newly set up tank with some existing filter media and aquarium water) Ammonia - 0ppm Nitrites - 0ppm Nitrates - 5 to 10 ppm pH 7.0 (it's gone up from pH 6.0 last week through water changes, including when setting up ...

He's now in a hospital tank (5" deep - home made sponge air filter, heater) and on an anti-bacteria medication Interpet swim bladder. Also a bit of salt too, but not much due to him being a cory cat. Yesterday he was very much upside down, this evening in the new tank he is much more the right way ...

Here he is with his problem...

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The temperature is at 25C. Some reason even my cold water tank is at 25C - must be the lights and hot weather. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have a tester kit for gh and kh too. He's still the same. He doesn't seem to be dying like I've seen other cory's. He's still go strength to swim about, and still ...

So today he's pretty much the same. Has been spending a bit more time on his side or upside down, and I think he's off his food. Still, when he rights himself and swims about he looks almost fine, with signs of illness (no clamped fins, or loss of colour) except his slightly faster breathing ...

Thanks very much for your help. I'll keep you posted

after a good sized water change, it's at pH 6.5.

I'll keep at eye on it and see how things go. Should be upgrading to a bigger tank within a month.

I've ordered a KH GH test too. What's the best way to help improve things other than water changes? Is sodium bicarbonate okay to use until I can get some crushed coral..?

I've ordered a new test kit, as my API master kit is very out of date. However, the test kit says my tap water pH is 7.5, and the tank is coming up at 6, or under what the chart reads. I'll need to raise the pH levels but is it best to raise them slowly or more quickly with regard to the ill fish? I ...

Is a pH of about 6.5 - 7 good for betta and corys?

Thanks for the update. I think water quality was an issue, especially it being a small tank. We have two corys left, but still a problem: ph 6.0 (or less) Ammonia 0ppm Nitrites 0ppm Nitrates 15 ppm One of the corys has a buoyancy issue. He rest on the bottom, almost fine most the time, but has a ...

We have a now fully cycled 22L (5.8 US gall) that housed one male betta and four false bandit corys (grow up to 1.8"). It is planted, and contains snails. It is a Aqua One AquaNano 30, so is quite small, and has quite a large filter system that takes up a portion of the entire back of the tank. The ...

Thanks I'll stick to the other forum on this topic.

Taken from a few years ago, so they are a bit bigger now. I suspect they are albino channel catfish?

Also, which part of the forum should I post in about them?

Thanks