New to posting in this forum - lurking around for a year picking up tips. Started with one tank - and now due to the info provided on this site i have seven tanks filled with Cory cats (panda, green aeneus, similis, sands', burgess, leopard) and a tank with LDA08.
Here is some background - I have a group of 4 adult Pandas (3 females and one male) and 4 of their offspring in a 20 gallon planted tank (tankmates are harlequin rasboras, cardinal tetras, and cherry shrimp). The adults have been in the tank for one year. The water parameters are Ammonia = 0, Nitrite = 0, and Nitrate 5 to 15 ppm(max). pH 7.5, temp = 75F. Weekly 40-50% water changes. They have been breeding regularly since February of this year except for 2 hot months in the summer.
About a week ago one of the females was spawning and I noticed she looked quite a bit skinnier than usual. The other 2 females remain quite plump. I also noticed that she did not produce as many eggs a usual and she seemed to be "trying" to deposit eggs on leaves without having any in her fins. Since this last event she has not eaten well and her belly is concave looking and she is swimming up and down the glass a lot. No other obvious signs of problems. She seems kind of frantic - like all of the females do the day before they lay eggs. But it has been for over a week now.
Her eating has been sparse at best during this period - I would say she has lost 15% of her size and has the cross-section of the male now.
Any ideas?
Thank you in advance
Regards
FFG
Skinny Panda
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