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Mystery Cory cat deaths?

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#1 ·
So yesterday i come home and feed the fish as i usually do (3 neon tetra, 3 glowlight tetra, and two peppered cories) they are all acting normal as they normally do no signs of the tank being dirty or anything. I ran out to run a few errands and i come back to my cories either not swimming at all in a vertical position against the sides of the tank or swimming upside down and falling to the bottom. Then I woke up this morning to find both of them dead?? I did notice some like white fuzz on the newer cories barbels and fins. the 2nd cory was added just a few days ago from petsmart im starting to think he was sick when I got him. Any input would really help
 
#2 ·
The fungus you saw could have been before or after death. This is why I highly recommend a quarantine tank before adding any new fishes as you can wipe out every fish you own with a dollar fish. How long has your tank been set up? Do you know you ammonia, nitrite, nitrate readings? How many gallons is your tank?

Cories also need a school I think 5 minimum, you can check this out in the profile section at the top of the page.
 
#3 ·
The fungus you saw could have been before or after death. This is why I highly recommend a quarantine tank before adding any new fishes as you can wipe out every fish you own with a dollar fish. How long has your tank been set up? Do you know you ammonia, nitrite, nitrate readings? How many gallons is your tank?
The fungus was before death and even more after. Im leaning toward Ich.

Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0

Its a 10 gallon tank and it has been set up for a little over three months it has two kyoto plants, a java fern, a crested tropica fern, and a moneywort plant. I got home tonight and all the fish were dead :( and the water is very cloudy. I removed all the fish and turned up the heat as per byrons post in another Ich thread. I also ordered coppersafe. This all started shortly after i added another peppered cory catfish from petsmart.
 
#4 ·
Sorry to hear that.

Ich looks like the fish have been sprinkled with a salt shaker.

I do not know right off if coppersafe is safe for use with live plants you may want to check that.

If the tank is completely fish less you can just go with the heat and time method. I believe ich can only live without a host for a few days, 3 maybe?
 
#9 ·
I've been doing some reading it seems like there are a lot of mixed reviews on exactly how long it takes to get it out of your tank. The high temps will speed the life cycle but as whether to add new fish in 2 weeks or 6 weeks seems to vary.

I had though it was only a week or so but after this research I'm not sure.
 
#11 ·
What I'm going to do is remove the plants and put them in a bucket with some sand and just lower the dosage of the cooperate for the plants or i could just put new water in the bucket and hope for the best. As far as the tank goes I'm just going to wait it out and treat with coppersafe/heat
 
#14 ·
Their color faded. The vals swords the rooted ones java firm moss and anubias was fine
It wrecked my ancaris and basically turned those to leafless stems but I trimmed them and they r growing back everything is recovering and I didn't lose hardly any leaves off my vals and swords
 
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