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Injuries on the left side.
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Any ideas how I should get him feeling better. Tanja.
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I don't know how he got hurt, however I do have other S. corica. Emma says they are aggressive, so maybe they are. Mine have never shown aggression.Diana wrote:Any idea about how he got hurt? I would place him in a quarantine tank that has some good hiding places. Hurt critters do not want to be out in the open like this.
I have heard Melafix is wonderful, and I have heard it will kill everything. Augh! So I added a couple drops. I was hoping it wouldn't add addition stress. I will keep adding a little.If you trust Melafix, this can discourage the beginnings of bacterial infection. I have heard good and bad about it. I use it, but I suggest you get some more opinions, not just mine.
The only "aggressive" fish in the tank are the other two S. corica, although I have never seen any aggression. I might be able to put him in another tank. I just have to figure out which.Once he has healed will he go back into the same tank?
What are the other fish in this tank? Could one (or more) of them have attacked him?
Decorations aren't sharp. But I guess the plastic plants could be a problem. I have been slowly moving to silk. I have rounded gravel, but I wonder if her he really pushed against it, if it could scrap the scales. These S. corica are not active fish. They usually stay in the same spot. They seldom move.Do you think the injury was because of some sharp decoration? Plastic plants are often the cause of cuts or rips to fins, for example. And fish that are very active can scratch themselves on sharp rocks.
You use no decorations to reduce aggression? They have nothing to fight over.mickthefish wrote:the 10 corica's that i got over a week ago have not
shown any aggresion towards each other, just the occasional shunt.
after reading about the decor more than the fish could be the problem as i found out with the triangularis, no hideout no aggression.
looking at the injuries, i'm not sure that the corica's were to blame.?
Okay, here's a list of fish in the tank. They have been together since September in this tank, although they also lived together in the original tank. All fish are subadults, except the Mollies which will be traded in and the danios which stay at the top.btw what other fish reside in that tank tanja?
Hi Mick,mickthefish wrote:the only fish that could cause that kind of damage imo is the croaker,do you know what species it is or better still a pic of the fish,
that is the only fish that comes out at night and as you said you have not seen an attack on the fish.
mick
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