Help! Albino Cory sternly twitching to the side?
A little under two weeks ago, I bought three albino corys and they were doing fine for the day I be with them. The next day I have to go camping for school and departed my mum to feed the fish. I think she may have over-fed them a bit, but since afterwards I've done regular (daily) water changes and they were fine for the week. Today as I come home from school I noticed one be twitching violently to the side and seemed to have trouble swimming. Another be was lying on its side like it was unresponsive; it gave me quite a fright, but after prodding it, it shot up. After that, the last Cory (the biggest one) also started twitching!!
Any accepted wisdom? Help!! I really like my fish!!
PS My tank has one plant contained by it and three other healthy zebra danios in it. my heater is set to 25 degree Celsius and I swirled the rubbish under the gravel yesterday, but it wasn't a problem last time. When I get the corys all my levels were fine, but I haven't checked them within a week. I'm going this Sunday to the fish shop to check.
Answers: It sounds like the one not moving much has a sickness that stiffens the fins.Sorry to say there's not much you can do for it.I use to work next to fish and I never did find a way to save them when it happens.But it mi
ghat be swim bladders.People told me that putting a pea within the water helps and won't hurt the other fish in the container.
What size tank, how many total fish and what all kind of fish do you have? Do you use a gravel vacuum when you do water changes to remove uneaten food and excess from the water? How much water are you changing on a each day basis? If you change water on a on a daily basis basis, you should not normally be changing more than 10% or so. Otherwise contained by a normal healthy tank you requirement to change 25% weekly. When there are problems, knowing the problems determines how much to change and how repeatedly you need to change water. When you start notice problems with your fish, you can't afford to wait 3-4 days to test your dampen. I would recommend having it checked before Sunday. You may not have fish not here by Sunday if your water quality is that out of set off. Any time you add new fish to a tank it starts messing near your water quality. There's more waste, possibly more uneaten food until you acquire a good idea of how much more you need to nurture, and things like that. If your tank was already on the borderline of individual too crowded, adding just one fish can really mess things up. I'm not saying to be exact what happened because there aren't enough details nearly your tank provided. If you have a reservoir you should really have the things you need to check your own water at domestic also. This is even more important if it is a fairly topical hobby for you or a newer tank. Just some things to consider, but you might want to edit with more info so you may be capable of get some good sound warning or just post a whole new grill with more info. Good luck and hope this help you some!
