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I've got some panda cories, and i've had a couple keel over recently. the first 2 showed no signs of any illness, just suddenly dropped off. but the last one i saw struggling to swim, and lying on his side.

Tank details:
20g long. moderately planted, rock caves and driftwood. (plenty of spots to hide)
tankmates. 12 neons, 3 swordtails (2 fem, 1 male) 2 BN
(2.5"
params:
ammo - 0
nitrite - 0
nitrate - 10ppm
PH - 6.8
KH - 5
GH - no test kit.
temp. 25deg C
ok, so here are my current ideas on whats going on, the drift wood went in just before i had my first death, but it has been nearly a month between deaths, and no other fish has died or even shown any signs of illness.
second idea is my stress, my swordtails are rather rough, the male chases anything he can find, and nips at anything he can catch, i dont see him get the pandas too often, but i assume being chased all the time would stress them out.

but what confused me the most is that all my other pandas are still happily doing what they do best, playing around the filter jet, up and down the back glass, and hiding about in the plants together.

Cheers for all your help..

Cynical.

Last edited by cynical at 27-Oct-2005 00:33

Last edited by cynical at 27-Oct-2005 00:33

Panda corys are the weakest of the corys they are very e to bacterial infections, and he definately dosn't sound to good if he's laying to one side, what do his barbels look like, if you could issolate i would use a anti internal bacteria med, plus with panda being sensitive to water quality i maintain my tank twice a week.

Last edited by kitty163 at 27-Oct-2005 16:10

Agreed that panadas are among some of the weakest corys there are....

I lost all my albino over a few months time back in early summer (US summer anyway ) after they'd been in the tank for months-years with no changes to the tank aside from regular maintence.
I had to (unfortunatly) put it down to substrate. The only thing I could think of was that they'd gotten their inquisitive noses in a pocket of anerobic bacteria despite my maintence and malasyian trumpet snails. You mentioned the tank was planted so I'm assuming you dont use sand but how large of a substrate do you have? Long blind shot in the dark I'm sure but there you have it

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my substrate is misc gravel, no sharp edges, but a complete mix on size, from 2mm to pea sized. i think after doing some reading (old posts etc.) i need to step up my cleaning, i was doing less water changes then i should because my plants were keeping nitrate down, now i'm doing more w/c with heavy gravel vac (being planted some areas are harder to get to and will get missed) and dosing flourish nitrogen in small amounts (apparently less harmful to fish because of the types of nitrogen it contains), so with all this in the works i think i should be ok?

just to confirm no one had any problems with them being stressed by other fish before?

Cheers
Cynical