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[T1gger]

Please fill out as much as possible below and give us a description of what is wrong with your fish.

Type of fish: peppered Corydora
Symptoms: thin
Other tank mates:
Tank size / capacity: 160 litre
Type of Food fed: veggie discs
Feeding frequency/amount: daily 4discs between 7 Corydoras
Substrate: Small gravel
Type of filtration: sponge filter
Frequency of filter cleans: new tank (2 months so not yet cleaned). Fish been in for about 3-4weeks
Frequency and % volume of water changes: none as yet tank hasn't had issue with
Last water change: none
PH: 6.5-7 (pH of water from tap went to 8.0 recently so I add pH down before adding to tank
KH:
GH:
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0
Ammonia:0
Phosphate:
Water temp: 26
Medications used recently to date: none
Any recent changes..new fish/filters/power outages etc etc: not that know of

[Westie]

Ammonia nitrite and nitrate are all zero? Are you 100% sure?
My peppered corydora are happy enough, and they get fed sinking algae discs
Not sure why they are skinny. Are there other tank mates?

[Redevilz]

Feed them up And keep up regular water changes then they should come good.

Edited by Redevilz, 07 July 2014 - 10:22 PM.

[Bombshocked]

um. i dont think a tank thats had fish in it for 3-4 weeks can have 0 on all readings id re test it all, wash your vials out with tank water before you test each element

 

shake the hell out of the test bottles for nitrate ammonia and nitrite im talking shake it around like a crackhead tambourine player for 3 minutes

 

unless your fish dont poo theres no way the cycle hasn't started id be looking at getting some prime doing some daily 20% wc's

 

surely these fish have suffered ammonia spike somewhere through the weeks burning up there gills

edit:thats what i would blame for the decline in health

Edited by Sir_Anubias, 07 July 2014 - 11:47 PM.