Hi I am new here, need help, sick Cory

[merebreeze]

Hi everyone, I am new to this site. I just found it trying to find some information about Albino Cory. One of my 3 cories is sick, it turned bright white, was staying close to the surface for last 3 days and this morning I noticed white fuzzy spot on its tail. I noticed that my other 2 cories move strange today, looks like they want to shake something off.

My tank is 12 gallon Eclipse, 3 stage filtration w/bio wheel, real plants, river gravel, set up for 2 months, other tank mates: 1 dwarf gourami, 1 blodfin tetra, 3 apple snails, 2 ghost shrimp.

Water parameters:

Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate-20
PH-7.2
KH-120
GH-25

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[andywoolloo]

is it like puffy cotton coming out?

can you post a pic? have you checked on line under columnaris to see if it's that? sounds definitely fungal though.

[merebreeze]

Cory died:(. I did look like columnaris, but it was too late. Now my other 2 cories acting letargic and one of them is trying to scratch himself against gravel. It is albino cory, I can't see anything on the skin. Is it ich?

[MatsP]

Could be early stages of ich, but it sounds more like a bacterial or fungal infection of some sort. There are medications that are both antibacterial and antifungal. However, check with the shop that the medication is OK for "scale-less fish" (which, despite their look of the "armour", Corys are [the armour is under the skin, scales are on the outside of the skin]).

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Mats

[andywoolloo]

scratching against things sounds like velvet.Maybe they had multiple things? If you shine a flashlght on them are they shiny, like dipped in gold dust?

sorry you lost one. I hope it wasn't columnaris.