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Thank you—it does remind me of an ulcer. Do you think that adding aquarium salt to the QT tank would be helpful at all?

Tank What is the water volume of the tank? 29 gal How long has the tank been running? since March 2020 Does it have a filter? Yes, Aquaclear 70 + sponge filter Does it have a heater? Yes What is the water temperature? ~78˚F What is the entire stocking of this tank? (Please list all fish and...

Thanks for checking in! We ended up moving him back into our main tank last week, since he seemed fine except for the long/forked barbels. I posted in a corydoras Facebook group, and no one had seen anything like it. Crossing fingers, but it seems like this might just be a weird genetic mutation.

Yep, that seems to be the case, though at most angles it doesn't look quite as dramatic.

That's really what it looks like could be happening, especially now. We got him and his friends in November, and only noticed this at the beginning of March. I've come across a couple of forum posts about corydoras with forked barbels (like this post: forked barbel) but what I have here...

Our cory is still hanging in there, and his barbels are weirder than ever. We're keeping him in the QT tank for now...but truly no idea what is going on with this buddy.

We've moved him to the quarantine tank, where pictures are a lot easier. In the better light, his gills are looking very red, and there are noticeable white/cloudy patches behind them on each side. In the second picture, you can see that the frayed/fluffy end of his lighter whisker looks pink or...

I noticed some weird splitting happening on one Cory’s barbels yesterday, which is kind of alarming! It almost looks like they are fraying, but they are still very long—longer than the other corydoras’ barbels. If anyone has had experience with something like this, I made a thread in the fish...

Here are some better slightly better photos, showing the barbel situation. It almost looks like they are splitting and forking off? Could the barbels be peeling off or fraying somehow? We are going to put him into a quarantine tank, do water changes, and continue to monitor. I can't tell if the...

Tank What is the water volume of the tank? 29 gallon How long has the tank been running? Since March 2020 Does it have a filter? Yes, AquaClear 70 and sponge filter Does it have a heater? Yes What is the water temperature? 78˚F What is the entire stocking of this tank? (Please list all fish and...

It might be too soon to tell, but I've already noticed a difference in my skittish school of Corydoras sterbai after adding a school of harlequin rasboras to the mix. I would also recommend increasing number of corys, as others have said. But it also sounds like sometimes...they're just shy...

We added our school of 9 harlequin rasboras to the tank last night, and while I don't want to jinx the tank, they seem to have brought my corys out of hiding a little! Honestly this is the first time in a while that I've seen all 6 of them whuffling out and about in the front of the tank, and it...

Just to close the loop on this thread, we ended up treating our rasboras for 5 days with Ich-X (and 30% daily WCs), which effectively cleared the infection. The lethargic guppy that I'd noted in my original post, still wasn't looking too great (sunken belly despite feeding regularly) at the end...

Thanks. In the pinned post "How to Administer Ich-X for Beginners," it looks like Hikari Solutions said that Prime was not safe to use, but API Stress Coat and Hikari Ultimate were OK. I am pretty useless when it comes to chemistry, but is this a case of the manufacturer just wanting you to use...

My harlequins had been doing well for the past week—swimming together actively, eating regularly, no more clamped fins—but last night as I was getting ready for bed I noticed some tiny white dots on one of their tail fins. And this morning, I'm noticing those same dots on two more. Dun dun...