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One of my Cory catfish looks to have an injury, not sure how it happened. Any advice on treatment?

I rinsed everything except the bio media. All the filter pads were rinsed and all the parts and pieces. I think the ammonia must be coming from the bio media.

So I have been struggling for a while after having to replace my tank that was damaged in an earthquake. See this thread for background here. After getting a new batch of guppies when I thought things were fine, I started losing them again. I decided to go to my LFS for some advice and had...

So all my guppies died but I kept doing water changes. For a week I had no losses of the rest of my stock, 5 Cardinal Tetras, 5 Ruby Tetras, 7 Corydoras, 1 Moonlight Gourami and 1 BN Pleco. I also have several nerite snails and a mystery snail. Other than the tetras hiding a lot, which I take...

It is now, been 0 Ammonia and 0 Nitrites since last Saturday. I've tested everyday. But like I said above, it wasn't quite cycled when I put them in. Not till I got the sponge filter put in there. But I was dosing Prime to neutralize the small amounts of ammonia and Nitrites that were in there.

I've had ich before, and I didn't see any signs of it on the guppies.

It's a 54 gallon Corner tank. But I'm currently also fighting some issue where all my guppies died off after a tank change so I am waiting a bit before getting more fish. Other thread

Seems crazy to me to have guppies dying but Corys happy enough to be spawning. But that seems to be what is happening.

I don't know if I have anything that will eat them, Cardinal Tetras, Corys, moonlight gourami and a BN Pleco. I'll probably need to just remove em.

From what I've read about bladder snails, is it likely already too late? Has it already laid eggs in there? I got the plants quite a while ago and I only just found this guy a week ago.

Figures, I was hoping for something else I guess. My daughter (3 1/2 years) fell in love with her 'Baby Snail' as soon as she saw it in the tank. Now she searches for it every night =)

Well all my guppies died. I'm continuing to do water changes but all my other fish seem to be happy. Other than the tetras hiding more than usual. I'm also getting eggs on the glass, do those look like Corydora eggs? Or are they snail eggs? I have Nerites and one hitchhiker I've not yet...

We got this snail as a hitchhiker on some plants we purchased a while ago. When I first found him he was tiny, maybe 1/4 inch. In the 10 days since, he's tripled in size.

I'll have to do another test but it comes out on the hard side on the test strips between 120 and 180. Been a while since I did it with the liquid test kit to get an exact result. Would lower hardness stress the guppies out enough to kill them so fast?

Unlikely, the water has been tested by the municipality and deemed safe. I did test it though and it comes back the same as before. Trace of nitrates, 7.4 pH and fairly hard (It is glacier water). On top of all that they lived in a 20 gallon for several weeks after using the same water for...

Any snails in there? They look a bit like snail eggs.

Ok thanks. It's been tearing me up thinking I must have done something and I was killing my fish. But I couldn't figure out what could possibly have gone wrong. Hopefully I can save some of the guppies otherwise I'm gonna have a hard time figuring out if it is safe to restock them. I'll...

I did a 7 day water test then emptied that water but I did not scrub it clean. I didn't even think it was something that I might need to do.

We recently had an earthquake that cracked my 54 gallon corner tank. I was able to save almost all my fish and they lived in a cramped 20 gallon for a few weeks till I could get a replacement 54 gallon tank. Last week I finally got the new tank setup. I used Tetra safe start, Seachem...

When I got home last night I tested and I was under .25 ppm Ammonia and a trace of Nitrite, So I dosed Prime, Stability and then moved the fish and the sponge filter. So far so good, I'll keep testing everyday and dosing prime and stability.