Help! What's On My Cory's Face??

I noticed a white patch on my little cory's face later in the day when I first got it a few days ago. It looks like it's gotten a little spongier since I first saw it. It was flat and texture-less when I first saw it. Any idea how to fix this?

 

The substrate is culprit in my opinion.
It damaged its nose scavaging for food in it and got a.secundairy fungal infection.
Esha 2000 probably will do the job.

 

DoubleDutch Esha 2000 is European only. I had to look it up.

It might be good to give an idea of the active ingredients, as there are sure to be versions of it under other names in other places.

 

DoubleDutch Esha 2000 is European only. I had to look it up.

It might be good to give an idea of the active ingredients, as there are sure to be versions of it under other names in other places.

I know NB. It is even Dutch but recently heared it was available in te UK and US.
But maybe not quite as often as I thought.
If available please buy (for our economy) hahaha.

 

They all seem to be in the UK. I live in the US, haha. Is there something else that would help the fish?

EDIT: I seems the delivery for some I found form the UK is Aug 28 – Sep 8. Is that too long to wait?

EDIT : Here are the ingredients. I'm looking on my own, but if anyone knows off hand something that could substitute, please let me know!
ESHA 2000 (UK) - INGRED: 6.3 mg ethacridine lactate, (AKA: Rivanol, an antibacterial acridine, sometimes used to treat shigella.) 1 mg proflavin, an acridineclosely related to acriflavin and used for protozoans (velvet), gram positive bacteria, and fungus. 3.2 mg Copper ++ - Treats: protozoans (ich and velvet).

 

Aww, poor little guy.

A water change is one quick thing you can do to help him.

What size tank do you have? And have you been able to check the tank's water chemistry (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate)?

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He's in a little 2.5, which I know is too small. I'm hoping to get them into a bigger one soon, around 10g.

And I haven't yet! They're been in there for not even a week, as they're pretty new. I do have a testing kit, though! Do I go off of the chart it came with, or do corys have ideal number it should be at?

 

Oh good! Yes, you can use the chart from the testing kit. The 3 levels that you test in the water -- ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate -- mean the same for all freshwater fish.

These three levels comprise the nitrogen cycle. In a cycled tank, the numbers should read:
Ammonia, 0 ppm
Nitrite, 0 ppm
Nitrate, less than 20 ppm

 

Ok, now it looks like there's a hole in his face!! What do I do!? Will he be ok!?

 

DoubleDutch Esha 2000 is European only. I had to look it up.

It might be good to give an idea of the active ingredients, as there are sure to be versions of it under other names in other places.

I usually just suggest eSHa 2000 for people in the UK. Ingredients are listed below,
ESHA 2000 (UK) - INGRE 6.3 mg ethacridine lactate, (AKA: Rivanol, an antibacterial acridine, sometimes used to treat shigella.) 1 mg proflavin, an acridine closely related to acriflavin and used for protozoans (velvet), gram positive bacteria, and fungus. 3.2 mg Copper ++ - Treats: protozoans (ich and velvet). Note: Effective against parasites, but often toxic to fish, espceially in soft water. 0.26 mg methyl orange - a multifunctional product.
If Dutch thinks it's fungus, I'm trying to find something with just acriflavine in it. API Fungus Cure has malachite green in it as well. So I'm still looking.

 

I would do a 30 minute bath in methylene blue (1/2 teaspoon for 2.5 gallons). This is done in a separate container. Try to keep the container away from air vent etc, the water will cool fast. Methylene blue will stain everything so take care.

 

Poor guy. Hope he pulls through. Also, I know you say you want to upgrade to a bigger tank, but a 10 gallon isn't large enough. Cories need a 20 gallon minimum. Do you know when you can upgrade? If it's not soon I would recommend either getting a plastic sterilite tub for now, or returning the cories and waiting to get more until you have the tank set up and cycled. Also, those rocks in the tank are waaaayyyyy too big. They do best in sand, but at the very least they need regular aquarium gravel, although gravel can still damage their barbels and sometimes cause infection. Have you tested the water yet? I'm betting since the tank is so small and you have multiple cories in there that the ammonia is pretty high.