Message: 1 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:02:54 -0500 From: "Bill Wallace"
<bwallace at mitra_com> Subject: RE: [APD] Corys Not Active To: "aquatic
plants digest" <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
DO AN IMMEDIATE WATER CHANGE. Sorry for yelling, but you will kill
your cories at 0.5 PPM ammonia. Do a 100% water change now, and then
25% water changes every day for the next week, and then 25% changes
ever 3 days after that for another month. It is a nuisance, but
otherwise none of your fish will live with that many fish, unless you
have a ton of plants (which you must not given the ammonia level).
Also, for at least a while, use Amquel or another ammonia removing
dechlorinator. Cories are very active fish, and are a good indicator
that something is wrong with your tank.
Bill
-----Original Message----- From: Jason Hatton
[mailto:romans837 at roadtripseekers_com] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004
11:34 AM To: aquatic-plants at actwin_com Subject: [APD] Corys Not
Active
I just set up my tank.
The tank is about 4 days old and I have 4 mollies, a betta, a bala
shark, and two cory juliis.
The corys don't appear to be moving much and I haven't seen them eat
anything yet. I looked around on the web to see what other people
said about their corys and most said they were pretty active and
always foraging from food.
I am a little concerned about them but, wondering if I really should
be.
The tank as of yesterday had ammonia at .5 ppm pH is still iffy but
my guess is is 7.6. It is sitting on the boundaries of my test kit.
No nitrites yet although I put bio spira in the tank four days ago. I
am surprised nothing is happening yet.