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Even when you put a lot of time into your tanks, you end up with a sick fish.

My gf was staring at my Cory tank and one of them is on its death bed with pop eye. It honestly felt like one day to the next this happened.

ive already medicated the tank but I'm at a loss on how this happened. Only time I've dealt with pop eye was in cichlids over croaked cichlid tanks that never received water changes. That's definitely not this tank. Maybe the potting soil had something to do with it? I don't know.

My gf grew these corys out from babies at her store. I'd be surprised if this one made it to tomorrow.
 
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ehh said:
Even when you put a lot of time into your tanks, you end up with a sick fish.

My gf was staring at my Cory tank and one of them is on its death bed with pop eye. It honestly felt like one day to the next this happened.

ive already medicated the tank but I'm at a loss on how this happened. Only time I've dealt with pop eye was in cichlids over croaked cichlid tanks that never received water changes. That's definitely not this tank. Maybe the potting soil had something to do with it? I don't know.

My gf grew these corys out from babies at her store. I'd be surprised if this one made it to tomorrow.
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These things happen to humble us, I recently found ammonia in my planted tank; took me totally by surprise as I assumed my sponge was more than adequate. Explains the staghorn algae and dying shrimp too, but just reminds me to keep on top of things more now.

With pop eye I always assumed that was poor water quality, might just be that something has slipped unnoticed, but yeah you're spot on about it being a hard hobby if we get too complacent or blasé
 
sorry to hear, perhaps the potting soil, good a guess as any.
 
I know. I usually blame it on poor water quality too. But I do 40-50% changes weekly. Last thing I was expecting to see in that tank was popeye.

Totally bummed me out. It always really bums me out when I lose a fish. I work pretty hard on my tanks.
 
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I am a firm be-leaver in 90% or fin level every week, if you are only doing 50 percent then you are leaving 50 percent of what ever is accumulating in the tank. about once a month I do back to back, 90% to get rid of what ever that 10% I have not been getting out gets knocked down.
 
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Damn. That sounds like an ideal water change plan but I might have to quit the hobby if I had to do 90 percent on my 220 every week lol
 
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I have a 180, a 145 and a 95.
 
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every sat, start about 8am, done about 11 or 12,
 
I agree that it should be more than 50% per week, its difficult though with sensitive species in terms of temps, minerals etc; but yeah creeping levels of nitrate etc, are a major concern. I'm a fan of small frequent changes, but admittedly that isn't as good for reducing creep
 
When I set it up I was doing really big changes like that. Probably around 70% but once the water started clearing up I brought it down to fifty. The tank is dirted and it's such a pain in the ass replacing that much of the volume is such a pain lol.

But I know now that I keep the floor cleaner that I already was trying to do.

This tank I put the most time into and I get a sick fish. Wth?
 
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