Help!! Massively bloated Cory!

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Hi, my Aquasky has just pinged on after a couple of days of not working at all. I've just seen that one of my Cory's - it was the largest one and has been in the tank for quite a while - is hugely bloated. It's almost like it is sitting on some sort of cushion like a hovercraft... 😳 it's either an orange or gold laser, not that you can see that from the pics. I also can't see well whether it's pine coning or not.

It still seems to be swimming about ok, and snaffling about for food but what is wrong with it and what can I do?? Anyone know?

The other Cory's seem fine as do the rest if the fish.

Any ideas? Stills are a bit blurry, when I tried to take a video of it, it darted off....

Thank you

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Looks like a blockage or a fluid build up. You could try a bactericide, or garlic, or live daphnia…
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I would certainly starve for a couple of days as well as what @black ghost said. ;)
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Thanks @black ghost and @plankton. I'll starve the tank for a couple of days, assuming that won't be harmful for the other fish. Stupid Aquasky not working again today so I can't really see anything in the tank at all to see how it's doing.
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So there is no improvement or change in the Cory after having starved the tank for a couple of days. I'm not sure it doesn't look worse now than it did on Tues. It's still swimming OK but looks just so bloated still.

The other fish still look fine.

It's still swimming quite fast and with the tank decor etc I'm not convinced I could catch it very easily. Not sure what to do at this point?

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Are there any males in with her?
Colder water change and get them to spawn..... ;)
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@plankton haven't a clue, I have a group of 8 in total but no idea of the sexes. This one was left from a previous group and is much larger than the others.

I did a water change Tues but could do another small one with cooler water today... Aquasky ok again at the moment so at least it cam see what's going on.
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Just run the aquasky on manual mode and use a plug-in timer 😁
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fr499y wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 13:21 pm Just run the aquasky on manual mode and use a plug-in timer 😁
I've been doing that for 12 months, but unfortunately it is now only working about half the time when plugged in and switched on manually. ... The light hasn't worked with the app since this time last year, really. I was hoping to go to after Xmas before shelling out for a new one. Touch wood it has been OK the last couple of days.
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ah shame that :(
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