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This is my parents betta that I am currently making a bigger and better tank for. I noticed this grayish patch on his side that kind of protrudes out. Is this some sort of fungal infection, and what can I do to treat it? I know he doesn’t look the best, but I was hoping putting him in an actual and better tank would fix most of the problems itself. I tested the water he’s in and it said 0 ammonia and nitrites but around 20 ppm nitrates. I’m worried this is a problem that a better tank with better water quality wouldn’t be able to fix on its own.

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I recently removed the rotting bed of plants you can see right in the middle of my tank, and it spiked the ammonia to 0.25/0.5 ppm after doing a water test with a liquid test kit. I did a 50% water change with prime and added an extra dose of prime after, but when I tested the water again the ammonia was still at the same level. I currently have pygmy corys and shrimp in this tank, and I’m worried what the ammonia spike will do to them. Should I just wait a day before testing again, or is there anything else I can do right now to lower ammonia? The tank was cycled for a month before I added any fish or shrimp.

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I got this batch of Pygmy corys a week and a half ago and they’ve seemed to have settled in by now. They’re all displaying normal behaviors like being active, foraging in the sand, and just loafing around, but they all don’t seem to be very colored up as they seem to be this kinda paleish beige color, the black line across their bodies don’t seem to be very dark, and they don’t seem very silver as they do in pictures online. I’d assume it’s the color of my sand or my lighting, but in the 3rd picture is a previous batch of corys in the same tank that unfortunately didn’t make it.

Do they need more time to settle in, or does this batch just have different genetics or something?

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I got a group of 6 Pygmy’s for my cycled tank and they all did fine the day I put them in (floated and slowly acclimated with spoonfuls of tank water over an hour). The next morning I found one dead, so I got another one to replace it and another Pygmy ended up dead the next morning, and one of them now has this weird tannish opaque dorsal fin that none of the other ones have. He’s also a little lethargic and swims a little odd. I tested my water and ammonia and nitrites came up 0, and nitrates came up 5 ppm. However, my pH is 8 and my hardness is 18 dGH, but I read that they could adapt to live in harder water conditions. Does anyone know what’s going wrong and what I could do to help the sick looking one?

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EDIT: Just found and took out a damselfly/dragonfly nymph from the water. Hopefully that solves it

I added 6 Pygmy corys to my tank yesterday, and one unfortunately died overnight. The dead one had a red gill like the one in the photo, but the one in the photo is still living, although he’s a little lethargic and isn’t shoaling with the other 4 who are acting and look normal. Does anyone know what this is/what killed the other fish and what I can do to save this one with a red gill? Tank is cycled and ammonia and nitrites are 0, and nitrates are 5 ppm.

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Any ideas on how to improve this tank for a betta and maybe some corys?

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It looks like a rhizome, but I also see some roots at the bottom. Thanks in advance