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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    Hello ! just to keep you updated : They are still doing fine, i put one male in a new tank, after the save i was kinda attached to him so i didn't want to rehome him... He now lives in his own tank, doing great. He even eats frozen food now, wich is great (the other one still refuses it and...
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    Okay, found 3 Parotocinclus spilosoma I managed to get one mâle isolated, for now he is in a little breeding box with some leafs and a hide in the aquarium. Wasn't easy, they are fast ! And there is lot of plants and hardscape in my tank, so i did it at night by siphoning one who was near the...
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    So, the taeniacara is still doing great, he shows great colors now, i'm really glad that everything is okay for him now. Since he is not sick anymore, there is way less agrression between the two of them, i will still move him when a tank is ready, and i'm still in search for females. So i'm...
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    So the Taeniacara seems pretty much all good at this point, thanks for the advices. Next WC i'm probably going to move him in another tank since this is 2 males. But the last Oto is dead, the 3 of them (1 was in a separate tank but they were quanrantained in the same tank and i dont use same...
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    Yeah and he is not the dominant one, maybe stress triggered the symptoms ? I'll look for a female but it's gonna be challenging
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    Hi, so the candidi is still doing good, there is still some spots on him but less and less, still eating like a pig. But, the oto is dead, treating him didn't help, and an other on in antoher tank died with the same stuff on his skin, didn't had time to treat him he looks like he was roting...
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    Picture to show you the evolution :
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    Yeah but common, i already feel sad about a sick fish (i have 8 tanks in total, everything is fine i just have this sick fish but it really impacts my moral, when they are old it's hard to see them go but i can deal with this, here it's wild caught (something i try to avoid but it's hard), i...
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    F*cking hell I can't believe how many videos I watch on YouTube and just see otos in all the tanks and nobody mentioning that or even talk about the losses, they obviously have losses ?? This is the 1st time I have them, it's my 1st south American tank, I'm more in Asia biotopes.. thanks for...
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    Thanks ! I just read that 2 days without food and they can't digest anymore this is real ? Why do we keep selling them then ?
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    I do not worry much about hydras, i had them in all my tanks, including my reef tank, after few weeks they usually just disapear by themselves and never come back, i'll see how it goes
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    I have him for over a month now, he was in a quarantaine tank for 3 weeks an is in this tank since 2 weeks He is quite thin, his mate is much bigger with a fat belly. All i have right now is Esha 2000 and Exit, can this help ? Where can i found green malachite in Europe ?
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    So, quick update : I called the seller to see if he had the same issue with some of them, everything is fine on his side. He is still eating well, and i can definitly see a regression, now it's just visible one one half on the body and les pronounced, BUT i saw an oto with some marks on his...
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    Did a WC, using only RO, added some catappa leaves. Can i boil some alder cones and catappa leaves in RO water then cool it down and use this water to add tanins in the tank ?
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    i defrost (just waiting at ambiant temp), i don't rince (at least Artemias, i do rince bloodworms and other worms, but they have no supplementation, copepods, daphnia, artemias etc... i never rince)
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    For my frozen food i mostly feed Ocean Nutrition Artemias, the one with spirulina and garlic and the enriched one with vitamins and stabilized Vitamin C
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    hi, thanks for the reply Fishes were quanrantained at the store, this is why i buy here he quarantained all the fishes Only GH yes, and it's "pure" RO filtered with resin (0 TDS) Shop owner is pretty confident about the sexing, me, not so sure but it's the 1st time à have them I have...
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    Water temp is 26°C, Ph is around 6 to 6.5 (technical soil and dead bio matter ) The shop where i got them keep them at 25°C and PH 7 for months now and everything is fine Corys are allright if i see something weird i have other tanks to put them in, same for the otos KH is 0, GH 4 so water is...
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    taeniacara candidi sick ? Pale/white scales

    Fish is in since 2 weeks. I don't know how old he is One male one female, tank mates are pygmy corrys (6) and otos (3) Live baby brine shrimps, frozen foods, micro worms etc.. Weekly water change (15%) i use RO water remineralized to GH 4 The tank (fluval flex 15g) : I started to treat the...
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