Hi everyone,
I have a zebra that became hump backed but he stayed with the others and eat well. Then one day he went to mid tank and stayed there and swim slowly mostly to maintain position. He did not seem to be eating at all. Then one day he was not there, no body laying or floating, just gone. I assume that he died and was eaten before I noticed he was dead. Just now I found one of my Chinese algae eaters, (which by the way only eat algae when juvenal and then become very aggressive) dead at the bottom of the tank. One is left. Yesterday both were eating algae from the side of the glass. The dead one was bloody around the anus area.
Anyone have any ideas what might cause this? Now I have a fish that (I am not sure just what it is, it was with the zebra danios at the fish store and has a long flowing tail like a comet goldfish but is smaller than a zebra - gray in color and looks similar to a zebra danio) is now at the middle of the tank not eating but swims around a little but sometimes sinks to the bottom but shoots up to the middle of the tank again.I must have something wrong with this tank, a 29 gal with 6 Platys and now 1 chinese algae eater and 5 danios and the one small fish with the large flowing tail fin.
1~What type of fish is afflicted? So far only danios and Chinese Algae Eaters. The algae eater was eating algae one night and I found him on the bottom of the tank dead in the AM. Of the platys one of them is humpback but is eating well and swimming with the other fish and one developed a growth on the side of the body. He was caught and placed in the freezer.
2What are your tank parameters (ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, temp, pH)? Please give exact values.
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
Temp 78
pH 7.5
KH 2.5
PO4 6.0 (Better was off the chart)
tap KH 2.5
tap pH 7.9 Over 7.8 but not 8.0 color is a mix of the two test colors
tap PO4 0.5
3~ How large is the tank? 29 gal How long has the tank been set up? 10yrs
4~What type of filtration are you using? Emperor 400
amount of gph if known. 400 but I suspect closer to 350 gph It is cleaned monthly, the mechanical filters which in my case have proven to be biological also cleaned in tank water weekly when I do a 5 gal water change and vacuum the gravel. The mechanical/bio filters changed every 3 months. The carbon is removed from them before replacing as I do not think running carbon all the time is good for the tank. Besides that there is not enough in the blue mech filter to do any good. It depletes itself quickly and starts adding what it removed back to the tank.
5~How many fish are in the tank? 12
What kinds of fish are they and what are their current sizes?
5 danios 1 inch or less
6 red Platys
1 Chinese Algae Eater
6~When is the last time you did a water change and vacuum the gravel?
Tues and this is Thursday so that would no more than 3 days ago.
How often do you do this? Weekly
How much water do you remove at a time? 5 - 7 gal
7~How long have you had the fish? Danios and Platys about 6 months
the Chinese Algae Eaters 10 days
If the fish is new, how did you acclimate it/them?
The normal way. Floating the bag until temps are the same. Then add 1/4 cup of tank water to the bag every 20 minutes until one cup has been added and pH is the same. Then pour the bag water thru a net into a bucket, the fish are caught in the net and let go into the tank. The tank has no lights and the room light is off. The fish are feed the next Morning.
8~Have you added anything new to the tank--decor, new dechlorinator, new substrate, etc.?
No
9A~What kind of food have you been feeding your fish, have you changed their diet recently? I feed them OSI FreshWater Aquarium Flakes, twice daily what they will eat in about 10 seconds. (Phosphate Problem) Twice weekly they get Nutrafin max Liverbearer Food which contains some Tubifex Worms (dried) and they all go crazy of this food. And once each week they get one disc of Hikora Algae Wafer broken up into pieces and if it has not disappeared in 2 hours I siphon the reminder out. I seldom have to siphon any. It goes in one hour and often less. Soon as it softens it is gone
Caudelfin
I have a zebra that became hump backed but he stayed with the others and eat well. Then one day he went to mid tank and stayed there and swim slowly mostly to maintain position. He did not seem to be eating at all. Then one day he was not there, no body laying or floating, just gone. I assume that he died and was eaten before I noticed he was dead. Just now I found one of my Chinese algae eaters, (which by the way only eat algae when juvenal and then become very aggressive) dead at the bottom of the tank. One is left. Yesterday both were eating algae from the side of the glass. The dead one was bloody around the anus area.
Anyone have any ideas what might cause this? Now I have a fish that (I am not sure just what it is, it was with the zebra danios at the fish store and has a long flowing tail like a comet goldfish but is smaller than a zebra - gray in color and looks similar to a zebra danio) is now at the middle of the tank not eating but swims around a little but sometimes sinks to the bottom but shoots up to the middle of the tank again.I must have something wrong with this tank, a 29 gal with 6 Platys and now 1 chinese algae eater and 5 danios and the one small fish with the large flowing tail fin.
1~What type of fish is afflicted? So far only danios and Chinese Algae Eaters. The algae eater was eating algae one night and I found him on the bottom of the tank dead in the AM. Of the platys one of them is humpback but is eating well and swimming with the other fish and one developed a growth on the side of the body. He was caught and placed in the freezer.
2What are your tank parameters (ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, temp, pH)? Please give exact values.
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
Temp 78
pH 7.5
KH 2.5
PO4 6.0 (Better was off the chart)
tap KH 2.5
tap pH 7.9 Over 7.8 but not 8.0 color is a mix of the two test colors
tap PO4 0.5
3~ How large is the tank? 29 gal How long has the tank been set up? 10yrs
4~What type of filtration are you using? Emperor 400
amount of gph if known. 400 but I suspect closer to 350 gph It is cleaned monthly, the mechanical filters which in my case have proven to be biological also cleaned in tank water weekly when I do a 5 gal water change and vacuum the gravel. The mechanical/bio filters changed every 3 months. The carbon is removed from them before replacing as I do not think running carbon all the time is good for the tank. Besides that there is not enough in the blue mech filter to do any good. It depletes itself quickly and starts adding what it removed back to the tank.
5~How many fish are in the tank? 12
What kinds of fish are they and what are their current sizes?
5 danios 1 inch or less
6 red Platys
1 Chinese Algae Eater
6~When is the last time you did a water change and vacuum the gravel?
Tues and this is Thursday so that would no more than 3 days ago.
How often do you do this? Weekly
How much water do you remove at a time? 5 - 7 gal
7~How long have you had the fish? Danios and Platys about 6 months
the Chinese Algae Eaters 10 days
If the fish is new, how did you acclimate it/them?
The normal way. Floating the bag until temps are the same. Then add 1/4 cup of tank water to the bag every 20 minutes until one cup has been added and pH is the same. Then pour the bag water thru a net into a bucket, the fish are caught in the net and let go into the tank. The tank has no lights and the room light is off. The fish are feed the next Morning.
8~Have you added anything new to the tank--decor, new dechlorinator, new substrate, etc.?
No
9A~What kind of food have you been feeding your fish, have you changed their diet recently? I feed them OSI FreshWater Aquarium Flakes, twice daily what they will eat in about 10 seconds. (Phosphate Problem) Twice weekly they get Nutrafin max Liverbearer Food which contains some Tubifex Worms (dried) and they all go crazy of this food. And once each week they get one disc of Hikora Algae Wafer broken up into pieces and if it has not disappeared in 2 hours I siphon the reminder out. I seldom have to siphon any. It goes in one hour and often less. Soon as it softens it is gone
Caudelfin
