Woke up to a Disaster
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Sorry for your loss
Martin
I am sorry for and your wife. Loosing any beloved animal is very hard.
I have recieved the results from postmortem examination of my group of sewellia. The culprit in all 4 cases Furunculosis Aeromonas internal infection. Major organ damage to gills and anterior kidney.
As of this point I do not have the photos but should get them later this week.
I hope you get things squared up in your clown tank. Are you doing any type of preventitave med in the tank?
Chris and Dee
I am sorry for and your wife. Loosing any beloved animal is very hard.
I have recieved the results from postmortem examination of my group of sewellia. The culprit in all 4 cases Furunculosis Aeromonas internal infection. Major organ damage to gills and anterior kidney.
As of this point I do not have the photos but should get them later this week.
I hope you get things squared up in your clown tank. Are you doing any type of preventitave med in the tank?
Chris and Dee
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I have lost count of how many tanks I have
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Well the good news is all the remaining 10 Clowns are OK.
Just doing another big water-change and discovered two more Tiger Barbs dead within the depths of the windelov fern. What's up with that? How come they haven't died in the open?
Hopefully, that's the last of them that I have to find. I've given it a good rake through with my fingers. It's so thick though that I can't be sure. That's half the trouble with this tank. the Clowns love the cover that the windelov covered bogwood and driftwood provides, but it makes the task of head counting nigh impossible.
Martin.
Just doing another big water-change and discovered two more Tiger Barbs dead within the depths of the windelov fern. What's up with that? How come they haven't died in the open?
Hopefully, that's the last of them that I have to find. I've given it a good rake through with my fingers. It's so thick though that I can't be sure. That's half the trouble with this tank. the Clowns love the cover that the windelov covered bogwood and driftwood provides, but it makes the task of head counting nigh impossible.
Martin.
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I'm suspecting that one or two Tiger Barbs died. They've been popping off one or two at a time for a few weeks now. Old age I guess.
If memory is correct here you have not had those Tiger's for a really long time, bought them at a large size not a real long time ago? If that is correct you might wish to treat your tank as Tiger's live a longtime. The large group that I had for several years were bought when large (trade ins by someone else) and then I traded them back in after having them for several years.
Some of those died a few at a time like you are describing and turned out that they had a parasite issue and then developed bacterial infection. Treated with Kanamycin and Paraguard II. Stopped all further deaths. They appeared to look ok but also died in the plants. Kind of bloated looking ) they were really chunky anyways from Miss overfeed here!!)
Thought it was worth letting you know. So very sorry about your clown loss......how sad. Thankfully not all perished. Have you tried putting a sponge over the intakes? After countless plugged XP's here thats how I remideed that issue. It was happening all the time................
I bow to you also as I feel like such a novice in comparison to your years of experience that I hesitate to even suggest or mention anything! Hope all of your remaining Clowns will be fine now.
Older now but still running against the wind....
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I'm so sorry. I haven't had my tank going for very long, but for the last month, since I had a case of ICH, I have had nothing but trouble. It seemed like everyday I would wake up and find another dead fish. Got to the point I didn't want to get up. The first ones I lost were clown loaches, and I cried. Your loss has provided me some valuable info, so know that they didn't die in vain. They are helping my tank from "the other side."
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