dead sidthimunki :(
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:07 pm
My biggest one - the one I rescued from solitary confinement in a fish store. She had just in the past few weeks really begun to school with the others and stop hiding all the time. Just found her dead.
I checked the parameters:
temp - 78F
pH - Between 7.5 - 8 (not usually that high!)
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 25
Is high pH and Nitrates enough to kill?
I'm doing a water change now. Everyone else in the tank looks good. Fat because they just ate, but good. I'm just so disappointed, because I worked so hard to get these sids healthy after a pretty dire bout of parasites, and they're all doing so great. This dead one is the one I got later, fully grown, with no signs of parasites at all.
Last time I cut open a fish it was a bit of a stringy, messy disaster. The fish was tiny (as is this one), and I had no idea what I was looking for.
Now the body is bloated and there's a big red area on the belly under the skin, but that's typical for a dead fish, right?
I checked the parameters:
temp - 78F
pH - Between 7.5 - 8 (not usually that high!)
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 25
Is high pH and Nitrates enough to kill?
I'm doing a water change now. Everyone else in the tank looks good. Fat because they just ate, but good. I'm just so disappointed, because I worked so hard to get these sids healthy after a pretty dire bout of parasites, and they're all doing so great. This dead one is the one I got later, fully grown, with no signs of parasites at all.
Last time I cut open a fish it was a bit of a stringy, messy disaster. The fish was tiny (as is this one), and I had no idea what I was looking for.
Now the body is bloated and there's a big red area on the belly under the skin, but that's typical for a dead fish, right?