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?
dead sidthimunki :(
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thanks everyone. No, there were no signs of illness. My husband and I had been out of town for a week, and I'm always panicky about what I'm coming home to, but was pleased to find everyone acting normally in that tank. We'd had a petsitter and I had premeasured the amount of food for each day, so I don't think anything went wrong there. No dramatic temperature shifts either. I just don't know!
She was an adult when we got her, so I have no idea how old she was... maybe it was just old age, but I doubt it. I'll be watching the others closely.
She was an adult when we got her, so I have no idea how old she was... maybe it was just old age, but I doubt it. I'll be watching the others closely.
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