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Lets start from the very beginning...
About 5 months ago, I bought fish from a local pet store, and they all seemed to be doing just fine together. Then I noticed that the Angel fish weren't being particularly nice to the Bala Shark that I had bought. They weren't attacking him, but when he would swim near them, it was almost as if they purposely were trying to spook him.
About a week later, he didn't come up for feeding (he was usually the first one up there, until the Angel fish came, and then he retreated), so I looked in the tank and he was dead, and seemed to have been pecked at (fins were missing, etc.) I thought maybe that since he was laying under where the filter drops the water back into the tank, that overnight it may have eroded the fins, but wasn't sure. Regardless, I took him out, flushed him, and then cleaned my tank completely. I read that if the fish had eaten him, they could have picked up something...
About a month afterwards, my other fish, (I'm not too sure what he was to be honest. He was just flat. He looked like a string-ray, but small with no tail, if that helps anyone)died. There were no signs of sickness, but like the shark, I cleaned the tank, and removed him.
Now that it's almost 3 months after the last fish died, my Black Angel fish started to get white patches. I didn't think anything of it, because this is my first time owning Angel fish, and I wasn't sure if it was common. The spots were small, but grew slowly over time. I also noticed that his/her (wasn't sure) stomach started to look bigger. There was nothing wrong with its fins, and it did seem a little anti-social, but not always. Today, I went to do the 10% water change, and saw it dead at the bottom of my tank, completely white. I have no idea how it lost all of its color overnight. The day before the patches were no larger than about half a penny. Also, the fins were destroyed. They were missing, and tattered. (I felt so bad looking at it.
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I've been reading, and I've learned that Angel fish can catch Neon Tetra Disease, so I've pretty much narrowed it down to that. Please correct me if I am completely wrong.
So yes, my first question: Was it NTD?
Second question: Can Platy's catch it?
My mother platy fish (Who gave birth to 8 [that we saw, we weren't expecting her to give live birth that soon, so she may have eaten some] healthy babies, who are still alive and well. But the last 2 births have all been dead on arrival. About 60 each time, all half developed and white. Is this result of an illness? I don't see how I could have done the first birthing perfectly, unknowing what I was doing, and then messing it up twice in a row now that I'm aware.) seemed to be bullied by the Angel fish, so I removed her from the tank when I noticed one piece of her tail and one piece of her upper fin missing. She's been having difficulty swimming, and she seems to be a little crooked. It's almost as if she's got an indent on the right side, but a bulge on the left directly across. The color near her tail seems to be fading, but that may just be my paranoia. She also became very anti-social, remaining in the castle most of the time. I thought all this was from the "bullying" however, now I'm not so sure. It seems more like symptoms of NTD. I have been searching for a while, and unless I'm just horrible with Google, it seems there is nothing on Platy fish and NTD.
Is she just injured, or is it something more serious? When I go to feed her, she swims quite fast and she seems as though she goes where she is aiming to go. (Meaning she doesn't just flail about in fear, and is unable to swim. She wants to go away from me, so she does so, in a very straight, very quick fashion. It's just leisure swimming that she doesn't seem to want/able to participate in.)
Sorry for the very long novel here, I just really want to know what's going on, and I hope by giving so much detail, everything can be figured out.
Anything you could tell me, even sharing your own similar stories to seek help (to reduce the same question being asked multiple times and flooding the boards) is welcome and encouraged!
Thanks in advance, this website didn't let me down the first time I had a question (about the live birth, actually. ), and I don't think it will again!
-A Very Concerned Fish Mother.
About 5 months ago, I bought fish from a local pet store, and they all seemed to be doing just fine together. Then I noticed that the Angel fish weren't being particularly nice to the Bala Shark that I had bought. They weren't attacking him, but when he would swim near them, it was almost as if they purposely were trying to spook him.
About a week later, he didn't come up for feeding (he was usually the first one up there, until the Angel fish came, and then he retreated), so I looked in the tank and he was dead, and seemed to have been pecked at (fins were missing, etc.) I thought maybe that since he was laying under where the filter drops the water back into the tank, that overnight it may have eroded the fins, but wasn't sure. Regardless, I took him out, flushed him, and then cleaned my tank completely. I read that if the fish had eaten him, they could have picked up something...
About a month afterwards, my other fish, (I'm not too sure what he was to be honest. He was just flat. He looked like a string-ray, but small with no tail, if that helps anyone)died. There were no signs of sickness, but like the shark, I cleaned the tank, and removed him.
Now that it's almost 3 months after the last fish died, my Black Angel fish started to get white patches. I didn't think anything of it, because this is my first time owning Angel fish, and I wasn't sure if it was common. The spots were small, but grew slowly over time. I also noticed that his/her (wasn't sure) stomach started to look bigger. There was nothing wrong with its fins, and it did seem a little anti-social, but not always. Today, I went to do the 10% water change, and saw it dead at the bottom of my tank, completely white. I have no idea how it lost all of its color overnight. The day before the patches were no larger than about half a penny. Also, the fins were destroyed. They were missing, and tattered. (I felt so bad looking at it.
) I've been reading, and I've learned that Angel fish can catch Neon Tetra Disease, so I've pretty much narrowed it down to that. Please correct me if I am completely wrong.
So yes, my first question: Was it NTD?
Second question: Can Platy's catch it?
My mother platy fish (Who gave birth to 8 [that we saw, we weren't expecting her to give live birth that soon, so she may have eaten some] healthy babies, who are still alive and well. But the last 2 births have all been dead on arrival. About 60 each time, all half developed and white. Is this result of an illness? I don't see how I could have done the first birthing perfectly, unknowing what I was doing, and then messing it up twice in a row now that I'm aware.) seemed to be bullied by the Angel fish, so I removed her from the tank when I noticed one piece of her tail and one piece of her upper fin missing. She's been having difficulty swimming, and she seems to be a little crooked. It's almost as if she's got an indent on the right side, but a bulge on the left directly across. The color near her tail seems to be fading, but that may just be my paranoia. She also became very anti-social, remaining in the castle most of the time. I thought all this was from the "bullying" however, now I'm not so sure. It seems more like symptoms of NTD. I have been searching for a while, and unless I'm just horrible with Google, it seems there is nothing on Platy fish and NTD.
Is she just injured, or is it something more serious? When I go to feed her, she swims quite fast and she seems as though she goes where she is aiming to go. (Meaning she doesn't just flail about in fear, and is unable to swim. She wants to go away from me, so she does so, in a very straight, very quick fashion. It's just leisure swimming that she doesn't seem to want/able to participate in.)
Sorry for the very long novel here, I just really want to know what's going on, and I hope by giving so much detail, everything can be figured out.
Anything you could tell me, even sharing your own similar stories to seek help (to reduce the same question being asked multiple times and flooding the boards) is welcome and encouraged!
Thanks in advance, this website didn't let me down the first time I had a question (about the live birth, actually.
), and I don't think it will again!-A Very Concerned Fish Mother.
