Am I Over Stocked

[halfbloodprincess]

I was getting my quarinteen tank ready for her and was going to buy treatment when she died in the morning. I am hoping that it did not spread throughout the whole tank. Petco said it was either a reproductive problem or that she just died of old age and that female bettas only live for about under a year. But now I doubt this. She had raised scales, a bloated white belly, and a brown wound on her side. Does not sound like it does it. Then after she died I found the same on my platy. And this morning I found my dwarf gourami dead. I am just hoping nothing will happen to the other fish in my tank. My neons, yoyo, and one of my corys are the oldest fish in the tank and I hope they are not as prone to this as the others.

All the fish in my current stocking are soon to be in a bigger tank so dont worry. (Well if the disease doesnt spread)

My tank is crystal clear, my stats are great(0,0,and 0), and the fish seem to be healthy.

Luna!

 

[halfbloodprincess]

So the whole point that I was trying to make was that stocking was not the reason my fish died. My stats were fine so I figured I could get more fish. But it all went wrong after that one day after school when I went to petco and got more fish, and my mom convinced me to get three otos. I really should of observed them before I dicided to get them and maybe I would have noticed they were sick. I didnt notice untill I found them dead.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

you should quarantine new fish before you add them to the tank. just observing them in the store doesn't mean that they aren't sick. you really need to isolate them at home for about 2 weeks to be sure that they won't introduce any diseases.

i'm sorry for your loss.

 

[halfbloodprincess]

I am sorry but I was never told to do that, so I had no idea.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

here's a topic that I've made in the past about using a bucket as a quarantine set-up. while in the topic I suggest using an airstone and a Whisper internal filter insert, I now think that it's just as easy to go on ahead and purchase the smallest size Whisper internal filter and just keep it off to the side somewhere. the insert should still be kept in your main filter, however.

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=98545

FYI: it only takes a couple of days' exposure for a bacterial colony to begin forming in proper aerobic conditions. if you do daily water changes and limit feeding (both of which I would advocate anyways for the quarantine period), then not having a fully colonized filtration system shouldn't be an issue because there just shouldn't be that much waste in the water column.

PM me if you have any questions.

 

[halfbloodprincess]

Thank you.