Apisto. Cacatoides Triple Red

[jojomojo1971]

Hi

I have a 90ltr tank set up for a small set of apisto.cacatuoides triple red. I bought a pair from a LFS last monday, male looked stressed and didn't make it through the night, female looked fine as did the 1 cardinals I have in the tank, so i went ahead and ordered a new pair (mail order, had there stuff before very good). male from them didn't look too great when i got them, on wed, by sat he was dead, since sat I have lost all but 4 cardinals and a female cac. there were no visible signs of disease from the outside, all were eating, cardinals all looked really well right upto when they died.

Is this a bacterial infection? I'm gutted this was the first time keeping these been planning the tank for months to get everything right.

food was bloodworm, daphinia and pellets broken up, fresh garlic and pea's also feed.

Any idea's?

is there likely to be residual bacteria in my water from an infection, if it was that? anyway to stop this from happening again?

Thanks
JO

 

[thegnu]

Sorry to hear that. What is your water source, ie tap etc, and what are the readings of the nitrate and pH in your tank and the water source and what temp is your tank water

 

[jojomojo1971]

All water parameter are what they should be temp is 25c, ph is 6.8, kh is 2, tap water is 7. nitrate is 5.0 which is pretty much same as all my tank, tank is very heavily planted and has bogwood, pea gravel substrate. tank is fuly cycled, used media and water from my big tank to seed this, set up for nearly 4 weeks before adding any fish, kept bacteria up using small amount of ammonia.

Cheers
JO

 

[blue acara]

You do sometimes get problems from mail order-some fish just dont make it...
Id double check your ammonia and nitrite levels just to be safe, also make sure you have good o2 levels.

 

[thegnu]

I cant add anything to that, it seems as if you have done well, everything seems to be good but it obviously isn't

 

[jojomojo1971]

I have triple checked all levels, all fine, oxygen seems fine I have a trickle filter and a eheim internal with a venturi fitted.

I'm at a loss of what went wrong, I only lost the 1 mail order fish, they came from trimar who i've never had problems with before.

JO