Bummer my Danio popped his clogs

[Talisman]

Got home last night to see one of my zebra danios swimming slowly at the top of the tank, bouncing off the tank walls, filter etc. Looking like he/she was gasping for air.

My tank has had fish in for a week, 4 Danios, 4 Platies, 2 Scissortails in a 260 Ltr tank. Done the tests and all is ok. I change 20 Ltrs of water per week. Its nice n clean, all the other fish look fine, plants growing well. and plenty of air getting in the water from the pump agitating the water surface.

after a while of watching the fish (nothing else i could do) it gave up and died

I dont know why, like i said all the other fish look fine and healthy.

Im off to the LFS tonight to get a couple more plants and i think ill get some whitespot (ick) treatment as that seems to be the most normal cause of trouble, and run a treatment through it. Or is that a bad idea?

 

[The-Wolf]

Got home last night to see one of my zebra danios swimming slowly at the top of the tank, bouncing off the tank walls, filter etc. Looking like he/she was gasping for air.

My tank has had fish in for a week, 4 Danios, 4 Platies, 2 Scissortails in a 260 Ltr tank. Done the tests and all is ok. I change 20 Ltrs of water per week. Its nice n clean, all the other fish look fine, plants growing well. and plenty of air getting in the water from the pump agitating the water surface.

after a while of watching the fish (nothing else i could do) it gave up and died

I dont know why, like i said all the other fish look fine and healthy.

Im off to the LFS tonight to get a couple more plants and i think ill get some whitespot (ick) treatment as that seems to be the most normal cause of trouble, and run a treatment through it. Or is that a bad idea?

Hi there
Sorry for your loss.
You say the water is fine; what are the results of the tests?
you also state the tank has had fish in it for a week, I assume
that it is uncycled. There is a pinned topic on cycling tanks in the
beginers forum, that may help you.

A 20 ltr water change on a 260 ltr tank is less than 10% you should be changing at least 20% weekly (52ltrs).

Unless you are certain that you have a disease there is no need to medicate the tank, this could lead to more problems with poisioning the fish due to unessercary meds in the water.

 

[Talisman]

I had my LFS test ammonia and nitrite ( i keep forgetting if its nitrate or nitrite, its the one that the filter uses or clears).

both are bang on what they should be. im buying my own kits tonight to do this regular.

had the tank running a week n a bit, after putting in the filter bacteria booster and the levels were all ok after testing at the LFS. and so my good lady wanted to put a few fish in. they have been happy as bunnies since. (except this poor bugger)

i thought that since its a new setup a 20ltr change per week (80 - 100ltr per month) would be ok, and then as more stock is added bump it up to 40 ltrs per week (160- 200ltrs per month) is that ok?

ok ill refrain from adding meds, and will keep a very close eye on the fellas. ill by an ick treatment just not use it, as it seems to be a good idea to have one, and hopefully never need it.

maybe this one just decided after watchin eastenders with my partner for a week now that life really wasnt worth living if it was going to have to put up with that!

 

[skimpy]

Im off to the LFS tonight to get a couple more plants and i think ill get some whitespot (ick) treatment as that seems to be the most normal cause of trouble, and run a treatment through it. Or is that a bad idea?

Just wanted to mention, if I have read what you meant above correctly. Ick or other illness's are not normal cause of trouble. The normal cause of trouble is bad water conditions, these reduce the immunity of the fish and the fish then become susceptable infections and parasites that are ever present in the tank.

Disease is ever present ready to attack the fish, but if we keep the water conditions in tip top shape the fish will be strong enough to keep disease at bay. I do accept that there are exeptions to every rule but 90% of the time this is the problem.

A good example to use is that my fish got internal bacteria infection, and the first sign of any sympton i checked my water parameters, all were ok, so why did my fish get ill. I had not added anything to my tank and could see no reason so I looked further and eventually found that the housing so my filter was blocked and therefore reduced the oxygen content of my water because the pump was not pumping as efficently as it should have. What I'm trying to say here is that there is always a reason for disease and we need to look for the cause rather than just treat the effect.

HTH Good Luck