cserra
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well a few months back i posted how happy i was that i got some cardinal tetras to finally survive.i have 5 angels,4 about 50 cent pice size and the other 10 glowlight tetras and had 23 cardinal tetras(now 7). i had the glowlights since they were babies and the angels never messed with them. even if i left town and didnt feed for a day.now they are huge!!! Well about a couple of weeks ago i noticed that i had fewer and fewer tetras. I was realy perplexed at why all of a sudden they started dying after two months of living. i had about 23 in there at one point. I have only seven left. Keep in mind that throughout the whole time they ate good, good color, swam all time and very curious, they werent afraid of me when i did water changes and vaccum. as a mater of fact they would swim up to my hand. so i know stress wasbt the cause. i did alot of thinking and finally it hit me. when i noticed some were missing it was when i ran out of bloodworms for a day or two. i feed my fish flake food as well as bloodworms. well i figured out that my angels ate the cardinals that were small enough to fit in their mouths when i didnt feed them bloodworms for a couple of days, only flake. the ones that survived are huge so i think that is why they were left alone. im not going to put anymore cardinals in there even though they are my favorite fish.
