Disaster!

[fishy55599]

so i come home from school, look in my 125L and all my other fish are trying to eat my silver hatchet

1 had died

RIP
1 had been severly attacked, and an eye missing
other 6 are fine.

currently accliming them to my 35L and tested the water (as was set up awaiting baby cory) and everything was fine apart from 0.50ppm nitrite!!

so i guess they will have a w/c in a min.

Also my corys bred and ate the eggs, and there were a couple popped eggs left, but none unpopped

I wish they bred in the morning as i was there.

I think my hatchets are too small and resemble food

 

[ATK!!!]

i feel for you, i have yet to have a fish die on me...

 

[fishy55599]

i feel for you, i have yet to have a fish die on me...

thanks

my fav fish aswell.
and hard to find round here

the one who was severly attacked also just died

 

[Gilli]

Is your tank fully cycled? What fish do you have together?

 

[fishy55599]

Is your tank fully cycled? What fish do you have together?

yes, fully cycled.
Fish:
neon tetras
flame tetras
bolivian ram
golden ram
blue dwarf gourami
kuhli loach
guppies
(silver hatchets have been moved)

 

[Gilli]

You need to do large 50% water changes every day until your nitrites are back to 0, and to find out whats causing the high reading. If your tank is cycled and your nitrite went up that means something must have caused it and your bacteria cant cope. Causes could be bad hygiene such as too much waste has accumulated and therefore an increase in your nitrite, or perhaps you were not doing enough water changes (or irregular water changes) and leftover food started rotting through overfeeding, or you may be overstocked - you didnt say how many of each fish you have.

 

[fishy55599]

the nitrites are in my 35l not the one the fish were in.
i do need to clean it up a bit

 

[roadmaster]

The dwarf gourami would be likely suspect with regards to the injured Hatchet(s assuming water quality is optimal.
Male Dwarf gourami are often territorial and being as how both the hatchet's and the gourami frequent the upper regions of the tank, I could see the gourami asserting itself.
If it did attack the hatchet(s),this depending on damage done,could weaken the fish and fish would be fair game for other fishes to bully.
Many are those who say.."but I have had these fish together since ..." It doesn't ensure that territorial fish won't at some point, turn.
Dwarf gourami with possible exception of the Honey gourami, are poor fishes for aquariums. (often aggressive Males,or female)
Folks buy them for their small size and color, but many of them are prone to Iridovirus/Mycobacterium which are by most accounts untreatable, and may or may not be contagious to other species other than the Gourami.(Google Irodovirus among dwarf Gourami).
Honey gourami and or the larger Pearl gourami would in my opinion be much hardier fish.
Not saying the fish(hatchet(s) were attacked,but maybe possibility?

 

[fishy55599]

The dwarf gourami would be likely suspect with regards to the injured Hatchet(s assuming water quality is optimal.
Male Dwarf gourami are often territorial and being as how both the hatchet's and the gourami frequent the upper regions of the tank, I could see the gourami asserting itself.
If it did attack the hatchet(s),this depending on damage done,could weaken the fish and fish would be fair game for other fishes to bully.
Many are those who say.."but I have had these fish together since ..." It doesn't ensure that territorial fish won't at some point, turn.
Dwarf gourami with possible exception of the Honey gourami, are poor fishes for aquariums. (often aggressive Males,or female)
Folks buy them for their small size and color, but many of them are prone to Iridovirus/Mycobacterium which are by most accounts untreatable, and may or may not be contagious to other species other than the Gourami.(Google Irodovirus among dwarf Gourami).
Honey gourami and or the larger Pearl gourami would in my opinion be much hardier fish.
Not saying the fish(hatchet(s) were attacked,but maybe possibility?

the hatchets were attacked.
but not only gourami was trying, it was rams and guppies also.