I have had a really bad evening, I have lost one of my young frontosa, I did think it was because the large male wanted to breed, I found her battered with her mouth gaping open, she was ok when I fed them, bathed the kids and she was dead when I came down. I moved the male to another tank. Now my 2 largest females have just gone completely crazy trying to jump out of the tank and bashing themselves into rocks, one got stuck under a rock and the other rammed itself under the filter intake pipe, I managed to rescue both but sadly one of the females was holding babies and now her mouth is empty and I cannot see the babies in the tank. The third large female is fine and the younger ones are ok too, but the 2 females in question liked to hang out by the heater? The temperature had risen from 25 to 27. I have changed the heater in case that was faulty and giving off some sort of shock (it was what looked like was happening the way they were acting) and done a partial water change and added melafix. the 2 females are badly injured with missing scales, cuts and torn fins, the one has badly damaged her eye its cloudy looking where she was rammed under the rock. The seperated male is absolutely fine, so I suspect something wrong in the tank, it only happend in the last hour everything was fine till then.
Water tests have come in absolutely fine.
Water tests have come in absolutely fine.
