Ginger passed away

[ral]

One of the female Betta's I bought last week died today. Placed her in a Community tank and it turned out one of the "Females" was a small Plakat. She got hurt pretty bad, loosing the use of one of left pectoral fin as well as having badly torn fins, but hse was swimming and eating.

Placed her is an isolation tank (and the Plakat as well) Saturday morning with a mild anti-bacteiral and salt to heal her injuries. By Sunday she had regained the use left pectoral fin.

This morning (Monday) I was a bit surprised to see that she had lost the use of her right pectoral fin and that he body had stiffened up during the night. She was having difficulty swiming and was gasping for air at the bottom of the tank. Drop in an air stone, but I was too late.

When I got home tonight she had already died.

Second time in 5 days I come home to a dead fish (1 Cory and 1 Betta), and I was not expecting either.

I guess if I am into the hobby I better get used to loosing a few.

Lesson learned: Should have drop in the airstone on the first day of treatment. I guess this would be a good procedure for any sick fish, in case their conditons worsen.

I usually avoind the airstone since in the small 1 gallon hospital tank, I think it stresses them a bit.

Lesson learned 2: Buy a bigger hospital tank. A 2.5G would cost me just $2

 

[Joby]

Aww sorry to hear about Ginger

We seem to go through phases of fish losses and we never get used to feeling so sad when we do

 

[ral]

I have had fish near death, or what I thought was near death (staying on the bottom of the tank all day after a bad attack of Ich) and they came through.

Than two of my fish, one who I had no concern at all about and the other who I was confident would get well suddenly die on me.

Thanks Joby.

 

[Nuttygal! :0)]

Ginger ! Sorry to hear about your loss Ral...

 

[ral]

Between Kristine (future wife), Mara (sister of future wife) and myself we have managed to loose 3 out of 7 LFS females.

 

[bettaboi]

sorry to hear about your lose hope it donsent happen again
R.I.P. ginger

 

[ral]

Oh it will. It is just a matter of time for each one of them, and us. Will just make keep them as happy as I can while there are with me.

 

[SRC]

Awww that's too bad Ral. Atleast you tried to help her out though.

 

[yeeviabetta]

Sorry to hear another one dead. Yes, we all make mistake sometimes and hopefully we will learn from it.

 

[cutechic]

I'm sorry Ral

 

[ral]

Thanks all. She was a cute Torquise crown female.

 

[SHANTYMAID]

so sorry to read about your fish, i know i lost my paradise MARS a couple of weeks ago and was gutted. GINGER