Got me some endlers

[jflowers]

I bought some Endlers yesterday. They went in a fully cycled 11imp Gallon tank which only had some krib fry (less than 0.5cm) as inhabitants. The tank is very well filtered (ehiem external rated for 55g and internal interpet filter rated for 20g) and water is perfect, 0, 0, 0, PH 7, the only problem is temp, which has been a problem of late, sometimes up to 86, though the other fish in the other 9 tanks have been fine.

Shortly after releasing them from the bag (2 males, 4 females), 1 of the females started to display classic swim bladder symptoms and died shortly after. This morning, 2 other females were dead. The remaining female and males look very well, any thoughts?

TIA

Jon

 

[Miss Dib Dabs]

The tank sounds extremely over filtered. You've given a reading of 0 for nitrAtes, which is not right.
I keep endlers in a community tank and have not lost a single one of the 3 I currently have.
HAve they come from somewhere local or not? If not it could be a big ph difference and if the intro wasn't slow enough that in itself can kill them. If there's a big difference in water stats from where they were the shock can kill any fish.
Keep the lights off, try adding some stress coat or similar. Melafix can help too if they're particularly stressed. Always chills out my platties.
Sorry I don't know what else to suggest but I would recommend removing one of the filters. That water has to be so overproccessed.
Hugs,
P.

 

[jflowers]

Thanks

I do have both filters turned down to reduce flow and have filtered the water through a nitragon filter, don't have one myself but use my dads. Nitrate in the water is pretty high round here (40ppm out of the tap) as its an agricultural area. I dont see how removing a filter will help, but I was planning on removing the internal soon anyway.

Jon