Gutted beyond belief!!

[Elisabeth83]

I got a pair of peacock gudgeons last week and from the begining the male was always hiding and he actually never ate anything. I was kind of using that tank as a quarenteen tank because all the fish were purchased around the same time. Anyways about 4-5 days ago I bought a female ram. Unfortunately she brought in fin rot so I started using JBL furanol 3 days ago.

I woke up this morning to find my male peacock gudgeon dead I have no idea if it was because he never ate, the medication or what. I acclimatized the peacocks for about 45 mins so it shouldn't of been any kind of shock.

Everyone else in the tank is fine. The medicaition I'm using is said to be well tolerated I'm just so depressed now

 

[Ben]

what were you feeding it?
IME, Peacocks wont take flakes/pellets unless you force it into their mouth physically, only brine shrimp and blood worm will do for them

 

[Elisabeth83]

I offered flake, pellets, frozen bloodworm and frozen brineshrimp and he wouldn't touch any of them. The female takes bloodworm happily and has tried the brine shrimp..not sure if she actually ate it but she was playing with it.

 

[Bloo]

Oh dear Elisabeth sometimes these things happen and they are not your fault.
It actually sounds like you got him unwell and he just didn't acclimatize that well - but that's not to say that he have just died anyway even if he stayed where he was.
Not your fault.

 

[Elisabeth83]

Oh dear Elisabeth sometimes these things happen and they are not your fault.
It actually sounds like you got him unwell and he just didn't acclimatize that well - but that's not to say that he have just died anyway even if he stayed where he was.
Not your fault.

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Thanks bloozoo2 Lately I've just been having some bad luck

 

[Elisabeth83]

I just got off the phone with the guy I bought the gudgeons from and he said from the sounds of it there was something wrong with the male before I bought him. He thinks maybe some kind of bacteria in the stomach thats why he wouldn't eat.

He said he usually only feeds live foods though sometimes frozen brine shrimp if he doesn't have anything live. He said though that they should adapt to frozen foods and I told him the female does eat bloodworm and has tried the brine shrimp. He said bloodworm really isn't the greatest for fish but they eat it because they love it.

He told me to come in on Thursday and he'll have a new male for me and he'll also teach me all about live foods and how to keep them. I've only ever hatched out baby brine shrimp so I have no idea about any other live foods. Looks like I need to go read some stuff before I go there so I don't look like a complete idiot

I've never tried any other live food but the brine shrimp because I could never find any here in Sweden. Now I found this guy and his shop and he has all the live foods you could think of.

Looks like I'm going into a new phase of fishkeeping: Live Food!