Happiness Has Turned To Sadness...

[eaglesaquarium]

Yeah, the best solution might just be to stay on top with small little water changes so that there is never a big change between the tank and the tap. The way I see it, the tank is probably dropping pH due to the bogwood. I can't let that stop me from having them though. They are one of my favorite parts of the tank.



So, it might have been the pH fluctuations that did them in.


I did find the last rasbora - it was stuck to the back side of my filter. I will keep a close check on things. Thanks. Current pH is 6.6! So, it still keeps sitting there pretty decent. I don't know what the issue is with that one day where it shot up to 7.6?! Other than that it has been pretty steady at 6.6 (+/- 0.2). I don't think that is too bad a fluctuation, as long as it sticks there, I'm pretty happy. (Also ammonia at 0ppm and nitrite still holding fast at 0ppm! )



I just added a few microsorum pteropus) and pulled a few more anacharis. The funny thing about the anacharis is that some of them are thriving, and others are just melting away! The ones that are thriving will stay as they are, and the others will be pulled as they melt. For the most part, I think they really added something to the tank, and don't think I'd like to see the tank look bare as it did before adding them. The tank really looks sweet - although my photography skills will never show that.

 

[Harlequins]

Although sad ,i'm glad you found the missing rasbora,at least it won't be rotting away...

Good news with the readings,i hope they stay stable for you

Yep,its the shame about the glare in your pic ,i notice you have a window or something in the background,try closing the curtains and/or any light source thats coming into the room that may reflect through on/in the tank.
Then try taking the pic of the tank with camera pointing down slightely.
I find night time the best time to take pics

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Yes, the tank is actually between two windows, and a third window is directly across from it in another room, but needless to say, glare is very easy to find and hard to avoid when the sun is up. We don't have "curtains" around the windows, just sheers. My wife has somethings that frame the window, but wouldn't actually cover it up. I'll have to wait until sun down to try to get another pic.



Things have settled down since Monday night/Tuesday morning. No other losses, no other strange behaviors. In fact, my cories are MORE active since the other one has died than they were before. Anyway, things are going well, and I am drastically limiting my feeding now. I had gotten a bit out of hand, I freely admit. The smaller rasboras will eat (or try to eat) ANYTHING that is floating around the tank. I just put some algae wafers in for the cories to find (lights are still off for the day) and the rasboras are the ones eating them... not the cories. Oh well... I'll put a few more in after dark tonight... hopefully the cories will find them this time.

 

[CrazyAirborne]

ive had a few platty losses (2) that i couldnt explain over the last 2 months, and every time it was the newest aquired bunch, i eventually decided it wasnt my fault, as i took my time acclimating, and at least one of the two had looked "weaker" than the others. sometimes it just happens. ive also stopped buying fish from a particular store as ive seen too many skinny fish in their tanks, and ive had bad death rates. u seem to be doing everything correct for your fishies, sometimes its not ur fault!

my corys are so lively, its great, always out in the front, and dont seem the least bit scared of me or anything else. i want to get them to breed!

its funny u say your rasboras are eating the pellets u put in for ur corys, as for mine, ive never seen my harleys try to take something off the bottom of the tank. they are the only fish in there that i know will leave the corys to eat in peace! unlike my blue plattys and my rainbow cichlids!

 

[eaglesaquarium]

My tank has only the harlequins and the corys (I also have two zebra danios, but they seem to think they are harlequins - they've been together with 3 Harlequins and the original 2 pandas for over a year and a half before I got them.) The new harlequins are the ones eating the sinking pellets - they start eating them as they fall, and just follow them down. The cories don't seem to mind. They wait for the pellets to soften first anyway.

Thanks for the encouragement CA, I do appreciate it. I did a long acclimation for both transfers I did. Apparently it was good enough for my extremely bloated zebra to have no trouble. Thanks again!

 

[eaglesaquarium]

I have eggs again!

Of course, the end game of the day that I found the first eggs certainly isn't something I am looking to repeat... Ultimately though, I think that everyone else is settling in nicely. I do still have the issue with the white fin on the rasbora (and the bloated danio) but I think that the others are all fine and healthy. I also believe that the white fin might go away with a little Melafix.