looks like I lost a notable fish last night... 1st in a long time...

[Magnum Man]

honestly I have been struggling with establishing a population of new sail fin mollies, but it's been a long time since I've lost one of my regular fish... schooling fish come and go, but of fish that I can actually monitor them... it looks like Mutt the angel fish has passed... it was adult when it came here, and had been here for at least 2 years... the only unusual thing going on in that tank, is it's the one I recently lost the main tank light, and have not replaced it yet... it still has sun rise / sun set lighting, and lighting from the other tanks shines in from one end...I just noticed it against the glass on the opposite side from the bubble waterfall flow, at 1st light... that tank has had only Tiger ( silver dollar ), and Mutt the angel only for quite a while... wrong season to buy fish, but will have to see if I can get Tiger some company again???

 

[Magnum Man]

I'm looking at adding these as the main lights in the top 4 tanks in my main group... I've got to get the short life lighting figured out before I lose my salary...

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[GaryE]

You talked about the ventral fin getting bitten off. That points to a cause - at least it wasn't disease.

 

[Magnum Man]

I'm still not positive they were actually getting bitten off, none of the other fins have ever showed a sign of nibbling , and they grow back, and coincidentally it has grown them back, and has full length fins right now... but if they were in fact breaking off, it could be the result of some inefficiency in the fish genetic / diet / or environment

 

[GaryE]

Honestly, when you posted about the fin, and the tankmate, I figured you'd lose the angel within a few weeks at most. Incompatible fish can go along for longish periods, but eventually, someone gets nipped, then rammed, and that's that.

And people ask how I ended up with so many tanks. I made so many stocking mistakes, and ended up with so many single survivor old fish that couldn't last together. It's been easier since I decided to stick with smaller fish, though I have these Chromidotilapia kingsleyae growing out, and I may have problems there down the road.

Ventrals can be deformed from inbreeding, but they stay in the same shape and length for life unless there's an injury. Nothing in a normal tank but a tankmate can change that - a tankmate or a netting accident. As you consider replacing the fish, that's worth thinking about. Lone silver dollars can harm tankmates. In their own shoals, they get a bit rough, and tankmates can't always play their games.

 

[anewbie]

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Depends on exact spectrum as some plants are pretty sensitive - of course if no plants then you just want a pleasing light (not too blue not too yellow and without viewing it you won't be able to tell for sure despite what the vendor claims).

As for fishes i'm a bit confused isn't the silver dollar and angel very soft water fish and the mollie like all mollie loving very hard water ?

 

[anewbie]

You talked about the ventral fin getting bitten off. That points to a cause - at least it wasn't disease.

Well if it was dead then it will get nibbled on - at least the seems the norm.

 

[GaryE]

Well if it was dead then it will get nibbled on - at least the seems the norm.

This was in an earlier thread, a couple of weeks before the unfortunate demise of the angel.

 

[Magnum Man]

different aquariums one soft, the other hard...

dead fish has full finage right now... missing/ broken fins were previously

 

[Magnum Man]

well, I pretty much destroyed this tank, trying to retrieve the dead fish, this is one of a couple tanks, I can only work from one narrow side, and the fish ended up under a large piece of drift wood on the opposite side, and the tank is full of vine roots, and this is the tank that the main light went out of recently... took me nearly an hour to get the fish, didn't during a water change so it's half full, I guess i'm just going to fill it, and leave it ugly, until I can get a new light, so I can see what I'm doing...