Vicky99
Fish Fanatic
Sorry - put this in the chit chat section and just noticed a livebearers section - maybe it should be here - also can't work out how to move posts - can only the moderator/administrator do it?!!
Ta
Vicky.
One of my plattys died in the night.
I bought 4 pairs of plattys on Sunday (intended it to be 2 pairs but unfortunatly the guy in the shop managed to give me 1 pair of red ones and 2 male orange and black ones and I didn't notice until I got home - hurumph).
One of the orange and black ones (the one I didn't want when I was in the shop) started behaving strangely within a couple of hours of letting them loose in the tank (after aclimatising them of course).
He was very fat, his fins and tail were a bit raggedy and he was swimming like he was really heavy - trying to get up to the top and then just sinking to the bottom - eventually just staying at the bottom. I put in some sinking food so that he could at least feed and a couple of drops of stress coat in case that was what he needed.
I didn't want him - he was supposed to be a girl, but I didn't want him to be ill either - I'd have got him his own lady friend!
This morning he was dead.
Can anyone shed any light on the reason for his demise? I want to make sure my tank isn't going to be infected and if so what I need to do to protect the fish in there, also that if it was something I have done wrong, that I make sure I sort it out before I get a female to replace him! The other 3 plattys seem happy as larry - they are feeding, playing in the filter stream, swimming about fine.
The water stats were all good except nitrates which were up a bit (but not too much) as I had done a partial water change that morning and my tap water is high in nitrates. This has never caused me a problem before and usually sorts itself out pretty quickly. I always put in decholrinator to make the tap water safe.
Could it have been the nitrates if he was a particularly sensitive fish - there were no signs of any fungus or slime on him. I also thought maybe he came to me with fin rot (as his fins were a bit raggedy) but would that have killed him that quickly? Maybe it was internal parasites? What do you think?
Thanks for your help!
Vicky
Ta
Vicky.
One of my plattys died in the night.I bought 4 pairs of plattys on Sunday (intended it to be 2 pairs but unfortunatly the guy in the shop managed to give me 1 pair of red ones and 2 male orange and black ones and I didn't notice until I got home - hurumph).
One of the orange and black ones (the one I didn't want when I was in the shop) started behaving strangely within a couple of hours of letting them loose in the tank (after aclimatising them of course).
He was very fat, his fins and tail were a bit raggedy and he was swimming like he was really heavy - trying to get up to the top and then just sinking to the bottom - eventually just staying at the bottom. I put in some sinking food so that he could at least feed and a couple of drops of stress coat in case that was what he needed.
I didn't want him - he was supposed to be a girl, but I didn't want him to be ill either - I'd have got him his own lady friend!
This morning he was dead.
Can anyone shed any light on the reason for his demise? I want to make sure my tank isn't going to be infected and if so what I need to do to protect the fish in there, also that if it was something I have done wrong, that I make sure I sort it out before I get a female to replace him! The other 3 plattys seem happy as larry - they are feeding, playing in the filter stream, swimming about fine.
The water stats were all good except nitrates which were up a bit (but not too much) as I had done a partial water change that morning and my tap water is high in nitrates. This has never caused me a problem before and usually sorts itself out pretty quickly. I always put in decholrinator to make the tap water safe.
Could it have been the nitrates if he was a particularly sensitive fish - there were no signs of any fungus or slime on him. I also thought maybe he came to me with fin rot (as his fins were a bit raggedy) but would that have killed him that quickly? Maybe it was internal parasites? What do you think?
Thanks for your help!
Vicky
