CocaCola
New Member
Hi I set up a tank approximately 7 month ago and everything was going smoothly - I have some dwarf gouramis, a couple of black mollys and three yoyo loaches (with a distinct hierarchy). My tank is all hunky dory, I feed the fish with standard flakes, loach flakes, and occasionally blood worms. All my water stats are fine etc. It's a well planted, 70L freshwater tank - with plenty of hiding places.
A week ago I added 4 leopard danios - all of which were gone within the week. This was pretty bad, as I've never had a fish die. When I lost the first one, two days after I had put them in an interim tank to see any signs of sickness etc etc, I got pretty concerned, as I couldn't find a body. I moved stuff around the tank, checked the filter etc etc. I even lifted up rocks, nothing. Over the course of the week I lost another two - again I found no bodies.
Towards the end of the week I was getting ready to feed the fish. I turned the light on the tank, and I saw the three loaches feeding on the last danio - they were all crowded around it, and in a few seconds it would have been completely gone if I hadn't quickly fished the body out of the tank with a net.
Is this behaviour normal? I don't think it is? They're well feed fish - I don't understand has anyone else seen this behaviour? Should I be worried about my other fish?
Thanks,
CocaCola
A week ago I added 4 leopard danios - all of which were gone within the week. This was pretty bad, as I've never had a fish die. When I lost the first one, two days after I had put them in an interim tank to see any signs of sickness etc etc, I got pretty concerned, as I couldn't find a body. I moved stuff around the tank, checked the filter etc etc. I even lifted up rocks, nothing. Over the course of the week I lost another two - again I found no bodies.
Towards the end of the week I was getting ready to feed the fish. I turned the light on the tank, and I saw the three loaches feeding on the last danio - they were all crowded around it, and in a few seconds it would have been completely gone if I hadn't quickly fished the body out of the tank with a net.
Is this behaviour normal? I don't think it is? They're well feed fish - I don't understand has anyone else seen this behaviour? Should I be worried about my other fish?
Thanks,
CocaCola