AlgaeQueen
03-17-2015, 07:40 AM
My favourite female red pearl just died today.
I'm a little distraught. She's about a year old, mated but hasn't yet laid eggs.
I've moved her and her mate into a 37 gallon with a giant piece of driftwood, cone, sponge filter and heater.
3 sides covered in white. Light only on for viewing.
I performed her daily water change today, 50% barrel aged treated tap water. It's aged 24 hours roughly.
10 minutes after the water change she started drifting around the tank aimlessly, eventually facing the corner of the tank and not moving. She'd drift until she bumped into something. Listless as a log.
30 minutes later she was laying flat on the heater.
5 minutes after that she was dead.
Her colors were vivid and beautiful. Nothing changed. Even her dead body is fully coloured, no frayed edges, no growth, nothin.
As soon as she started drifting around like a drunk I thought shoot, my tap water must be contaminated!
I quickly siphoned 25% of the water out and replenished it with water from tanks I have not yet changed. It didn't help.
Ammonia nitrite and nitrate are non existent.
The ph is 7.5 same as always.
I don't get it. No symptoms.
The hospital tank on the other hand, if you haven't seen my other thread, are holding 3 near death patients I have adopted. All 3 have been brown, pale, skinny, and otherwise dead looking for months, yet they are fine after the water change.
Her mate is also fine. Swimming around being his usual curious self.
What could it be?
And also, how do I pair him up again? Assuming its a he.
This sudden death has me puzzled..
Zoey
I'm a little distraught. She's about a year old, mated but hasn't yet laid eggs.
I've moved her and her mate into a 37 gallon with a giant piece of driftwood, cone, sponge filter and heater.
3 sides covered in white. Light only on for viewing.
I performed her daily water change today, 50% barrel aged treated tap water. It's aged 24 hours roughly.
10 minutes after the water change she started drifting around the tank aimlessly, eventually facing the corner of the tank and not moving. She'd drift until she bumped into something. Listless as a log.
30 minutes later she was laying flat on the heater.
5 minutes after that she was dead.
Her colors were vivid and beautiful. Nothing changed. Even her dead body is fully coloured, no frayed edges, no growth, nothin.
As soon as she started drifting around like a drunk I thought shoot, my tap water must be contaminated!
I quickly siphoned 25% of the water out and replenished it with water from tanks I have not yet changed. It didn't help.
Ammonia nitrite and nitrate are non existent.
The ph is 7.5 same as always.
I don't get it. No symptoms.
The hospital tank on the other hand, if you haven't seen my other thread, are holding 3 near death patients I have adopted. All 3 have been brown, pale, skinny, and otherwise dead looking for months, yet they are fine after the water change.
Her mate is also fine. Swimming around being his usual curious self.
What could it be?
And also, how do I pair him up again? Assuming its a he.
This sudden death has me puzzled..
Zoey