pablos
10-23-2020, 08:17 AM
I want to share you a history, so not experienced discus keepers would learn from others mistakes.
I left my fish for short two nights staycation: beach pool, drinks and good food :) ... what can go wrong ?
What was my surprise when my son told me that one fish is missing from a breeding tank. “It’s impossible”, I though. I do have a lid!
I look around the tank, under it .. nothing ! Fish was indeed missing.
Is there cannibalism within discus? No way that other would eat another within two days... I keep searching.
I took closer into a container where I’m soaking my K1 media.
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Only after removing majority of it I found a fish! I said to myself it has to be deadly for him, as this media was cycling. But that lucky ******* was still alive.
So what had happened? I had a cover, but it’s light plastic, so he had to jump so heavily that manage to lift it and jump out of the tank.
Luckily there were a container below, so with a perfect trajectory he jumped into the media.
Luckily again (I did a test) nitrogen cycle has been finished and there were no amonia nor nitrite, only high ~40 nitrate.
Lucky fish is fine and no stressed, only hypnotic by a cone in a breeding tank.
I put a stone, so my lucky goalkeeper would not jump out again.
Please, please use a lid and not just some soft lead. It will save your fish!
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I left my fish for short two nights staycation: beach pool, drinks and good food :) ... what can go wrong ?
What was my surprise when my son told me that one fish is missing from a breeding tank. “It’s impossible”, I though. I do have a lid!
I look around the tank, under it .. nothing ! Fish was indeed missing.
Is there cannibalism within discus? No way that other would eat another within two days... I keep searching.
I took closer into a container where I’m soaking my K1 media.
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Only after removing majority of it I found a fish! I said to myself it has to be deadly for him, as this media was cycling. But that lucky ******* was still alive.
So what had happened? I had a cover, but it’s light plastic, so he had to jump so heavily that manage to lift it and jump out of the tank.
Luckily there were a container below, so with a perfect trajectory he jumped into the media.
Luckily again (I did a test) nitrogen cycle has been finished and there were no amonia nor nitrite, only high ~40 nitrate.
Lucky fish is fine and no stressed, only hypnotic by a cone in a breeding tank.
I put a stone, so my lucky goalkeeper would not jump out again.
Please, please use a lid and not just some soft lead. It will save your fish!
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