From: Kate Breimayer <kate@munat.com>
Reply-To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
Subject: dying cardinals`
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 18:25:18 -0700
Hi all I have a friend who bought a bunch of cardinal tetras several times
from the same LFS... even though they keep dying. The number of fish dying
is always equal to the number purchased though the individuals afflicted
are not always the newest arrivals, and the fish that die do so within 24
hours of bringing home the new victims. I went to her house a day after the
latest batch and we watched one settle onto a plant and expire. No visible
symptoms were observed, it was a fish that had survived a couple weeks...
The color on the dead fish was still good hours after dying, no protrusions
or sunken abdomens, no change in fins, skin texture, or anything at all
that I could see wrong with these fish, they just gently lie down on their
sides and die. Anyone have any ideas? She also has breeding zebra danios in
the tank, healthy angels, female bettas, and loaches. One angel did have
fin rot but it cleared up. She did not salt the water until recently and
then only added one tsp per 10 gallons (180 liter tank). To make things
worse for herself she keeps buying bettas at Walmart and putting them in
the tank, of course they are all sick and die soon afterwards. I have told
her to stop buying more fish but she gets free replacements for everything
that dies so she feels like she would be throwing money away if she doesn't
get her new cardinals. The tetras did not come from Walmart, they come from
a store most of us know and respect.
Do cardinals die from stress? I lost a bunch of healthy neons the day after
an earthquake... I gave up on neons and cardinals years ago as I couldn't
keep them alive either.
She does not quarantine fish, as she only has one tank.
Anyone ever see apparently healthy tetras just drop like this?
Thanks,
Kate B
Oly WA
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