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Re: dying cardinals`



She said she did acclimate them slowly adding a little water at a time, we did test the tank water with a combo test strip and I thought the nitrate was a little high-my preference was for zero and anything over that is "high" to me... but it was not in the range considered high by the company that made the test strips. She said the LFS also tested her water and pronounced it safe. I didn't see any damage physically to the fish that died, they looked like they were not even pale... weird. She was crying, it was aweful. All I could say was "I don't know"...
Kate

Aaron Frymire wrote:

Has she seen any of the fish picking on the new Tetras? Also does she have a acclamation process she goes though, or does she just dump them in the tank? - Aaron Frymire

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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