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#1 chrishaigh82

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Posted 14 June 2018 - 03:17 PM

I've never had a major fish death with out it being because of me doing some thing stupid.  Shock in winter with water change being too cold, forgotten chemicals, nitrogen spike.  

 

Usually my erretmodus are my litmus test, if they get sick something is out of wacK and they are happy as and look like one may be holding.

 

In the last fortnight I have had 30 Tropheus die.  Not from bloat or from dropsy, no distension one the abdomen or the anus.  To be honest they are fancy gold fish, I just never told my wife the Caramba cost ~200/ fish.  So left with the unenviable position losing the rest of my colony 12 carambras (plus 3 babies) in the following days.  Usually when Ive had fish death they all die at once, not a couple a day for a week in spite of water changes.

 

On Mattia's recommendation I called Dr Richmond Loh and he came out on the same day, assessed the set up, the water, took swabs off the healthy fish and their poop, autopsied the dead fish and discovered that they didnt have enough body fat and possibly are underfed.

 

Super nice fellow and if the advice stops one ore of my tropheus dying his call out has paid for itself.

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#2 humbug

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Posted 17 June 2018 - 03:04 PM

The problem with a diagnosis such as this is that when fish are "off", they frequently don't feed.  So that then begs the question - is the lack of body fat a symptom or a cause? 

I had a similar diagnosis when we were struggling to find answers with unexplained deaths in a colony of important fish.  The diagnosis was based on two fish which hadn't been eating for some time.  In my mind it wasn't surprising that they were thin - not eating does that to fish.  But the state of the remaining, apparently unaffected fish in the tank was testament to the fact that sufficient food was available . . . . .



#3 chrishaigh82

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Posted 20 June 2018 - 10:35 PM

Still not sure what took out the tropheus in the tank as I have a grow out tank for malawians in the same system and they are all going great guns and the water quality has remained stable.  I can deal with losing fish if I learn something from the process which makes me a better aquarist however its a mystery and the fry has been put in the main tank to grow quicker and i guess eventually I'll set that tank up differently.  Don't think I can afford a colony of rare trophs again for some time.



#4 Delapool

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Posted 21 June 2018 - 10:09 PM

That’s weird - so guessing nothing was seen on parasites, then also bacterial / viral(?) which then I only know of some poison in the water. There was someone in NZ that lost a tribe of expensive fancy goldfish in similar fashion I think.

#5 chrishaigh82

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Posted 31 August 2018 - 01:25 PM

I’m going to bump this post. Had my alpha male frontosa smash male number two. Separated the poor bugger and contacted the fish vet. He’s lecturing at the zoo but has locked in to come after hours and try and give our second biggest gentle giant a boost up.

Believe it or not he is actually doing better in quarantine.

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#6 Delapool

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Posted 31 August 2018 - 05:01 PM

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