Today I lost my first fish. It was one of my Red Zebras. About a week ago I noticed one of my Red Zebras was acting funny(not eating, hiding all of the time and making wierd mouth motions like opening and closing all of the time). A few days ago I took it out and put it into a 5 gallon established quarantine tank hoping that it would be better or atleast not affect the other fish in my tank. Well it wasn't seeming to be doing much better in this tank either and today when I got home from work, it was dead. When I took the fish out, Looked it over more carefully and noticed a small, unusual hole just behind the pectoral fin. :-?
A little background information about my tank:
75 Gallon(4 ft long) with 2 Emperor 400 Power Filters. Tank has been setup and running for over 2 months and all fish in it are roughly 2-2.5" in length.
Current Stock:
4 Pseudotropheus Acei "Yellow Tail"
5(now 4) Metriaclima estherae "Red Zebra"
5 Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos "Maingano"
6 Labidochromis caeruleus "Yellow Lab"
4 Cynotilapia Afra "white top hara"
Water Parameters:
pH: 8.3
gH: 18
kH: 14
Ammonia: 0
NitrIte: 0
NitrAte: 10-20
Temp.: 78-80 degrees
I guess what I'm wondering is if anyone has had this happen or know what may have happened and if there is anything I should do to make sure my other fish don't get infected(which by the way seem to be fine)? If there is anymore information that I can provide to help diagnose anything, let me know......
Thanks,
Bert
A little background information about my tank:
75 Gallon(4 ft long) with 2 Emperor 400 Power Filters. Tank has been setup and running for over 2 months and all fish in it are roughly 2-2.5" in length.
Current Stock:
4 Pseudotropheus Acei "Yellow Tail"
5(now 4) Metriaclima estherae "Red Zebra"
5 Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos "Maingano"
6 Labidochromis caeruleus "Yellow Lab"
4 Cynotilapia Afra "white top hara"
Water Parameters:
pH: 8.3
gH: 18
kH: 14
Ammonia: 0
NitrIte: 0
NitrAte: 10-20
Temp.: 78-80 degrees
I guess what I'm wondering is if anyone has had this happen or know what may have happened and if there is anything I should do to make sure my other fish don't get infected(which by the way seem to be fine)? If there is anymore information that I can provide to help diagnose anything, let me know......
Thanks,
Bert