Please bear with me here....I've got a question that really doesn't have much factual happenings behind it, I just was hoping for opinions and stuff...
A few months back, my goyder rainbow decided to harass my boesmani rainbow to the point that the boesmani developed mouth fungus. I moved him to a 10g hospital tank. About this time, I had noticed that 5 neons in my 55g had what looked to be mouth fungus as well. I took them out and put them with the boesmani. Everything in the 55g is healthy and I haven't had a problem since.
Now, for no real apparent reason, I lost 1 or 2 neons a few weeks after putting them in the hospital tank. Even though I didn't see any remaining fungus on the boesmani or neons, something didn't seem right. I can't explain, something just didn't look/seem right with the fish and I was reluctant to put them back into a healthy main tank.
Then, I lost another neon. And another. No apparent reason. With the deaths in the tank I was still hesitant about putting the boesmani into the 55g.
About half an hour ago, I just lost the last neon in that tank, which I was expecting since things were going down hill for it (got fairly skinny, and just plain looked "off").
Meanwhile, this whole time, the boesmani hasn't lost any weight, eats like a pig, is fairly active. I'd like to add him to the 55g planted as soon as possible to give him more room and make him happier. But with all those weird deaths, I'm afraid that I'll make the 55g sick...
I think the sickness was solely in the neons, for whatever reason, since, as I said, the boesmani seems fine. Think I can go ahead and add him?
A few months back, my goyder rainbow decided to harass my boesmani rainbow to the point that the boesmani developed mouth fungus. I moved him to a 10g hospital tank. About this time, I had noticed that 5 neons in my 55g had what looked to be mouth fungus as well. I took them out and put them with the boesmani. Everything in the 55g is healthy and I haven't had a problem since.
Now, for no real apparent reason, I lost 1 or 2 neons a few weeks after putting them in the hospital tank. Even though I didn't see any remaining fungus on the boesmani or neons, something didn't seem right. I can't explain, something just didn't look/seem right with the fish and I was reluctant to put them back into a healthy main tank.
Then, I lost another neon. And another. No apparent reason. With the deaths in the tank I was still hesitant about putting the boesmani into the 55g.
About half an hour ago, I just lost the last neon in that tank, which I was expecting since things were going down hill for it (got fairly skinny, and just plain looked "off").
Meanwhile, this whole time, the boesmani hasn't lost any weight, eats like a pig, is fairly active. I'd like to add him to the 55g planted as soon as possible to give him more room and make him happier. But with all those weird deaths, I'm afraid that I'll make the 55g sick...
I think the sickness was solely in the neons, for whatever reason, since, as I said, the boesmani seems fine. Think I can go ahead and add him?
