Hello, I have a quite puzzling problem, and wanted to run it by you guys to see if you had any ideas/suggestions what may be the deal.
About 10-15 days ago, I purchased a pair of royal plecos to put into my 35g hex. brichardi species tank. All seemed fine, the two fish adapted well. This weekend (friday), I found the smaller of the two dead on the bottom of the tank, with no physical evidence of any attack or damage to him.
Suspecting disease, I promplty removed the other royal from the tank, placing it in a 50g that I have in my bedroom, with juvenile compressiceps. At this point, he showed no sign of illness.
Saturday, I did complete water changes on all 3 of my tanks, the 180g, the 35g and the 50g. (All tanks are establised with steady water conditions of about 7.0+ ph, and 0ppm nitrate). I use SeaChem Prime as my water conditioner.
This morning, I awoke to find the other roal pleco in the 50g deceased and another regular pleco from my 180g is skimming the top, looking very rough. All of my tanks are taken care of properly and I'm a fairly experienced aquarist. Does anybody have any idea what could have caused this and/or what I should do to prevent further problems with the fish I have left.
My LFS has a solid reputation, and I have no reason to believe that they are selling bad fish. Could this be the case?
Thanks for your help!!
Blaze
About 10-15 days ago, I purchased a pair of royal plecos to put into my 35g hex. brichardi species tank. All seemed fine, the two fish adapted well. This weekend (friday), I found the smaller of the two dead on the bottom of the tank, with no physical evidence of any attack or damage to him.
Suspecting disease, I promplty removed the other royal from the tank, placing it in a 50g that I have in my bedroom, with juvenile compressiceps. At this point, he showed no sign of illness.
Saturday, I did complete water changes on all 3 of my tanks, the 180g, the 35g and the 50g. (All tanks are establised with steady water conditions of about 7.0+ ph, and 0ppm nitrate). I use SeaChem Prime as my water conditioner.
This morning, I awoke to find the other roal pleco in the 50g deceased and another regular pleco from my 180g is skimming the top, looking very rough. All of my tanks are taken care of properly and I'm a fairly experienced aquarist. Does anybody have any idea what could have caused this and/or what I should do to prevent further problems with the fish I have left.
My LFS has a solid reputation, and I have no reason to believe that they are selling bad fish. Could this be the case?
Thanks for your help!!
Blaze
