I am very sad.

jackiomy

jackiomy

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Jul 6, 2008
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I just got my 10 Ember tetras yesterday. They seemed fine, very active and hungry. This morning there were only 8 and this afternoon only 6. I just found 2 little bodies when I did my water change, stuck to my intake even though I thought it well covered with a sponge. I don't know about the other 2 yet. :cry: I split a sponge down the middle now and slid it over the intake tube so no one else gets stuck.

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That's unfortunate. One morning I saw one of my Cardinals stuck to the intake sponge. I cut the power and it swam away very slowly. Its swimming strong now. I guess some are resilient.
 
Sorry for your losses! I don't think fish get stuck to a filter intake unless they're weak/sick though. When I had my embers, I drip acclimated them to my hard water for about 40 minutes and they all did well the whole time I had them (just sold them). How did you acclimate them?
 
Did the drip in the bucket thing. My Ammonia 0, nitrites 0 and nitrates around 40. I am not sure if that could be caused by those little bodies though. I did a 25% water change and I have not tested it again. The others look great and my other fish are doing well, even the Bamboo shrimp look great.
 
98% probability that the fish did not die from getting stuck to the intake, but rather, were weak/dead as mentioned above before the flow took them there.

could be a number of problems. did you happen to test it before you acclimated?

unless the bodies decomposed in an unusually fast manner, your nitrates were probably that high to begin with, although i doubt that's what caused them to die.

my opinion is bad stock mixed with the extreme stress of transport and acclimation, with minimal fault by you. Sounds like you did everything right.
 
J double R said:
98% probability that the fish did not die from getting stuck to the intake, but rather, were weak/dead as mentioned above before the flow took them there.

could be a number of problems. did you happen to test it before you acclimated?

unless the bodies decomposed in an unusually fast manner, your nitrates were probably that high to begin with, although i doubt that's what caused them to die.

my opinion is bad stock mixed with the extreme stress of transport and acclimation, with minimal fault by you. Sounds like you did everything right.
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