Hello folks,
I was hoping someone suggest some possibilities of why my 3 rosy barbs passed away:
Tank: 20 gallon long. In operation for ~ 9 months.
Temp. 81-82 F.
Filtration: Aqua clear 150 and Penguin Bio-wheel 125.
Maintenance Schedule:
-I change 25% of the water every 3rd day.
-50% water change on Sat. or Sun. including filter and gravel vacumming maintenance. Note: Filters cleansed with aquarium water in bucket. Water is treated with Ammo-lock prior to placing new water into aquarium. Algae on glass cleaned ~ once every 2 weeks.
Feeding Schedule:
-Wardley color enhancing flakes every other day.
-Wardley shrimp pellets every 2nd to 3rd day.
-Tetramin tablets every 2nd day (the corydoras favourite)
-Frozen brine shrimp OR Frozen bloodworms once every 2-3 weeks.
Ammonia: unknown.
Nitrites: unknown.
Nitrates: ~15 ppm (ppm...i believe that's the correct measurement, correct me if i'm wrong. Aquarium Pharmaceuticals product used).
***I apologize if the ammonia and nitrite readings are necessities to answering this question.***
Tank inhabitants:
8 rummy nose-tetras (2 species)
1 bolivian ram
1 peppered corydora catfish
2 juli corydora catfish
3 rosy barbs (deceased as of March 10th/2005). Survived for ~ 1.5 weeks.
Plants:
3 java ferns
1 anubias nana
Plant products used:
Seachem Excel every other day
Seachem Flourish once per week.
Seachem Iron rarely perhaps once a month.
Light duration: 20w fluorescent 11 hrs./day.
Quick Summary:
It was quite strange, when I purchased the rosy barbs, they did a magnificent job of cleaning up unwanted algae. On March 8-9th their appetite for flake food, pellets and even algae waefers appeared non-existent.
They were dead the morning of March 10th, all floating on the surface. Upon removal and inspection of the barbs, there were no visible signs of external fungus, bloating etc. Nor did I see them hovering near the surface gasping for oxygen, prior to their death.
The only thing I can think of is that the Bolivian ram was none too thrilled with the rosy barbs erractic movement and stressed them to the point of death. I do recall that the male Bolivian ram was not very excited to have them as roommates and chased them away from time to time....other than that I really don't know what caused their death.
Any hints?
Thanks very much,
Marc
I was hoping someone suggest some possibilities of why my 3 rosy barbs passed away:
Tank: 20 gallon long. In operation for ~ 9 months.
Temp. 81-82 F.
Filtration: Aqua clear 150 and Penguin Bio-wheel 125.
Maintenance Schedule:
-I change 25% of the water every 3rd day.
-50% water change on Sat. or Sun. including filter and gravel vacumming maintenance. Note: Filters cleansed with aquarium water in bucket. Water is treated with Ammo-lock prior to placing new water into aquarium. Algae on glass cleaned ~ once every 2 weeks.
Feeding Schedule:
-Wardley color enhancing flakes every other day.
-Wardley shrimp pellets every 2nd to 3rd day.
-Tetramin tablets every 2nd day (the corydoras favourite)
-Frozen brine shrimp OR Frozen bloodworms once every 2-3 weeks.
Ammonia: unknown.
Nitrites: unknown.
Nitrates: ~15 ppm (ppm...i believe that's the correct measurement, correct me if i'm wrong. Aquarium Pharmaceuticals product used).
***I apologize if the ammonia and nitrite readings are necessities to answering this question.***
Tank inhabitants:
8 rummy nose-tetras (2 species)
1 bolivian ram
1 peppered corydora catfish
2 juli corydora catfish
3 rosy barbs (deceased as of March 10th/2005). Survived for ~ 1.5 weeks.
Plants:
3 java ferns
1 anubias nana
Plant products used:
Seachem Excel every other day
Seachem Flourish once per week.
Seachem Iron rarely perhaps once a month.
Light duration: 20w fluorescent 11 hrs./day.
Quick Summary:
It was quite strange, when I purchased the rosy barbs, they did a magnificent job of cleaning up unwanted algae. On March 8-9th their appetite for flake food, pellets and even algae waefers appeared non-existent.
They were dead the morning of March 10th, all floating on the surface. Upon removal and inspection of the barbs, there were no visible signs of external fungus, bloating etc. Nor did I see them hovering near the surface gasping for oxygen, prior to their death.
The only thing I can think of is that the Bolivian ram was none too thrilled with the rosy barbs erractic movement and stressed them to the point of death. I do recall that the male Bolivian ram was not very excited to have them as roommates and chased them away from time to time....other than that I really don't know what caused their death.
Any hints?
Thanks very much,
Marc
