In the past three days, 3 fish have died. I'll tell you how it happened, but I'm not sure what to do.
Day 1:
A new blue angel about 2 inches in body died. My younger sister saw him leaning against a wooden decoration. He was dead. When we removed him, he had a wound where he was attached to the decoration.
Day 2:
No casualties, but some important events occurred. We got new lights for our tank eventually, after about a year with a bad ballast box that kept the aquarium under perpetual darkness. We did a water change, and used the water to clean the filter.
Day 3:
My mom woke up at 5:30 am to feed the fish before going to work. She found a dead small angelfish.
Around 12, I had noticed that our largest angel (full size black marble) was swimming oddly. I thought he was just disoriented with the light. At 2:22, I noticed that he was not moving. He was upside down and breathing slowly, almost once every ten seconds. I saw a wound on his side. I removed him, hoping that ammonia levels would stay normal.
The tank is 33 gallons. It had:
2 small angelfish (relatively new)
1 medium angelfish (relatively new)
1 large angelfish (been with us for 2 years)
1 large clown loach (3 years)
2 small loaches (new)
1 small cory (a long time, his group died off with age)
1 leopard ctenopoma (new)
3 skirttail veil tetras (3 years)
1 siamese algae eater (new)
pH: 6.8
Ammonia levels: 0.25 ppm
Tank not planted
Decorations: One large rock with holes, one large driftwood, small scattered rocks.
Temperature: 79-80
Lights: Coralife Compact Fluorescent Lunar Aqualight, 30"
Settings: Daylight: 10000K from 8 am to 8pm, with a break from 12 to one to discourage algae
Actinic: 6am to 10 am, 6pm to 10pm
Night LEDs: 10 pm to 6 am
Relations were pretty good. The only ones that really fought were one of the small angels, which would harrass the medium one. I was thinking maybe that the small one chased the medium one onto the driftwood...
The leopard ctenopoma didn't like the small angelfish, and would chase them if they got close.
Otherwise, everything was good.
If anyone knows anything that I could do, or that I did wrong, I would be eternally grateful. Please....D;
Day 1:
A new blue angel about 2 inches in body died. My younger sister saw him leaning against a wooden decoration. He was dead. When we removed him, he had a wound where he was attached to the decoration.
Day 2:
No casualties, but some important events occurred. We got new lights for our tank eventually, after about a year with a bad ballast box that kept the aquarium under perpetual darkness. We did a water change, and used the water to clean the filter.
Day 3:
My mom woke up at 5:30 am to feed the fish before going to work. She found a dead small angelfish.
Around 12, I had noticed that our largest angel (full size black marble) was swimming oddly. I thought he was just disoriented with the light. At 2:22, I noticed that he was not moving. He was upside down and breathing slowly, almost once every ten seconds. I saw a wound on his side. I removed him, hoping that ammonia levels would stay normal.
The tank is 33 gallons. It had:
2 small angelfish (relatively new)
1 medium angelfish (relatively new)
1 large angelfish (been with us for 2 years)
1 large clown loach (3 years)
2 small loaches (new)
1 small cory (a long time, his group died off with age)
1 leopard ctenopoma (new)
3 skirttail veil tetras (3 years)
1 siamese algae eater (new)
pH: 6.8
Ammonia levels: 0.25 ppm
Tank not planted
Decorations: One large rock with holes, one large driftwood, small scattered rocks.
Temperature: 79-80
Lights: Coralife Compact Fluorescent Lunar Aqualight, 30"
Settings: Daylight: 10000K from 8 am to 8pm, with a break from 12 to one to discourage algae
Actinic: 6am to 10 am, 6pm to 10pm
Night LEDs: 10 pm to 6 am
Relations were pretty good. The only ones that really fought were one of the small angels, which would harrass the medium one. I was thinking maybe that the small one chased the medium one onto the driftwood...
The leopard ctenopoma didn't like the small angelfish, and would chase them if they got close.
Otherwise, everything was good.
If anyone knows anything that I could do, or that I did wrong, I would be eternally grateful. Please....D;
