Absolute Tragedy: Lost all four of my Parotocinclus sp 'Peru'

If it makes you feel any better, the only help you could have possibly given them would probably have meant unusual amounts of testing, etc.. Not something you could have forseen. Since the loss, have you compared the water in the two tanks?
 
Dwarf Puffers said:
If it makes you feel any better, the only help you could have possibly given them would probably have meant unusual amounts of testing, etc.. Not something you could have forseen. Since the loss, have you compared the water in the two tanks?
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Only the pH, I'll have to check out water hardness, might give me some idea about what happened.
 
jmhart said:
Only the pH, I'll have to check out water hardness, might give me some idea about what happened.
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Also compare the TDS as it can very substantially between heavy and light populated tanks and its not so much that is bad or good just that it can be too much too quick for some species. After lowering my local tap TDS from 800 to 600, it made all the difference in the world for BP, Goldies and even puffers, all while the Ciclids could care less.
 
That's a huge bummer, jmhart. They were adorable little fish!
 
wow, this is a year old, but I have this fish...
i have researched it as parotocinclus britskii or parotocinclus sp peru... my LFS has gotten these guys in twice labeled as bumble bee otocinclus. my favorite little guy
 
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