Dead Blue Acara and pacus gone

[Tightdog1]

Well over the weekend i had a sick blue acara. i noticed him hanging out at the top of the tank with small holes in his body. so as soon as i saw this i put him into my 10g eclipse and took out the other guy that was in there. well ythe next day i woke up adn he was totally dead, so i buried him in the backyard. this jsut pissed me off because it was the female of my breeding pair!
i figured he got an infection from my 55g with the pacus in it, because there is always ammonia in the water and its just not very good conditions.
after i lose that guy i got fed up, and i put the pacus into a pond my friend keeps. i jsut cant keep them, they jsut mesed up my whole tank, it was hell getting them out of the tank tho, i had to get a fishing net and scoup them up really fast in the net and put them into their own 5g buckets with tops cause they splashed so much. i probably lost a gallon of water for each pacu to the floor and counter behind tank. but i am gkad they are gone and so are my remaining fish. i took pics of the dead guy as he was almost dead and after he was dead to see if i could figure out what was wrong with him, but the pics are not that good, but i will post them eventually soon. as soon as i have time to get them on a picture site.

 

[Harry Tolen]

Please do not blame the pacus. They are not responsible for your problem, and I don't think it would be helpful if others got the idea that simply dumping their fish is a responsible solution to their problems.

If you had an ammonia or nitrite problems in that tank, that would be the result of inadequate filtration. If your nitrates were out of control, that would be water changes. And both could still be controlled with larger filters and/or water changes, at least for a while.

Instead, you just unloaded your fish into a pond. Unless it has a heater, those fish will be dead as soon as the temperature gets into the 50's.