Mysterious Angelfish losses..........

[Jim in Michiana]

About 2-3 months ago, I purchased 6 very nice, very healthy, almost 50 cent sized angels directly from the breeder

All 6 of them looked great and took very well to my tank (125 heavily planted). Within the last 2 weeks however, I have had 5 of them pass on to the great tank in the sky.... Unexplained........

The tank is stocked with a trio of Sailfin Mollies, a couple of Swordtails, a few Cories, and a handful of torpedo like Tetras.

There was no sign of any agression, nor any sign of fungus or disease. I have had NO other losses of any livestock. Water parameters are good. Water changes are 50% weekly. Temp runs 78-79.

The Angels showed no signs of illness, yet they dropped like flies within a 7 day timespan.

Any ideas ??????

 

[shawnhu]

Those Angels seem like they were small, would the temp be too low for the young Angels?

Did you ask the breeder how his other stock is doing? Could be possible that it was a bad batch of fry that was exposed to parasites.

Double check water parameters before and after it's in the tank, could be something has changed in your water supply.

 

[Sunshinessmile]

i have had two of my angels drop this week for no reason that i can find

 

[abcdefghi]

Those Angels seem like they were small, would the temp be too low for the young Angels?

Did you ask the breeder how his other stock is doing? Could be possible that it was a bad batch of fry that was exposed to parasites.

I don't think that 78-79F is too low, when mine were small I had my tank at around that temp and had no problems. They would probably be happier around 82F, but I doubt it would have made a difference.

I second contacting the breeder though, I hate when fish die that appear healthy yet suddenly just die.

 

[PopPopsfish]

Just some food for thought.

I would look at the Tank mates as being the cause of the Angels Death, even though you purchased your Angels from a breeder your existing fish may have a parasite that was transmitted to your new Angels . Whenever you bring in new fish they should be quarantined for a period of four to six weeks to make sure they are not carrying any hitch hikers. We learned this the hard way, now any new specimens that we import or purchase from local breeders are QT'd no exceptions, after the QT period we select one (tester fish) from the QT tank and place it with some of our existing fish from our hatchery, we watch them carefully for a couple of days if all is well we place all the new fish into our systems.