Very Disappointed

[svf]

Actually, if this makes you feel better, I am also a newbie and have been searching this list to find an answer to the "cloudy water" issue that I am having in my fairly new tank set-up. Your post was in the list of threads that contained my search words "cloudy water." I read the thread, and then went back to read your original post so I could see better what you were talking about. I don't know anything about tiger barbs - I have one tank with mollies and one with tetras. I have no idea how to help with your tank or your fish. I have learned a bit about tiger barbs from reading all the answers to your thread, though. So, in short, I have viewed your thread, learned stuff from the other members posts and have no idea why your fish died. I am sorry.
Good luck with the fish that you still have - they are still alive and appreciate your care.

Susan

 

[svtcontour]

No offence but nobody on this board can speak to fish and ask them whats wrong. Heck maybe one of your tiger barbs was metally challenged and thats why it was hiding. Maybe it didnt know it was a tiger barb and didnt behave accordingly. The point is that people offered some possible reasons why a fish might act different.
You're looking for answers but nobody can possibly have the right answer. Its a process of elimination. If the water is good, and the food is good and he's not getting picked on then maybe there is a problem internally with the fish that one cannot see. You kept saying it was not injured but unless you had an x-ray machine, you could not tell if there was something wrong inside.

My last post on that thread was completely ignored. It's answers like yours that make my frustration even greater -- as I said, and AGAIN mentioned on my second post above is that, no, I wasn't looking for miracles, instead with advice of something I could do. The responses I have told me what the problem might be -- no one offered a possible solution (and for a long time I was debating if I should buy a smaller tank to transfer him to that, or if it was just going to add to his stress, as he would have no place to hide). I wouldn't just sit around waiting for any of my other pets to die, don't like to do the same with fish, just because they're smaller. I came here for help, and here you are saying I shouldn't have expected help from the forum? I never blamed anyone for the death (did you read everything I wrote?) but didn't like standing by watching him starve himself to death and not being able to do something, anything, to at least try to make it better. It might not have worked, but at least I had the option of trying something

So my "juvenile" reaction is to do with that -- if a posting gets ignored, then why should I post again? It took a post complaining about this to get people to reply to me. And I'm not complaining about the ones who didn't know what to do, but you're telling me that the over 100 views to my post, not one person had any ideas of something I could try to do?? Being a newbie, who doesn't know anyone else who has fish, it's not like I can make a educated decision on what to do, so I went with my two options -- search online like crazy and post here...