Subj : Unexpected fish death
To   : Lance Lyon
From : Dan Egli
Date : Tue Jun 15 2004 09:16 am

Hey Lance,

12 Jun 04 02:18, you wrote to Rick:

 LL> Hi Rick,


 LL> * In a message originally to All, Rick said:

 >> 6 comets, as in goldfish??. One comet, max two in your size tank is
 >> all that should be kept. I would suspect that an ammonia spike
 >> killed the fish. Not likely that whatever filter you have on that
 >> size tank can have a bio load capable enough of handling 6 comets.
 >> Messy fish that create large amounts of waste which = ammonia
 >> spikes. Strange that the catfish didn't go also.

 LL> Yeah, 6 - but they were only small & I've not had a problem keeping
 LL> that amount in this tank before - my first thought was ammonia too &
 LL> the "autopsies" tend to support it, degraded fins in a very short time
 LL> (but no red gi), mad dashing about the tank & trying to bury
 LL> themselves in the substrate - but rather odd that the catties are
 LL> totally unaffected (they're all still doing quite nicely). At this
 LL> stage, I'm not game to put anything else in the tank yet!

Get an Ammonia test kit. They're cheap and can answer that question easily.
-- Dan

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