Help, fish keep dying!!

[mel]

I have had tropical fish for almost 20 years now and have never had
any problems I couldn't fix, this time though.

Here is the problem, I brought six cardinal tetras that brought white
spot into my tank. Each night for the first six nights a tetra would
go missing, it was like clockwork, turned off the night at night and
the next morning another was gone, I would have placed my life savings
on the fact that every day I would have one less tetra.

So anyway, I went through about four different treatments trying to
get rid of the white spot (never found it so resistant in the past)
finally I got rid of the white spot.

Few days later I lose a red line torpedo barb (gutted) over the next
few days four of my Rams die, one by one, each of the fish showed no
outwardly sign of illness, just died.

Tried everything I could think of to stop the onslaught, even brought
a reverse osmosis filter just in case it was something in the water.

Anyway next to die was my Siamese flying fox, next was my other flying
fox, both these fish become reclusive a few days before dying, showed
little sign of wanting to eat or swimming about, next was my rainbow
and red tailed shark, both died on the same day, both became reclusive
and just lay around the tank………..NOW my albino shark is showing the
same signs, it is like something is systematically killing off my fish
breed by breed.

What can this be? I am doing everything I have done for the last 20
years with one exception, I have been feeding them frozen bloodworm,
COULD THIS BE THE PROBLEM????? I thought I was being kind to them by
feeding them this over the flake stuff.

[Billy]

"mel" > wrote in message
om...
|I have had tropical fish for almost 20 years now and have never had
| any problems I couldn't fix, this time though.
|


Outside of outright guessing, there's no way we can help withouit
more information. Tell us about your filtration and water parameters
to start with.


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[NetMax]

"mel" > wrote in message
om...
> I have had tropical fish for almost 20 years now and have never had
> any problems I couldn't fix, this time though.
>
> Here is the problem, I brought six cardinal tetras that brought white
> spot into my tank. Each night for the first six nights a tetra would
> go missing, it was like clockwork, turned off the night at night and
> the next morning another was gone, I would have placed my life savings
> on the fact that every day I would have one less tetra.
>
> So anyway, I went through about four different treatments trying to
> get rid of the white spot (never found it so resistant in the past)
> finally I got rid of the white spot.
>
> Few days later I lose a red line torpedo barb (gutted) over the next
> few days four of my Rams die, one by one, each of the fish showed no
> outwardly sign of illness, just died.
>
> Tried everything I could think of to stop the onslaught, even brought
> a reverse osmosis filter just in case it was something in the water.
>
> Anyway next to die was my Siamese flying fox, next was my other flying
> fox, both these fish become reclusive a few days before dying, showed
> little sign of wanting to eat or swimming about, next was my rainbow
> and red tailed shark, both died on the same day, both became reclusive
> and just lay around the tank.....NOW my albino shark is showing the
> same signs, it is like something is systematically killing off my fish
> breed by breed.
>
> What can this be? I am doing everything I have done for the last 20
> years with one exception, I have been feeding them frozen bloodworm,
> COULD THIS BE THE PROBLEM????? I thought I was being kind to them by
> feeding them this over the flake stuff.

Post your water parameters (NH3/4, NO2, NO3, pH). If your water is fine
and of consistent parameters, then you have brought a disease into the
tank. Ich is a parasite and parasite treatments do nothing about
bacterial diseases (and vice-versa). Regarding feeding bloodworms, fish
do best when given a variety of foods, so an exclusive diet of bloodworms
would be undesirable (imo) to even the most carnivorous fish. The
disease may have been brought in via the bloodworms. Check to see if
they are irradiated, as this makes them safer than average, though
average is pretty safe. The most common disease vector is an
unquarantined fish from an LFS.
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[HairyMcLeary]

"mel" > wrote in message
om...
[snip]
> So anyway, I went through about four different treatments trying to
> get rid of the white spot (never found it so resistant in the past)
> finally I got rid of the white spot.
>
[snip]

Is there any possibility of a build up or clash of the various chemicals
used in the different white spot treatments? Just a thought. I had a similar
situation a few years ago I put down to this, I now always filter through
carbon to rid the water of any chemicals before trying another treatment if
the first doesn't work. The problem has never occurred again.

Perhaps filtering through carbon for a few days if you haven't already might
rid the water of any build up, if in fact there is any.

Tony

[ManWorld42]

(mel) wrote in message >...
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> What can this be? I am doing everything I have done for the last 20
> years with one exception, I have been feeding them frozen bloodworm,
> COULD THIS BE THE PROBLEM????? I thought I was being kind to them by
> feeding them this over the flake stuff.

So you are saying that you put your fish on the Atkins Diet and they
died .... Seriously, should the diet of your fish be determined by
the species instead of kindness?