dan egli
June 17th 04, 07:17 PM
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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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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