one dead fish

[Justice]

Well I lost my first fish 2 days ago. he was in my new 20gal that I'm
setting up. I checked the water levels and all was good, except the
nitrite was at about .1 ppm. I changed the water and did a sponge
squeese into this tank from a sponge of another tank. The decisead fish
was one of my glowlight rasboras, he was kind of a loner fron day one he
didn't stay with the school much(drop out ;) ). I noticed him on the
side of the intake to the filter. There were no signs of murder, no
surprise all tankmates seem to get along, 1 banded rainbow, 1 diano, and
now 4 was 5 glowlight rasboras. so he must of been ill. I'm thinking of
gettin some more this weekend before I add my clown loaches next
month(let the tank get established and plants rooted). I can't complane
I lost one fish out of the fifteen that I have aquired in the last
4-5 mo. since I started to keep Aqatic life. not bad for a newbie IMO,
since I've read here of newbies who understand cyclying have lost more
fish than me. I also have had 3 illneses that I have noticed excluding
the dead fish. I have had ICH when I first got my cl loaches, and my
banded rainbow has had body fugus twice, once on his fin and once on his
side where on of my yoyo's bit him, bad yoyo. I never used medication on
the fungus due to having bota in the tank and I don't have a hospitle
tank. The reasion being if I got one It would be a hospitle/quarinteen
tank untill I got fish and chances are it would just be another tank.

sorry for the long post but eh.

[Koi-lo]

"Justice" > wrote in message
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> Well I lost my first fish 2 days ago. he was in my new 20gal that I'm
> setting up. I checked the water levels and all was good, except the
> nitrite was at about .1 ppm. I changed the water and did a sponge squeese
> into this tank from a sponge of another tank. The decisead fish was one of
> my glowlight rasboras, he was kind of a loner fron day one he didn't stay
> with the school much(drop out ;) ). I noticed him on the side of the
> intake to the filter. There were no signs of murder, no surprise all
> tankmates seem to get along, 1 banded rainbow, 1 diano, and now 4 was 5
> glowlight rasboras. so he must of been ill. I'm thinking of gettin some
> more this weekend before I add my clown loaches next month(let the tank
> get established and plants rooted). I can't complane I lost one fish out
> of the fifteen that I have aquired in the last
> 4-5 mo. since I started to keep Aqatic life. not bad for a newbie IMO,
> since I've read here of newbies who understand cyclying have lost more
> fish than me. I also have had 3 illneses that I have noticed excluding the
> dead fish. I have had ICH when I first got my cl loaches, and my banded
> rainbow has had body fugus twice, once on his fin and once on his side
> where on of my yoyo's bit him, bad yoyo. I never used medication on the
> fungus due to having bota in the tank and I don't have a hospitle tank.
> The reasion being if I got one It would be a hospitle/quarinteen tank
> untill I got fish and chances are it would just be another tank.
>
> sorry for the long post but eh.
==============================
Fish die. :*( Often we will never know what caused their deaths. It could
have been old age in your rasboras case. DO NOT add more fish until the
cycle completes!!!! You claim you're still seeing a nitrite reading. Wait
until it's zero before adding perhaps one or two fish at a time.
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[Justice]

Koi-lo wrote:
>
> "Justice" > wrote in message
> news:joazf.103758$km.85358@edtnps89...
>
>> Well I lost my first fish 2 days ago. he was in my new 20gal that I'm
>> setting up. I checked the water levels and all was good, except the
>> nitrite was at about .1 ppm. I changed the water and did a sponge
>> squeese into this tank from a sponge of another tank. The decisead
>> fish was one of my glowlight rasboras, he was kind of a loner fron day
>> one he didn't stay with the school much(drop out ;) ). I noticed him
>> on the side of the intake to the filter. There were no signs of
>> murder, no surprise all tankmates seem to get along, 1 banded rainbow,
>> 1 diano, and now 4 was 5 glowlight rasboras. so he must of been ill.
>> I'm thinking of gettin some more this weekend before I add my clown
>> loaches next month(let the tank get established and plants rooted). I
>> can't complane I lost one fish out of the fifteen that I have aquired
>> in the last
>> 4-5 mo. since I started to keep Aqatic life. not bad for a newbie IMO,
>> since I've read here of newbies who understand cyclying have lost more
>> fish than me. I also have had 3 illneses that I have noticed excluding
>> the dead fish. I have had ICH when I first got my cl loaches, and my
>> banded rainbow has had body fugus twice, once on his fin and once on
>> his side where on of my yoyo's bit him, bad yoyo. I never used
>> medication on the fungus due to having bota in the tank and I don't
>> have a hospitle tank. The reasion being if I got one It would be a
>> hospitle/quarinteen tank untill I got fish and chances are it would
>> just be another tank.
>>
>> sorry for the long post but eh.
>
> ==============================
> Fish die. :*( Often we will never know what caused their deaths. It
> could have been old age in your rasboras case. DO NOT add more fish
> until the cycle completes!!!! You claim you're still seeing a nitrite
> reading. Wait until it's zero before adding perhaps one or two fish at
> a time.
it was at 0 then I added plants, then reading of .1 I won't add fish
till it's at 0 for at least 2 dyas. I won't add loaches till @ LEAST 1.5
weeks.

[Gail Futoran]

"Justice" > wrote in message
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[snip]
I never used medication on
> the fungus due to having bota in the tank and I don't have a hospitle
> tank. The reasion being if I got one It would be a hospitle/quarinteen
> tank untill I got fish and chances are it would just be another tank.
>
> sorry for the long post but eh.

Just a note about hospital/quarantine tanks: Mine
are all quite small (2-6 gallons) so I'm not tempted
to use them as permanent homes. Also, small
tanks are easy to set up and then break down
when not in use, so you also don't have to find
a permanent place for them.

I like the Eclipse and AquaTech mostly
self-contained tanks for hospital/quarantine
tanks. I might add a bubble wand and a
heater, otherwise not much is needed beyond
what comes in the box.

Gail

[Justice]

Gail Futoran wrote:
> "Justice" > wrote in message
> news:joazf.103758$km.85358@edtnps89...
> [snip]
> I never used medication on
>
>>the fungus due to having bota in the tank and I don't have a hospitle
>>tank. The reasion being if I got one It would be a hospitle/quarinteen
>>tank untill I got fish and chances are it would just be another tank.
>>
>>sorry for the long post but eh.
>
>
> Just a note about hospital/quarantine tanks: Mine
> are all quite small (2-6 gallons) so I'm not tempted
> to use them as permanent homes. Also, small
> tanks are easy to set up and then break down
> when not in use, so you also don't have to find
> a permanent place for them.
>
> I like the Eclipse and AquaTech mostly
> self-contained tanks for hospital/quarantine
> tanks. I might add a bubble wand and a
> heater, otherwise not much is needed beyond
> what comes in the box.
>
> Gail
>
>
Not a bad Idea, I do want to get a extra heater and filter as back up
anyway, so I'll probably get a small 5 gal. to use

[Koi-lo]

"Justice" > wrote in message
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> Not a bad Idea, I do want to get a extra heater and filter as back up
> anyway, so I'll probably get a small 5 gal. to use
===================
5g tanks are expensive. You can use those plastic totes sold at all variety
stores - cheapest at Wal*Mart, ;-)
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[Dick]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:40:26 GMT, "Gail Futoran"
> wrote:

>"Justice" > wrote in message
>news:joazf.103758$km.85358@edtnps89...
>[snip]
> I never used medication on
>> the fungus due to having bota in the tank and I don't have a hospitle
>> tank. The reasion being if I got one It would be a hospitle/quarinteen
>> tank untill I got fish and chances are it would just be another tank.
>>
>> sorry for the long post but eh.
>
>Just a note about hospital/quarantine tanks: Mine
>are all quite small (2-6 gallons) so I'm not tempted
>to use them as permanent homes. Also, small
>tanks are easy to set up and then break down
>when not in use, so you also don't have to find
>a permanent place for them.
>
>I like the Eclipse and AquaTech mostly
>self-contained tanks for hospital/quarantine
>tanks. I might add a bubble wand and a
>heater, otherwise not much is needed beyond
>what comes in the box.
>
>Gail
>

After 2 years of maintaining a 10 gallon "Hospital" tank I finally
added some gravel, planted the plants that had been growing with lead
weights and bought 8 Red Raspora and 2 Emerald Cory.

Not that I haven't had sick fish, but when I did move them to the
hospital, they never got better, but continued to live for months, so
I started leaving these individuals in their home tank. There was
never anything spread by contagion and I told myself they were more
comfortable remaining in their homes.

So, now I have a lovely Raspora tank. Much more attractive than the
barren hospital tank.

dick