"Jim Brown" wrote in message
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Sounds like a natural death.
Presuming that there were no obvious signs of disease or damage.
Your danios are active so that sort of says water conditions are good.
The
temperature fluctuation is not too bad, at least not bad enough to be the
cause.
The only problem I see is that 'excursion' by the frogs. It's a behaviour
I
haven't read about or seen yet. Perhaps they were being nipped by the
fish
and used the upper levels to escape?? Maybe, since they were at the
surface, the Betta took a munch or two from their skin, and had a bad
reaction?? Just guesswork.


yes, the danio's are quite active. one of the frogs had recently (within the
last week) shed his skin.

the wife is going to stop off today and pick out a new male betta, i asked
her to take a look at the bigger tanks too.

thanks jim!

tedd.