Add Homonym's home account wrote:

Gill Passman wrote:


Is it getting enough to eat????? Never kept one....but wanted to and
read up that feeding is an issue.....and what you are describing is
what I have read might happen.....

Please someone who knows better jump in....

Gill


Yup.
That'd be the first thing to look at with any type of dragonette.

However:
They eat pods. There are enough pods in the tank that at the moment,
there are actually pods crawling ON him. I don't think food availability
is the issue.

In any case, this is one of those tank raised ones (bought him at
DEATHCO - YAH, I KNOW...) that is willing to eat frozen foods.

Had him 8 months - he seemed to be eating well enough. I think it's
something else.


Never mind. Too late. He's gone.

Never seen anything like this - very rapid. Took less than three hours
from onset of symptoms (at least the ones I saw - namely the lethargy
and rapid breathing) to death.

First thought was maybe an ammonia spike had burned his gills? - tested
for ammonia, and found nada.

Like I said, I don't think it was starvation. He was eating. Observed
him eating a recently as this morning.

Oh well... At least a new one is not that expensive. I think I'll opt
for a mandarin instead this time. (had one before - was in the tank with
the red scooter at the same time. One morning I awoke to discover
something had bitten/chewed a hole in the side of the mandarin... he
lived for three days with the hole before he expired)

Or maybe this is the universes way of telling me I shold not have
dragonettes...