Molly death

Sometimes fish die. Actually, all fish die. The trouble is, did the
:fish die from something other than a "natural cause"? If there is no
bvious reason, then short of a lab disection, you will never know.
Here are some question I have in regards to your tank.
#1. Do you do water changes based on a one week cycle, or based on the
# N0 3 reading of the tank water.
#2. If you use treated water, do you use the same brand all the time? Do
# you also follow the directions exactly all the time? 3 When adding
# your water, is it at tank temp ( measured with a thermometer), or
# just a felt temp? 4 Do you pour the water in directly, or put it in
# via a siphon tube?
From reading your post, I personally think it was "natural death".
However, the above mentioned questions, can all lead to an unexpected
fish death(there are many other procedures that will as well). The
deaths however might only occur upon a one time mistake in any of the
above mentioned procedures. The trouble with keeping fish, is we have no
real way of know what is happening in our tanks. We all get compliant,
in how we maintain our fish, and it is hard to sit back and judge how
well we are actually doing our tank up keep. A one time mistake, may
only kill one fish, it is very easy to write that death off to
"natural". The only way, to minimize these types of accidents, is to
have a set method of typical tank maintance. Stick to it, never vary.
Then at least if you do this, you can eliminate several of the variable
induced mystery tank death reasons.



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