What heppened to my Rams

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 00:42:17 +0200, gizmo wrote:
Last Saturday I bought 8 Rams (Apistogramma ramirezi), they were all
introduced to a 30 gallon planted tank, which was till the occupied by two
Discus which were happy in it.

What happened to the discus? Did they die? was the tank cleaned or
treated in any way?

As from Monday they start dying on me!!! 7 dead (last one today) and there
is only one left......

Introducing a number of fish might have been a struggle on the filter,
so it might have not coped with the increased load. Test for ammonia
and nitrite just in case?

Do they have any symptoms before they die? In this hot weather
(although I dont know where you are or whether you've got a heatwave
too my fish have struggled. This year isn't too bad but a couple
of years ago when the tank was at 30C for a few days running, they
were obviously having problems breathing etc. You said your tank is
at 29-30C, from what I've read rams prefer a few degrees lower.
Not to say that the temperature alone will have killed them but it
might have contributed if there were other issues.

If they were direct from the store, check what water parameters
they were used to there? Or go back to see whether the rest of
the store's rams look sick?

Obviously I don't know what killed your rams but I hope these
are some useful pointers.

Sorry for your loss Hopefully you can find and fix the
problem so next time you have more luck.

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Flash Wilson
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