Unexpected fish death

Hey Lance,

12 Jun 04 02:18, you wrote to Rick:

LL Hi Rick,


LL * In a message originally to All, Rick said:

6 comets, as in goldfish??. One comet, max two in your size tank is
all that should be kept. I would suspect that an ammonia spike
killed the fish. Not likely that whatever filter you have on that
size tank can have a bio load capable enough of handling 6 comets.
Messy fish that create large amounts of waste which = ammonia
spikes. Strange that the catfish didn't go also.

LL Yeah, 6 - but they were only small & I've not had a problem keeping
LL that amount in this tank before - my first thought was ammonia too &
LL the "autopsies" tend to support it, degraded fins in a very short time
LL (but no red gi), mad dashing about the tank & trying to bury
LL themselves in the substrate - but rather odd that the catties are
LL totally unaffected (they're all still doing quite nicely). At this
LL stage, I'm not game to put anything else in the tank yet!

Get an Ammonia test kit. They're cheap and can answer that question easily.
-- Dan

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