Hello there.
2 weeks ago I was left with my mother's/sister's fish after they moved out of my home. From what I can tell, the fish is a black moor fish.
My reason for posting is that, I have just now discovered the fish dead in its tank, despite there being no signs of anything out of the ordinary over the past few weeks. My mother has continued to call in to care for the fish (and other animals) while I've been at work, so there has been no change in its maintenance or anything.
The two things I'm wondering might be responsible are:
1) The tank has always been kept under the boiler, which due to freezing weather yesterday started leaking small quantities of water (unknown whether this is from a pipe, accumulated condensation or snow blown in through the condensate pipe, etc) directly into the tank.
2) In response to #1, I've had a fan heater positioned close to the tank to try to dry the inside of the boiler. I investigated the water temperature, and due to lack of previous experience it's difficult to say whether it's abnormal, but it was noticeably warmer than room temperature.
Would either of these two things account for the fish's sudden demise?
In addition, I've made some attempts (sourced from websites) to try to "revive" the fish, by swimming it slowly around the tank. The fish must have been dead less than 3 hours by this point; was there ever any chance at saving it? Could there still be, 4/5 hours later? Bearing in mind that I have no specialist equipment lying around.
Thanks in advance for any insight anyone may have.
2 weeks ago I was left with my mother's/sister's fish after they moved out of my home. From what I can tell, the fish is a black moor fish.
My reason for posting is that, I have just now discovered the fish dead in its tank, despite there being no signs of anything out of the ordinary over the past few weeks. My mother has continued to call in to care for the fish (and other animals) while I've been at work, so there has been no change in its maintenance or anything.
The two things I'm wondering might be responsible are:
1) The tank has always been kept under the boiler, which due to freezing weather yesterday started leaking small quantities of water (unknown whether this is from a pipe, accumulated condensation or snow blown in through the condensate pipe, etc) directly into the tank.
2) In response to #1, I've had a fan heater positioned close to the tank to try to dry the inside of the boiler. I investigated the water temperature, and due to lack of previous experience it's difficult to say whether it's abnormal, but it was noticeably warmer than room temperature.
Would either of these two things account for the fish's sudden demise?
In addition, I've made some attempts (sourced from websites) to try to "revive" the fish, by swimming it slowly around the tank. The fish must have been dead less than 3 hours by this point; was there ever any chance at saving it? Could there still be, 4/5 hours later? Bearing in mind that I have no specialist equipment lying around.
Thanks in advance for any insight anyone may have.
