Synirr
"No one is a failure unless you try"
Yesterday two of my fish jumped their dividers. Completely unrelated. Let's say there are 5 compartments, numbered like so:
|1|2|3|4|5|
Betta 2 jumped into compartment 1 and betta 4 jumped into compartment 3. It should have dawned on me something might be wrong since I've never had long-finned fish jump like that before, much less two in the same day, but everyone ate and seemed fine so I didn't think much of it. Today Raziel was dead, Mikhael died shortly afterwards, and everyone else in the tank (Loki, the new tropical-looking green/yellow guy, and Gilarion) looked horrible. No outward signs of disease, just pale and lethargic. Loki and Gilarion were actually lying on their sides. I put them all in my plastic juvie containers with some fresh water and IAL extract and they seem to have perked up, which tells me it is almost certainly a water problem
Here's the kicker folks.... 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 20 nitrate. The only thing I can think of that it might have been was the shower soother I used the day they jumped compartments. It's a thing you put in the shower that releases vapors to help with colds and whatnot. I could smell the vapors in that whole end of the house when I finished my shower, and the divided tank is closest to the bathroom. Be careful, folks.
The albimarginata tank is an equal distance from the bathroom actually, but it's completely sealed off so they can't jump out. I know they're fine because they spawned again today
|1|2|3|4|5|
Betta 2 jumped into compartment 1 and betta 4 jumped into compartment 3. It should have dawned on me something might be wrong since I've never had long-finned fish jump like that before, much less two in the same day, but everyone ate and seemed fine so I didn't think much of it. Today Raziel was dead, Mikhael died shortly afterwards, and everyone else in the tank (Loki, the new tropical-looking green/yellow guy, and Gilarion) looked horrible. No outward signs of disease, just pale and lethargic. Loki and Gilarion were actually lying on their sides. I put them all in my plastic juvie containers with some fresh water and IAL extract and they seem to have perked up, which tells me it is almost certainly a water problem
Here's the kicker folks.... 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 20 nitrate. The only thing I can think of that it might have been was the shower soother I used the day they jumped compartments. It's a thing you put in the shower that releases vapors to help with colds and whatnot. I could smell the vapors in that whole end of the house when I finished my shower, and the divided tank is closest to the bathroom. Be careful, folks.
The albimarginata tank is an equal distance from the bathroom actually, but it's completely sealed off so they can't jump out. I know they're fine because they spawned again today
Raziel and Mikhael. I hope the others recover quickly! Shower soothers have been added to my non-betta-friendly list. Thanks for the warning!
sorry for your loss! that sucks! 
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