Fish are dieing

[US-Marine]

Is there a disease that kills fish (Penguin Tetras and the like) that makes it look like their mouths are open as they swim around. OR, is it a Gourami that is attacking them?

 

[semper fi]

how big is the tank? have you tested the water? if so, what were the results? what all is in the tank? do the fish show any markings on them at all? how did the fish act before they died?

 

[US-Marine]

Thanks for the reply. To attempt to answer the questions you posed I can only reply that I know nothing about fish except that they like water and get angry when you take them out of it. The tank is a 10-gal. That we purchased for my grandson. The fish that are in it are: 1 Chinese Algae –eater, 1 Pleco catfish, 1 Gourami, 1 Neon Tetra, 1 Guppy, 1 Sword, 3 small Pink catfish looking bottom dwellers, 2 Penguin Tetras and 1 Tetra with red fins. When the fish are affected with the “open mouth” they look like Pac-Man swimming around with the mouth in the open position. I just looked with a magnifying glass and it looks like they don’t even have a bottom of the mouth…like its rotted away or something. One of them had a brownish patch around its mouth yesterday and today it’s swimming around with the mouth open.

 

[nightlife20]

how long has the tank been set up?


nip to ur lfs and get a master test kit of some kind

it should include tests for

ammonia
nitrite
nitrate
and ph


when you have tested all these (takes a while to figure it out... or that could be just me lol) post the results


depending on how long its been set up... could you tell us how many water changes you have done, if any?


thanks

 

[Moving Shadow]

Think you could be in trouble there.

As the good man nightlife20 has pointed out, if the tank is new the ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate levels are all over the place. If this is the case (new tank wise) do a 40% water change RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Keep doing this for as many weeks as it takes to get everything down to the correct levels, and then 20% weekly.

Hope you can avoid any deaths. B)

 

[nightlife20]

man








please dont insult me

 

[Moving Shadow]

My sincere apologies.

No offense meant.

Firing squad lining up now.....

 

[nightlife20]