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Yes but this was my own money I got from chores... Amd all of it... I want the fish to live more than anything... But now I have no money for the tank...
Is history repeating itself?
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Again, instead of fretting about the money, are you able to do anything to separate the fish that is being attacked to prevent it from being injured any further??
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Not at the moment no... The 10 gqllon tank was in the middle of cycling but I kinda abandoned it... So it has real old water... Ive been meaning to drain it and refill.
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The fish also moved hiding spots and I can't find em...
Well... RIP gudgeon then I guess...
Sorry about your fish/loss of money, but it might drive the lesson home. It's important to quarantine new fish. You had no way of knowing if this fish is carrying a disease or parasites, and introducing him right into your main tank means introducing whatever disease he could have too, and risking your current fish. Setting up that spare tank and observing him for a while could have helped to prevent this, and would have protected your current fish, and given you a spare place to put him when things went wrong.
I suppose you can't drain the water now and refill since it's late there? And by the morning, likely to late for him.
There's always a risk when introducing a new fish to a tank. Even a relatively peaceful species like a platy I moved to live with two other male platies, there was some scary looking displaying and sparring going on when I introduced the new one. They had to establish a pecking order. But it meant I watched them closely and was poised to remove one if it got serious or didn't settle soon, because fish can and do kill each other, and some species are high risk for that, which it seems these ones are.
Poor little fish.
Sorry about your fish/loss of money, but it might drive the lesson home. It's important to quarantine new fish. You had no way of knowing if this fish is carrying a disease or parasites, and introducing him right into your main tank means introducing whatever disease he could have too, and risking your current fish. Setting up that spare tank and observing him for a while could have helped to prevent this, and would have protected your current fish, and given you a spare place to put him when things went wrong.
I suppose you can't drain the water now and refill since it's late there? And by the morning, likely to late for him.
There's always a risk when introducing a new fish to a tank. Even a relatively peaceful species like a platy I moved to live with two other male platies, there was some scary looking displaying and sparring going on when I introduced the new one. They had to establish a pecking order. But it meant I watched them closely and was poised to remove one if it got serious or didn't settle soon, because fish can and do kill each other, and some species are high risk for that, which it seems these ones are.
Poor little fish.
Bear in mind that if he dies/gets killed, the body will produce ammonia, and will need to be removed fairly quickly to prevent an ammonia spike.
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I know... I'm hoping for a miracle... I just hope in the morning he/she is swimming all around.
If he is still alive tomorrow I will fill my 10 gallon tank up half way with the main tank water and the other half with tap water... My 10 gallon tank has no heater so I hope it goes wellWell... RIP gudgeon then I guess...
Sorry about your fish/loss of money, but it might drive the lesson home. It's important to quarantine new fish. You had no way of knowing if this fish is carrying a disease or parasites, and introducing him right into your main tank means introducing whatever disease he could have too, and risking your current fish. Setting up that spare tank and observing him for a while could have helped to prevent this, and would have protected your current fish, and given you a spare place to put him when things went wrong.
I suppose you can't drain the water now and refill since it's late there? And by the morning, likely to late for him.
There's always a risk when introducing a new fish to a tank. Even a relatively peaceful species like a platy I moved to live with two other male platies, there was some scary looking displaying and sparring going on when I introduced the new one. They had to establish a pecking order. But it meant I watched them closely and was poised to remove one if it got serious or didn't settle soon, because fish can and do kill each other, and some species are high risk for that, which it seems these ones are.
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This is why many people suggested that you hold off buying new fish for a few months.
Curb the enthusiasm to replace so fast when you really do not know exactly why fish are not lasting well. Slow down, reseach properly on all aspects of not just their care but their behavioural traits. Introducing new fish into territory already inhabited by others of the same species is always fraught.....just like all animals, including humans, a fish in its territory is not always accepting of new upstart intruders and that new arrival will get roughed up....and sometimes the new arrival will do the roughing up.....
This was a panic buy on your part due to the proposed changes...proposed...not actual, signed off yet.
Slow things down sunshine. Fishkeeping is full of lessons learnt, most of them at the expense of the fish.
Curb the enthusiasm to replace so fast when you really do not know exactly why fish are not lasting well. Slow down, reseach properly on all aspects of not just their care but their behavioural traits. Introducing new fish into territory already inhabited by others of the same species is always fraught.....just like all animals, including humans, a fish in its territory is not always accepting of new upstart intruders and that new arrival will get roughed up....and sometimes the new arrival will do the roughing up.....
This was a panic buy on your part due to the proposed changes...proposed...not actual, signed off yet.
Slow things down sunshine. Fishkeeping is full of lessons learnt, most of them at the expense of the fish.
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Thank you... Yeah I guess I jumped the gun a bit... I think this was a case of my two gudgeons roughing him up. I found him dead this morning in a nice cave. The other two gudgeons were being mean to em yesterday... If they were dogs I would have yelled my head off at em lol... But lesson learned...
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I found him/her with a ton of snails on em... So that is why its skin is kinda gone... But otherwise it has tbe same coloring it did when I got em
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Thanks
Sorry about this, keeping fish can be hard sometimes. What is your plan now?
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The plan? Well, for starters I am going to buy all the peacock gudgeons I ever can and then hope most live... (You going OCD yet itwhetu?) And then I will get about 50 rasboras... I mean at least one will live right? LOL... I'm absolutely joking! Which hopefully you knew while reading it... My plan is to wait a month or two and then getting about 9-11 rasboras
Do you plan to set up the quarantine tank this time? You don't have to cycle it like a brand new tank. Just add a second filter to your main tank, then once that's colonised with bacteria, move it to the quarantine tank and add fresh water when you're ready to get the new fish.
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