r.w.girard
Fish Crazy
This morning, after breakfast, I found my female bolivian ram nose down in a cryptocoryne, with its mouth wide open. Dead as a doornail. Immediately pulled it out and checked the water parameters.
pH: ~6.4
NH3: 0 ppm
NO2: 0 ppm
NO3: 10-20 ppm
Temperature is still being read: it has been hot here, like 90s but we've been keeping the air-conditioning on in the apartment for that reason.
I really never can tell with the Nitrate. Anyway, today was my water change day, so that is a bummer. Didn't notice any strange behavior yesterday, although I was gone for most of the day and the male had been harassing the female the day before, but I was chumming that up to them getting ready to spawn again. Didn't notice any strange smell, either on the fish or in the water. And no wounds, lesions or discoloration on either side of the fish. Just an open mouth.
Tank is exactly as it was left following my last batch of deaths, a while back in mid-April: a former pair of rams, now reduced to one male; 8ish green neon tetras; 6ish otocinclus; a googolplex of MTS and 2 assassin snails. Hardware is a Ehiem 2217.
As much as I wonder what happened, I am not really too worried about it. Question though: will the male pair with a new female or no?
pH: ~6.4
NH3: 0 ppm
NO2: 0 ppm
NO3: 10-20 ppm
Temperature is still being read: it has been hot here, like 90s but we've been keeping the air-conditioning on in the apartment for that reason.
I really never can tell with the Nitrate. Anyway, today was my water change day, so that is a bummer. Didn't notice any strange behavior yesterday, although I was gone for most of the day and the male had been harassing the female the day before, but I was chumming that up to them getting ready to spawn again. Didn't notice any strange smell, either on the fish or in the water. And no wounds, lesions or discoloration on either side of the fish. Just an open mouth.
Tank is exactly as it was left following my last batch of deaths, a while back in mid-April: a former pair of rams, now reduced to one male; 8ish green neon tetras; 6ish otocinclus; a googolplex of MTS and 2 assassin snails. Hardware is a Ehiem 2217.
As much as I wonder what happened, I am not really too worried about it. Question though: will the male pair with a new female or no?
