panda just dies....

[panboy]

yeah, actually with these pandas i did it....

this is the thing. i had them for probably a month before they died. they were in the shop for a week, then i took them home.

so i think they settled in, but somethign wierd happened after a month.

 

[Oddball]

Did they all get the upside down syndrome? if so it may be a bact. infection as mentioned earlier that effects their swim bladder? i dont know too much about fish infections but if it effects boyancy then that would be my first guess....

 

[smithrc]

mine just became withdrwan and kept swimming to the surface and gasping... they then calmed down again... and died the next day.

 

[Oddball]

When corys swim to the surface isnt it to take in air from their auxilary organ? Wouldnt this indicate difficulty breathing?

 

[NEON98101]

What have you been feeding ? Any live food? I'm not saying all the live food is bad but some have the risk of introducing some disease and stuff. Personally I never feed LIVE tubflixs and blackworms since I know they grow in pretty nasty place. And I see often people have trouble with fish health feeding them.
Did your dead cory have hollow(concaved) stomach? It seems to me, all the one pass away have concaved stomach. And I sometimes wonder that if I am feeding enough. Because I know how big apptite cory has. I swear my Panda would eat all day if I feed them all day. `
Anyway, I just wonder what kind of food you are feeding.

 

[smithrc]

i thought that... checked the temp (less oxygen at higher temps) and it was fine - turned on the air from the filter too and upped the flow - no difference.

all the other wish were fine - they just did it one by one. the 4 we have now are about 1.5" now and going strong though

 

[Oddball]

Mmmm well this is gonna be tough then, perhaps these little corries arent that tough, to be honest, now i think of it i had peppered corries mysteriously die.........the answer was actually rather odd, the aquarists compost that i used at the time was apparently rather tasty for these corries who just pigged out on it. When i noticed this a cross section came into play and it was stuffed full of the stuff. Removing the wee corries to a tank that did not have this compost (i.e. back to the shop!) saw that none of them died!

 

[NEON98101]

Oddball
What are you saying? The thing call "aquarists compost" kept the small frys survive? If so please tell me more about it. How can I get it and what it is and stuff. I could use the magic stuff to keep my fry survive and grow better. Thanks.

 

[Oddball]

No they ate the compost for some weird reason and died, so i took them away (those taht were left) to a tank where they could not eat it and they stopped dying weird huh?