philrag11
New Member
Hi
After successful fishless cycling (blog on here somewhere) I got myself 6 White Cloud Minnows last week....sadly one of them never really looked happy and has since died. Not sure what was up with him - just seemed to hide away in the plants and was nowhere near as active as the other 5.
I 'lost' another one today and after a frantic search I finally found her underneath the Juwel filter - no idea how she got there as I had to shift gravel to create a path for her to get out! Was hoping I didn't have some disease in there that was slowly killing them off. She seems fine after her ordeal!
Anyway couple of questions came to mind as I was thinking how she could have 'died' when she looked fine!
My temp is around 76 / 77F which I know is high for minnows. At the moment though I can't seem to be able to get it down as the heater is off and even when I do a 33% water change it only comes down by 1 degree if that. I did 50% last week but again it only came down to 76F. Is that a problem since the UK summer is pretty short so its only going to be a month or so before it drops?!
Also I was at the LFS looking at frozen fish food to give the little guys a bit of a change from flake food and was told that they would struggle with anything other than baby brine shrimp? Seemed a bit strange to me but anyway I bought some baby shrimp and they loved them although I can't help thinking full size shrimp / daphnia would be well within their range?
Finally it seems I've now got 1 male to 4 females since the one that died was a male. Again is this a problem? I'm not planning on getting any more fish until mid-September (I'm on holiday part of the time)....
Sorry to lump all these three together but if anyone has any thoughts / advice it would be appreciated
Thanks
Phil
Juwel Rio 125
Ammonia and Nitrite 0ppm; Nitrate 20ppm
After successful fishless cycling (blog on here somewhere) I got myself 6 White Cloud Minnows last week....sadly one of them never really looked happy and has since died. Not sure what was up with him - just seemed to hide away in the plants and was nowhere near as active as the other 5.
I 'lost' another one today and after a frantic search I finally found her underneath the Juwel filter - no idea how she got there as I had to shift gravel to create a path for her to get out! Was hoping I didn't have some disease in there that was slowly killing them off. She seems fine after her ordeal!
Anyway couple of questions came to mind as I was thinking how she could have 'died' when she looked fine!
My temp is around 76 / 77F which I know is high for minnows. At the moment though I can't seem to be able to get it down as the heater is off and even when I do a 33% water change it only comes down by 1 degree if that. I did 50% last week but again it only came down to 76F. Is that a problem since the UK summer is pretty short so its only going to be a month or so before it drops?!
Also I was at the LFS looking at frozen fish food to give the little guys a bit of a change from flake food and was told that they would struggle with anything other than baby brine shrimp? Seemed a bit strange to me but anyway I bought some baby shrimp and they loved them although I can't help thinking full size shrimp / daphnia would be well within their range?
Finally it seems I've now got 1 male to 4 females since the one that died was a male. Again is this a problem? I'm not planning on getting any more fish until mid-September (I'm on holiday part of the time)....
Sorry to lump all these three together but if anyone has any thoughts / advice it would be appreciated
Thanks
Phil
Juwel Rio 125
Ammonia and Nitrite 0ppm; Nitrate 20ppm
