* warning contains a photo of a dead fish!
Sorry for the long post:
I had a Betta in my community aquarium but a lot of people recommended they should live in a aquarium of their own, so I set up a small aquarium to move him into.
I filled the small aquarium with water out of my mature community aquarium.
I also added Seachem Stability (says if used daily for 7 days that fish can go straight in)
and I added Special blend (basically a Biological ecosystem in a bottle) to aid the filter etc.
Between using mature water, the Stability and the Special blend, I thought the aquarium would be fine.
I added my Betta and my Bulldog plec into the small aquarium. They seemed fine, both active etc.
Within a few hours the Plec died, his underside had turned black (I don't know what this would mean).
In a panic - as I didn't want to risk losing the Betta too, I took my Betta out and put him back into the community aquarium.
I tested the water in the small aquarium but the only reading that was different was the PH - which had raised from approx 6.8 up to 7.6
I had the Plec for 11 months and he didn't seem to reach full size (could there have been something wrong with him eg genetically?) so could this, coupled with the stress of moving between the 2 aquariums have killed him?
or would it have been the PH that killed him?
Betta is fine, he's still active and doesn't seem affected.
I would like to try find out the reason for my Plec dying so that I know whether it will be safe for my Betta or if I need to do something first etc.
Photo of my Bulldog Plec's underside when he died:
Sorry for the long post:
I had a Betta in my community aquarium but a lot of people recommended they should live in a aquarium of their own, so I set up a small aquarium to move him into.
I filled the small aquarium with water out of my mature community aquarium.
I also added Seachem Stability (says if used daily for 7 days that fish can go straight in)
and I added Special blend (basically a Biological ecosystem in a bottle) to aid the filter etc.
Between using mature water, the Stability and the Special blend, I thought the aquarium would be fine.
I added my Betta and my Bulldog plec into the small aquarium. They seemed fine, both active etc.
Within a few hours the Plec died, his underside had turned black (I don't know what this would mean).
In a panic - as I didn't want to risk losing the Betta too, I took my Betta out and put him back into the community aquarium.
I tested the water in the small aquarium but the only reading that was different was the PH - which had raised from approx 6.8 up to 7.6
I had the Plec for 11 months and he didn't seem to reach full size (could there have been something wrong with him eg genetically?) so could this, coupled with the stress of moving between the 2 aquariums have killed him?
or would it have been the PH that killed him?
Betta is fine, he's still active and doesn't seem affected.
I would like to try find out the reason for my Plec dying so that I know whether it will be safe for my Betta or if I need to do something first etc.
Photo of my Bulldog Plec's underside when he died:
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