Has this happened to anyone yet?
You buy a nice small maybe 3-5" baby Marble x Red Tail hybrid Catfish from an online dealer because its the coolest/newest "sounding" rarest hybrid catfish you have ever seen in your life!? Like this one:
YES! Cool/Small and a potential monster this fish seems amazing!
From the first moment it hits the water its the new favorite in your tank, eating out of your hand almost immediately.
You feed it a mixed diet, keep its water clean, and before you know it its been close to 2 months since you have had the little vacuum of a fish! Its grown double its size since you purchased it and its the most amazing looking monster in your tank.
Then you come downstairs early in the next morning only to find this:
!DEAD!
The expression on your face resembles this in sequence
WHAT HAPPENED!? You rush to check you water perameters...nitrate, nitrites, ammonia, ph balance... ALL OF IT IS PERFECT... then you look in your tank and see this:
Happy, swimming fish!
Why has your beautiful new baby hybrid died when all of your other fish are fine? What could have went wrong in your perfect water perameters? Did you buy a dud(a hybrid with genetically inferior gene traits)?
WHY IN THE WORLD DID THIS HAPPEN?
Well, this thread is dedicated to any and all who have lost their hybrids from mysterious deaths! I want to close in on exactly what, when, why, and how these fish are dying in such great numbers under the care of knowledged monster fish keepers.
Please post pictures of any sudden strange hybrid catfish deaths maybe then we can close in on the problem/problems plaguing some of the hybrid keeping community!
Who knows maybe this could become a sticky?(Mods Please Read)
You buy a nice small maybe 3-5" baby Marble x Red Tail hybrid Catfish from an online dealer because its the coolest/newest "sounding" rarest hybrid catfish you have ever seen in your life!? Like this one:
YES! Cool/Small and a potential monster this fish seems amazing!
From the first moment it hits the water its the new favorite in your tank, eating out of your hand almost immediately.
You feed it a mixed diet, keep its water clean, and before you know it its been close to 2 months since you have had the little vacuum of a fish! Its grown double its size since you purchased it and its the most amazing looking monster in your tank.
Then you come downstairs early in the next morning only to find this:
!DEAD!
The expression on your face resembles this in sequence
WHAT HAPPENED!? You rush to check you water perameters...nitrate, nitrites, ammonia, ph balance... ALL OF IT IS PERFECT... then you look in your tank and see this:
Happy, swimming fish!
Why has your beautiful new baby hybrid died when all of your other fish are fine? What could have went wrong in your perfect water perameters? Did you buy a dud(a hybrid with genetically inferior gene traits)?
WHY IN THE WORLD DID THIS HAPPEN?
Well, this thread is dedicated to any and all who have lost their hybrids from mysterious deaths! I want to close in on exactly what, when, why, and how these fish are dying in such great numbers under the care of knowledged monster fish keepers.
Please post pictures of any sudden strange hybrid catfish deaths maybe then we can close in on the problem/problems plaguing some of the hybrid keeping community!
Who knows maybe this could become a sticky?(Mods Please Read)