My 6" silver aro just died today. I found it just barely able to swim around as my aqua clear 110 filter was pushing it around the tank with its current. I took it and moved it to an established 15 gallon tank I had already set up for quarantine but, it died within minutes in the new tank.
Earlier this morning it ate just fine. It ate 8 pieces of hikari floating pellets. Hours later it was just barely able to swim in my 120g tank and would soon die.
Any ideas on what killed it? I had it for 21 days.
The first 10days I had it in a 10g quarantine and it was eating just fine as well. I even put some parasite clear in there with some melafix in the tank. I then introduced into the 120g with the other fish in my signature. While on ocasion the flagtail would chase it during feedings as did the yo yo loaches during feeding times they pretty much left it alone. It had no missing scales nor ripped fins some I'm doubting that it was the tank mates who killed it.
My water readings are as follows:
Nitrate 20ppm
Nitrite 0
150 hardness
110 gh
60 kh
6.5 PH
I was planning on doing a wc this weekend.
A month before, I had lost my 10" silver which strangely only grew 2" in like 6 months with daily feedings of market prawn and omega one flake and when I first got it, it was eating krill, fd shrimp and fd krill and frozen beefheart. It just started swimming really low to the tank and then I found it floating vertically head first.
Could I have some sort of parasite or illness in the tank that is only killing my aros? My stingray, dat and flagtail and loaches are doing just fine... I am truly baffled. I'd like to get another aro, but I'd like to find out what may have been the cause of death.
I'm thinking that since my 6" aro was still fairly new, it might have had something from before I even bought it and this led to its death.
Or perhaps the 2 silver aro deaths within 2 months are somehow related. It stinks... I've raised up other aros in the past which I've rehomed for various reasons. So I just don't know what got to this poor little aro.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
Earlier this morning it ate just fine. It ate 8 pieces of hikari floating pellets. Hours later it was just barely able to swim in my 120g tank and would soon die.
Any ideas on what killed it? I had it for 21 days.
The first 10days I had it in a 10g quarantine and it was eating just fine as well. I even put some parasite clear in there with some melafix in the tank. I then introduced into the 120g with the other fish in my signature. While on ocasion the flagtail would chase it during feedings as did the yo yo loaches during feeding times they pretty much left it alone. It had no missing scales nor ripped fins some I'm doubting that it was the tank mates who killed it.
My water readings are as follows:
Nitrate 20ppm
Nitrite 0
150 hardness
110 gh
60 kh
6.5 PH
I was planning on doing a wc this weekend.
A month before, I had lost my 10" silver which strangely only grew 2" in like 6 months with daily feedings of market prawn and omega one flake and when I first got it, it was eating krill, fd shrimp and fd krill and frozen beefheart. It just started swimming really low to the tank and then I found it floating vertically head first.
Could I have some sort of parasite or illness in the tank that is only killing my aros? My stingray, dat and flagtail and loaches are doing just fine... I am truly baffled. I'd like to get another aro, but I'd like to find out what may have been the cause of death.
I'm thinking that since my 6" aro was still fairly new, it might have had something from before I even bought it and this led to its death.
Or perhaps the 2 silver aro deaths within 2 months are somehow related. It stinks... I've raised up other aros in the past which I've rehomed for various reasons. So I just don't know what got to this poor little aro.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
just thought i share my experience, good luck though 
