I'm going to monitor the water temp throughout the day. Another hypothesis of mine is the cory's eaten petals from the Ornamental Pear Tree that fell in, and it poisoned them. I think this is a long shot, but what do you guys think?
Rosy Barbs Won’t Eat
- Thread starter The Masked Shadow
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Always a possibility that something entered the water. The easiest thing to do is raise the water temperature and see if things improve.
Ok. The barbs are just sitting in the Dwarf Water Snowflake. On the other hand, this hitchhiker snail is one of my favorites lol. He moves around, scraping the stuff off the plastic plant pot, and the gravel.
So you brought fish that's acclimated to indoors constant same temperature and threw them outside and expected them to be ok. I wouldnt even do it with my own native fish that can survive freezing temperature with no issue. They would get shocked. Do it gradually though like nature does. Dropping the temperatures week by week. That's why they're able to live outside. Nature has ways to prepare them for the colder elements.
What I did was I acclimated them throughout the day. I put them in a bucket and spooned water in their every half hour. The Rosy Barbs were already in an outdoor pond. So I thought they would be fine. Exactly how am I supposed to do what you are suggesting??
That's more likely why you have zero deaths with the rosy barbs and bring inside the last cory survivor inside til spring when constant overnight temperature is 65 IMO those cats in my experience need gradual changes.
Start more cories inside to add with the lone survivor and QT them and do observation period til spring and try again later is my suggestion then let them back into the pond so you know 100% ur not putting sick fish back into the pond since getting it from a chain store if you still want to go with cories when tempersture is more stable later on. Some Cories are more fragile vs any other cats/plecos I've kept longterm
Start more cories inside to add with the lone survivor and QT them and do observation period til spring and try again later is my suggestion then let them back into the pond so you know 100% ur not putting sick fish back into the pond since getting it from a chain store if you still want to go with cories when tempersture is more stable later on. Some Cories are more fragile vs any other cats/plecos I've kept longterm
Heater in the container, and let it drop 1 degree per day until you are close to 50F. A heater controller with the heater is the easiest way to do this. Normally when you stock during the summer, the natural air temps will slowly bring the temp in the mini-pond down over time.
What size pond were they in at the dealer? Temperature swings in an actual pond of several hundred or several thousand gallons are much more gradual than they would be in a tiny 40-gallon tub.
Being able to live in cool temps does not equate to surviving abrupt changes of 10 or 20 degrees. The key is not only gradual acclimation but also gradual changes throughout the outdoor season.
Being able to live in cool temps does not equate to surviving abrupt changes of 10 or 20 degrees. The key is not only gradual acclimation but also gradual changes throughout the outdoor season.
