Armatus sudden death at 12"

[krichardson]

i actually heard the sudden death of most payara comes from living in harder water than they do in the wild and it takes around the same time to die from it so thats why everybody's payara die around the same duration of owning them.

This could be a possibility.

 

[1badspilo]

What all was in this tank?

A 7" pleco I have had forever and a small piranha that has been in the sump tank for months. I had no room for him and was trying to find it a home. That is it.

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Sorry....

 

[xander]

man that really sucks....
but i dont believe its the sudden death syndrome..

i dont believe in the syndromme either. was the pleco in the same tank?

 

[DB junkie]

Can you tell us more about WC schedule? Is it on a drip or just a bunch of WCs? Holding 5 PPM Nitrate is definetly a pretty difficult task.....

 

[1badspilo]

I grow a bunch of hornwort in a portion of my homemade sump. I always have plants in the sump to consume nitrates and they usually stay low especially with only a few fish stocking it. My one tank never shows nitrates because of all the plants. I normally do 2 20% changes a week with chlorine remover premixing the water. I do not have an RO unit though.

 

[1badspilo]

Pleco is in the same tank.

 

[1badspilo]

The tank has no gravel or sand...it is bare

 

[DB junkie]

Wow. I'm stumped. Pretty much out of ideas.... Was it treated for parasites after the transition to frozen food?

 

[1badspilo]

I do not think so.....JD7.62 had him for a few months and got him on frozen. He has been eating frozen for 8 months now.