ATF Died

[mike C]

Ah man, My ATF (vit) died today. I took down his tank for cleaning and re-used the water he was originaly in,in his 45 gallon holding tank so there is no water problem and everybody else survived. I think he died of shock. What a shame he was about 10''. But my 15'' Rhom was happy.

 

[Druu]

Sorry for your loss man. Maybe damage from the temp holding tank?

 

[mike C]

no it's impossible, I syphoned the original tank water into my holding tank which was super clean as usual and had the atf in there within 5 min's and I also have a heater in the holding tank set to maintain the temp of the original water so there will be no fluctuations. It's a shame, but he had to go eventually as I'm reading more and more about H.Armatus and ATF's don't mix well at all and I have the Armatus too and he is a definate keeper.

 

[Bsixxx]

how did you place him in the tank?
did you pour him in or wrestle him with a net to get him out of the holding tank and then drop in the original tank?

 

[JD_MAN]

Sorry to hear that man...sucks.

 

[mike C]

how did you place him in the tank?
did you pour him in or wrestle him with a net to get him out of the holding tank and then drop in the original tank?

I used a net when the tank was 1/2 empty and caught him easily and just plopped him into the temp tank.

 

[Bsixxx]

I used a net when the tank was 1/2 empty and caught him easily and just plopped him into the temp tank.

that could have helped a great deal, thats a lot of stress on him

 

[Yakuza-Irezumi]

Sorry my friend,im sorry for your loss.

 

[kane1]

sorry to hear about your loss i lost y aft 2 weeks ago it got an infection and that was that

I know have 2 9-10" African pikes

kane

 

[mike C]

Thanks for the replies. The tank definatly has less action going on. I miss the poor little guy.