My baby 3" paratheraps breidohri was found dead this morning....I tested my water parameters to get 0 ammonia 0 nitrite and 10 nitrate. But days before his death, he was always hiding and rarely came out. Which was unusual for him as he was always grazing on the sand with the geos searching for food. I do plan on buying another batch (I bought mine alone, my LFS has 2" fry for sale) and grow them out in a separate tank (40 gallons) I put him in my 6" Vieja Maculicauda's 75 gallon tank in which he lives with a few geophagus red head tapajos who are 3" and a geophagus brasiliensis who is 5". I introduced him to the black belt (maculicauda) when he was only an inch, and the black belt completely ignored him. And I found him dead today, no pictures. The corpse was mangled to hell. He also looked like he hasn't eaten in days and was bone skinny, which was odd since he was still eating like a pig when he was in this stage. Anyone? 
