Damnit I hate losing fish especially when I don't know why

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CTU2fan

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Came home last night @ 8, fed the fish, turned on the Flyers game. This is my usual routine on w/c night as they generally don't all want to eat right afteer I w/c, so I feed them and do the w/c an hour or so later. Everybody ate, including my senegalus. Well the game ends and I walk over to the tank to grab my Python and there's my sen lying on his back stone dead. No clue why. I'm 99% sure it's not a water quality issue, my water tests ok and I have more w/q sensitive fish (pinktail chal, arowana) that would be affected first. The only thing I've done different recently is cover up some openings in the top so the aro can't jump.

He ate hikari carnivore and f/d krill last night.

This really sucks. :mad::swear::swear::swear:
 
Wow... Out of nowhere?


I'm very sorry to hear that... It's always worse when you don't know how/why it happened...:(
 
probably no space for the sen to gulp in some oxygen....coz they tend to come up for oxygen time after time.
 
peewee;2892783; said:
probably no space for the sen to gulp in some oxygen....coz they tend to come up for oxygen time after time.
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thats a good possibility. now it makes me think about my ornate. i think i am going to switch him to my 75 for a lil bit. thanks for the thought.

sorry for your loss. they are really good fish. i'd hate to find mine dead.
 
not just coming up just the fact that we make it so arow jumping proof that we basically seal the tank. would it be bad if we basically put a tank in a plastic bag and sealed it but still provided areation? probably a dumb thought.
 
I have space because of the overflow, probably 1.5-2 inches of clearance between the surface and top. That's why I never worried about the open spaces because my sen couldn't reach the holes. What I am thinking is that with the w/d off the air may have gotten a bit stagnant above the surface. The other fish were a bit sluggish and are a lot more "perky" this morning. This really sucks.

Edit: Lucky I didn't lose my gar as well (trying to look on the bright side).
 
I've been told filling to the bottom of the rim is more than fine.


No other factors AT ALL you can attribute to this?
 
Not really. I'm going with the close top/no airflow as a cause unless somebody has a good reason why it's not. I don't aerate specifically as I get a ton of surface agitation from my w/d return pump, but with it off none of that was happening (my fx5's return is underwater).

Something else though...a couple of months ago my sen was doing this funny rolling thing when he swam, basically rocking side to side. It got pretty bad, to where he was almost fully on one side before rolling back the other way...but it stopped awhile ago and he'd been acting perfectly normal.
 
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