Dat dying

[Ade]

I bought a 20 gal, and set it up. Don't I need to let it cycle b4 moving the dat into it?

I think moving him will just stress him out even more, so i would not move him.

Add some air stones, keep lights off, reduce wc's to once every 2 days 25 - 30% (this will reduce big fluctautions in water params, that u get with massive water changes).

doesn't sound good though, especially the green poo.

 

[cbbuff]

I appreciate the help. I rechecked and the ammonia was back to 0 (bad test 1st time?).

Anyway, he died

I took a photo post-mortem so I can at least know what it was. He had red, inflamed skin around his top fin - can anyone ID it? What should I have tried to reverse it?

 

[Ade]

Sorry to hear. Could have been a heater burn that finished him off.

Did it exhibit signs of heavy breathing before it passed away?

Not much you could have done to treat it, unless you could have diagnosed the problem in the first place.

 

[ettfettbranamn]

seen that before.. sorry mate.. all of us who keep dats in some scale takes this beating once in a while.. I had 10 die on me a year ago.. spoke to some friends over here, the entire shipment died in a matter of weeks.. and the ntt are the weakest of them.. I feel for you, takes dedication to raise dats and they are very personable.. again sorry man!

 

[Nutish]

I am very sorry 4 that!!!
Maybe pH!!

 

[cbbuff]

He was not heavy breathing and was not by the heater I didn't see the red until after he was dead. I'd really like to ID what it might have been, but I guess sometimes you don't know. All the tankmates looking good.

 

[bomber]

SOrry to hear. I know how you feel. I lost a few for no reason also.

 

[q_fish]

sorry for your loss.. that a pretty big dat =(

 

[bongko]

my condolences

 

[pURPLEcHILLIrED123]

I had 5 NTT that died from the same thing. I would notice the smallest red spot and then the next day... BOOM, that spot would balloon to 5X's the size of what it was the night before.