Dead Carpintis

[RTCfan86]

I’ve had about a 3” carpintis for 9 days now. Anyways active and ate real well. All of a sudden yesterday morning he started sitting still in the gravel and stopped eating. This evening I found him on his side dead. I just tested my water parameters:

Ph: 7.6
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0

His belly did look a little full, figuring just from eating a lot. I feed New Life Spectrum Cichlid pellets in the morning, and frozen brine shrimp at night.

Any ideas here?

 

[Magnus_Bane]

I’ve had about a 3” carpintis for 9 days now. Anyways active and ate real well. All of a sudden yesterday morning he started sitting still in the gravel and stopped eating. This evening I found him on his side dead. I just tested my water parameters:

Ph: 7.6
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0

His belly did look a little full, figuring just from eating a lot. I feed New Life Spectrum Cichlid pellets in the morning, and frozen brine shrimp at night.

Any ideas here?

Could've died from stress or bloat. Besides that not quite sure what could've happened.

 

[HybridFinatic]

Possible uncycled tank. Especially if you been possibly over feeding the nitrate shouldn’t test 0.

 

[duanes]

What size tank?
How long has it been set up? (from day 1) How was it cycled?
Any other fish in the tank? if so what species? All added together?
Average temp?

 

[RTCfan86]

What size tank?
How long has it been set up? (from day 1) How was it cycled?
Any other fish in the tank? if so what species? All added together?
Average temp?

What size tank?
How long has it been set up? (from day 1) How was it cycled?
Any other fish in the tank? if so what species? All added together?
Average temp?

- 75 gallon
- Set up since 7/1/2020 (no deaths until now)
- To cycle: I put a few neons in there and filter media/plants from an established tank. Waited until all parameters leveled out before stocking.
- The tank contains a gold severum, blood parrot and EBJD. Largest fish is the 4” parrot, no bullies.
- Temp 78

 

[RTCfan86]

Possible uncycled tank. Especially if you been possibly over feeding the nitrate shouldn’t test 0.

I’m just going off of the closest color on the chart, but much closer to the 0 ppm color than the 5 ppm color. I never did have a spike in nitrites or nitrates, only watched the drop in ammonia and keep up with weekly water changes. I didn’t start adding fish until about 3 weeks after setup.

 

[Gourami Swami]

I would make sure you are testing correctly and that your test kits are not expired. First guess would be something wrong with the cycle since it is a new aquarium.
Anything else about the fish look odd? Raised scales perhaps?

 

[RTCfan86]

I would make sure you are testing correctly and that your test kits are not expired. First guess would be something wrong with the cycle since it is a new aquarium.
Anything else about the fish look odd? Raised scales perhaps?

Thanks for the reply. I’m not new to testing, and am following the directions properly. The tests don’t expire until 2025. No, the fish looked just fine. What was odd was he actually looked bluer than normal when I found him dead. It was a very sudden switch in behavior, and the other fish are all acting normal.

 

[Raka]

How often are you changing water? Is there an auto change system? Is the tank heavily planted?

 

[lp85253]

Thanks for the reply. I’m not new to testing, and am following the directions properly. The tests don’t expire until 2025. No, the fish looked just fine. What was odd was he actually looked bluer than normal when I found him dead. It was a very sudden switch in behavior, and the other fish are all acting normal.

don't discount the "random stress death" possibility.. after you exhaust all possible known causes don't fixate , it becomes counterproductive for future fishkeeping... iow sometimes poop just happens...