(I keep fish with my housemate so I'll accidently use we intermittently)
We lost 2 yesterday to what appeared to be bloat/constipation. We had been feeding the tank a mixture of cichlid attack and spirulna pellets (the cichlid attack was for the other meat eating fish) up until about 3 weeks or so ago when our first died from apparent bloat.
I concluded it was caused from the cichlid attack and we stopped feeding that knowing the omnivorous tankmates would survive until we could separate them. Even without the cichlid attack the demasoni in the tank spawn away as do the convicts.
Then this weekend we notice a glut of food on the bottom of the tank, we cleaned the tank and sucked out the food and related fungus or slime that had developed on it. Tuesday night we find 2 dead duboisi And we discover the contractor has been feeding my fish when in the house. We realize this because there are 3 table spoons worth of cichlid attack sitting in the bottom of our glass bottom fry tank (no body feeds the fry cichlid attack, they can't eat it.)
Forgive that long story.
My question is do you guys think the dubosi died from visible bloat/constipation caused by the contractor feeding them cichlid attack, or from eating the eggs of my spawning fish?
I know this is a silly question but I've confronted them about this and I'm trying to determine liability and if I should get compensation for the deaths.
We lost 2 yesterday to what appeared to be bloat/constipation. We had been feeding the tank a mixture of cichlid attack and spirulna pellets (the cichlid attack was for the other meat eating fish) up until about 3 weeks or so ago when our first died from apparent bloat.
I concluded it was caused from the cichlid attack and we stopped feeding that knowing the omnivorous tankmates would survive until we could separate them. Even without the cichlid attack the demasoni in the tank spawn away as do the convicts.
Then this weekend we notice a glut of food on the bottom of the tank, we cleaned the tank and sucked out the food and related fungus or slime that had developed on it. Tuesday night we find 2 dead duboisi And we discover the contractor has been feeding my fish when in the house. We realize this because there are 3 table spoons worth of cichlid attack sitting in the bottom of our glass bottom fry tank (no body feeds the fry cichlid attack, they can't eat it.)
Forgive that long story.
My question is do you guys think the dubosi died from visible bloat/constipation caused by the contractor feeding them cichlid attack, or from eating the eggs of my spawning fish?
I know this is a silly question but I've confronted them about this and I'm trying to determine liability and if I should get compensation for the deaths.
