Fire eel help

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Bret11

Bret11

Jack Dempsey
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I need some help on keeping fire eels alive, I’ve had 2 fire eels in the past in my 125 at separate times with other non aggressive fish, my water conditions were perfect and I was feeding them black worms and frozen blood worms and they were eating just fine but then out of no where they would just die. What could I have done wrong?
 
What are the parameters and temps
 
Bret11 said:
Temp is 79, ph is 7.0, ammonia and nitrite were 0.
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What was ur nitrate? What are the tank-mates specifically? Is ur heater covered? Would try feeding just the black worms soaked in Boyd’s vitachem instead of the bloodworms.
 
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I’m not sure about the nitrate but I’ll check when I get home and the heater was not covered, the tankmates were severums, geophagus, uaru and a pleco.
kno4te said:
What was ur nitrate? What are the tank-mates specifically? Is ur heater covered? Would try feeding just the black worms soaked in Boyd’s vitachem instead of the bloodworms.
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kno4te said:
What was ur nitrate? What are the tank-mates specifically? Is ur heater covered? Would try feeding just the black worms soaked in Boyd’s vitachem instead of the bloodworms.
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how many drops are you putting on your food? Are you adding the food to tank water then adding the drops and letting it sit?
 
Oskie Boy said:
how many drops are you putting on your food? Are you adding the food to tank water then adding the drops and letting it sit?
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I dip it in there cause it’s thick and feed. Use a medicine measuring cup. The ones from a liquid otc antihistamine to soak a bit of it in there.
 
When you say they both died can we get more details??? Was the body: bloated / skinny / scarred / dark / pale?

Also, how long had you kept each eel before their demise???

Lastly, any sign they could have been infected by IP’s?
 
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