Ordered 3 dwarf sydontis catfish about an inch long from live Aquaria. They get here ok. 1 dies within a few hours (water parameters were good). Just caught one stuck in the filter dead. Idk how he got wedged in the filter. Im Down to 1 about a week later. It’s just so hard when these fish are this small it feels like every day I just hope they are alive and some freak accident didn’t happen. Idk maybe just bad luck but I’m super bummed about the situation paid a lot of money $80 and it’s just a bad situation all around.
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Contact liveaquaria, unless they’ve changed, they had a no questions asked two week guarantee on fish
When you say water parameters are good, what does that mean?
What is the pH, nitrate, and hardness of your water, compared with the water they were shipped in?
Shipping is stressful for any fish, and if your parameters are drastically different than how they were raised (a very distinct possibility), it could be enough to cause problems,
Also
were the new fish put in a quarantine tank?
QT while usually thought of as protection for fish in your main tank
is also about gradually helping new fish adapt to whatever bacteria or parameters might be in the main tank.
Your old fish may have developed an immunity to something the new fish do not have immunity to.
I quarantine all new fish for a minimum of 3 months before adding to the main tank (community), gradually adding water from the tank they will go into, a little at a time.
In this way, the new fish develop resistance to whatever is in that water, and to the general water parameters.
This also protects your old fish from being subjected to a barrage of bacteria if the new fish get sick, overwhelm their developed immunity, and possibly start an new epidemic.
It often takes 3 months for certain diseases to present visually.
A friend who runs (ran)the aquatic exhibit at the Milwaukee zoo, Qts all new arrivals, for no less than 6 months.
What is the pH, nitrate, and hardness of your water, compared with the water they were shipped in?
Shipping is stressful for any fish, and if your parameters are drastically different than how they were raised (a very distinct possibility), it could be enough to cause problems,
Also
were the new fish put in a quarantine tank?
QT while usually thought of as protection for fish in your main tank
is also about gradually helping new fish adapt to whatever bacteria or parameters might be in the main tank.
Your old fish may have developed an immunity to something the new fish do not have immunity to.
I quarantine all new fish for a minimum of 3 months before adding to the main tank (community), gradually adding water from the tank they will go into, a little at a time.
In this way, the new fish develop resistance to whatever is in that water, and to the general water parameters.
This also protects your old fish from being subjected to a barrage of bacteria if the new fish get sick, overwhelm their developed immunity, and possibly start an new epidemic.
It often takes 3 months for certain diseases to present visually.
A friend who runs (ran)the aquatic exhibit at the Milwaukee zoo, Qts all new arrivals, for no less than 6 months.
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It's down to 7 days now
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I noticed that bc I check their freshwater Divers den every day. (For last two months, they seem to not be posting as many on there as they used to. They used to post new fish every weekday.)
OP:
That sucks. My first experience getting new fish after like a 20 year hiatus was 3 small clown loaches from an LFS where I got my original clown loaches in 95. Two were dead the next day and that prompted me to try online. My first order was from Divers Den and then I also ordered from Imperial Tropicals.
Sometimes you just lose fish. I just lost a Dority I got from Divers Den in 2018. Dont know what happened. Just found him dead today and they seemed great over the last week.