'How are you managing to keep a 0 nitrate reading?'
Water changes
'Spot on for pH doesn't really mean anything'
Fair point, 6.0 to 6.1, never moves much because we only use ro, just gone to test again and can't find the kit, was 6.1 this morning, 7 hours ago
'What was the pH?'
Last test before the death was 6.0 done about a week or go
'How many gallons is the tank?'
63-64 usgal, 53 ukgal, 240 litres
'Do you feed garlic very often?
hard to answer, our discus importer/everything else, dropped off the map around 6 months ago, we used to buy food mixed by them, which had garlic in it but as it was a 'home made' brand it was very messy, fish loved it btw. Never had any hith head problems since
'What color was the fish feces?'
Honestly don't know, apart from the odd bit of food waste it the tank, there is nothing much to clean up
'What is your WC schedule?'
5 ukgal, 6 usgal, 22.5 litres, daily
'What is the tank setup?'
Bare bottom, 2 pieces of bog wood with plants attached(java), one filter internal juwel jumbo, 1000 lph powerhead, 2 heaters, one ext filter teratec 1200(carbon removed) 1200 lph
'Any tankmates?'
2 blue turks, 2 red turks, one blue diamond, one baby cobalt, one baby pigeon blood and a plec that we never see as it lives under the bogwood
'What were you doing immediately before feeding them last?'
Not wanting to sound 'off' or anything here, but watching tv
'Do you have any stray voltage in the tank?'
No
'Have you cleaned your filter recently?'
Yes last week and they were reasonably clean
'How well is your filter running?'
See above
'What kind of filter is it? '
see above
'These questions will help towards figuring out a problem. Generally if the leader of the pack dies, it is a bad sign for the rest of your discus.'
The Blue diamond was it's best mate, we got them 12 months ago and came from separate tanks but bonded straight away and took over, quickly grew and overtook the rest. Now the rest of the pack follow it around but it does look a bit lonely, I think it's just missing it's best bud.
The rest are all still feeding fine and still give you that 'feed me' dance they do when you come into the room.
One of the red turks has darkened slightly in colour of the past weeks but is still feeding fine, I'm reluctant to use any meds for the next week or to make sure everything is ok.
2sybs, I can't see a contamination issue because when we feed the blocks they all come and attack the food out of our hands, if there was a problem this way then we should have lost them all, good idea though..
I lost 3 of mine last week.