I had to leave town for 5 days and when I returned only two of my fish are alive.
Three weeks ago I traded all my Africans (fry) for 2 Peacock Bass and added some fake plants etc. I kept my 3 clown loaches, green phantom pleco, white dot pleco and common pleco. The only real change to the tank was that I was feeding live minnows to the bass. I felt that I took all the proper precautions but think that maybe the feeders passed something on. I also thought that maybe one of the fish died prior to us leaving that is what killed the other fish. I do water changes 2 times a week, about 20% and use salt and constantly monitor the PH. Now I haven't done any other water check but never have and have never lost fish until now.
The 2 survivors are the white dot and common pleco, everyone else died. The common looks normal and the white dot has a what appears to be mucas over his eyes but seems okay. I have moved both fish to a 5 gallon bucket keeping the water at 80 degrees also adding salt and treatment. Hope I'm doing the right thing, I'd like them to survive if possible.
If you have an ideas as to why this happened please share as I don't want to make the same mistake again.
75 gallon tank
2 emporor 400's
Pool filter sand bottom
2 fake plastic plants
6 river rocks on the bottom
Three weeks ago I traded all my Africans (fry) for 2 Peacock Bass and added some fake plants etc. I kept my 3 clown loaches, green phantom pleco, white dot pleco and common pleco. The only real change to the tank was that I was feeding live minnows to the bass. I felt that I took all the proper precautions but think that maybe the feeders passed something on. I also thought that maybe one of the fish died prior to us leaving that is what killed the other fish. I do water changes 2 times a week, about 20% and use salt and constantly monitor the PH. Now I haven't done any other water check but never have and have never lost fish until now.
The 2 survivors are the white dot and common pleco, everyone else died. The common looks normal and the white dot has a what appears to be mucas over his eyes but seems okay. I have moved both fish to a 5 gallon bucket keeping the water at 80 degrees also adding salt and treatment. Hope I'm doing the right thing, I'd like them to survive if possible.
If you have an ideas as to why this happened please share as I don't want to make the same mistake again.
75 gallon tank
2 emporor 400's
Pool filter sand bottom
2 fake plastic plants
6 river rocks on the bottom
