So yesterday I came home to my male lyonsi with the biggest popeye infection I have ever saw. I took him out and put him in a quarantine tank and added some epsom salt, clean salt, no detergents, smells, etc, just plain ole salt. This worked for my pearsi but he wasnt this bad. I'm watching TV and I hear splashing, water falling on the floor only to find out the fish is spinning around in the tank. So I took him out and killed him.
I did a water change last night because I have done one in about 2 weeks becasue of the original issue I had before and I was treating the fish. Only did a 30% on the 500. Woke up this morning and my big male Nourisatti was dead, just yesterday he was fighting with other cichids, the Ragani to be exact like they and everyone else always do. Displaying beautiful colors, he ate shrimp as the rest of them did, etc. I got this fish from Dan, AmericanCichlids.net, it was her personal fish that she had for a while.
Water Paramenters again, came out fine.
I about gave up this morning, I made a list of the fish I had, etc, prices, etc. Then I got to looking on Google for why fish suddenly die. At first I was blaming the manzanita for the popeye, was thinking the fish were running into but not this many. Then I came upon Fish Tuberculosis, it seemed to fit my problem somewhat but the symptoms didnt match up. My fish are (looked) healthy from the outside, but what was going on in the inside??
Then came to Oxygen SuperSaturation, too much oxygen in the water, this make sense because I have two 8" round air disk ran by a mini compressor which is for outdoor ponds. Thing is I have had these disks in there since I got my tank but I had bigger fish in there such as my bass and big rays, Im sure they can get it too but I also didnt have this many fish to increase my chances of this issue.
So today I'm removing both disks and still continuing feeding them medicated fish food. If this doesnt work, Im probably going to be done, I cant afford this anymore...................
I did a water change last night because I have done one in about 2 weeks becasue of the original issue I had before and I was treating the fish. Only did a 30% on the 500. Woke up this morning and my big male Nourisatti was dead, just yesterday he was fighting with other cichids, the Ragani to be exact like they and everyone else always do. Displaying beautiful colors, he ate shrimp as the rest of them did, etc. I got this fish from Dan, AmericanCichlids.net, it was her personal fish that she had for a while.
Water Paramenters again, came out fine.
I about gave up this morning, I made a list of the fish I had, etc, prices, etc. Then I got to looking on Google for why fish suddenly die. At first I was blaming the manzanita for the popeye, was thinking the fish were running into but not this many. Then I came upon Fish Tuberculosis, it seemed to fit my problem somewhat but the symptoms didnt match up. My fish are (looked) healthy from the outside, but what was going on in the inside??
Then came to Oxygen SuperSaturation, too much oxygen in the water, this make sense because I have two 8" round air disk ran by a mini compressor which is for outdoor ponds. Thing is I have had these disks in there since I got my tank but I had bigger fish in there such as my bass and big rays, Im sure they can get it too but I also didnt have this many fish to increase my chances of this issue.
So today I'm removing both disks and still continuing feeding them medicated fish food. If this doesnt work, Im probably going to be done, I cant afford this anymore...................
