My Discus fish went beserk!

[fishbabe]

But the one that we kept for 3 months died too.

 

[Lupin]

Sorry to hear this, I know how it feels.. Are any alive? Do they look different than normal? Could just be internal diseases caused by something.

Internal parasites were not the problem. Judging from the OP's first post, the discus were not acclimated well which explained why they went berserk. It's called osmotic shock. The fish failed to adapt themselves to a totally different environment. If it were internal parasites, they wouldn't o berserk at all, merely listless and unable to appreciate any food given to them.

 

[fishbabe]

i cannot get discus locally, the shops here dont sell it cause they dont sell well.

 

[fishbabe]

have a question how come the one that we kept for 3 months died too?

 

[Malawi-]

Could be out of stress of others dying, or possibly the same reason the others did just at a different time..

 

[mrquad]

i'm so sorry for the loss..

 

[fishbabe]

Internal parasites were not the problem. Judging from the OP's first post, the discus were not acclimated well which explained why they went berserk. It's called osmotic shock. The fish failed to adapt themselves to a totally different environment. If it were internal parasites, they wouldn't o berserk at all, merely listless and unable to appreciate any food given to them.

does this mean Discus with different water conditions can never be together?

 

[fishbabe]

Ok i asked my dad and he actually did all those... he got the to adapt to the water. but they still went beserk.

 

[Freedomradio]

I'm pretty new that this as well... I made the same mistake. Just not with Discus. Get a test kit I use a laborett test kit.. test your water ... understand the levels.. Then try again. Most LFS can order them for you as long as it's in season. That suck's about your loss.

 

[fishbabe]

my dad did this, he pored a cup of tank water in the bag waite 20 minutes and then pored more till it has reached 1 hour, then he put the fish in.