My new Flowerhorn
- Thread starter Leasa
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Probably long winded, but a possibility. It could have been as goofy as something getting passed down from a parent fish. I had a tank full of beautiful short body carpintis that were doing awesome. Tank maintenance done religiously and no losses. Blues and pearls were amazing. I had an fx6, 304b, and an aq110, along with a couple large sponge filters, I was on the filtration. Plus 30% wc's every other day. That's usually about the time the nitrates would start to trend up a bit having that many growouts. Their behavior had me thinking I crashed my cycle or something, but I noticed white poop coming from one of them. It happens, but never like this. Usually you see it and have time to treat. This was my pride and joy batch so I was down there every few hours drooling over them the whole time they were growing up...lol. These fish started dropping like flies literally minutes later. They were their normal active little jerk selves a few hours before. I had 200 of them and a week later I had 9. A devastating week to say the least. I never had this problem with any of my other batches of anything else I have bred, even flowerhorn. It left me wondering what the heck happened until few months later, I had the same thing happen to a whole batch of red texas growouts. Common denominator.....father fish. I stopped breeding him and have had no issues like this since. I also have the survivors in a display. They're healthy and looking good, but not breeding any of them. Father was a pure carpintis.
