New baby micropeltis

[fishyman]

yesterday I noticed the snake head swimming really odd, up and down and size to side, looked like something neurological or something, didn't look like he was using his tail fin anymore either, just the side fins and spinning in the current in my tank instead of stabilizing himself like before, this morning I wake up and check to see if hes doing better, and hes dead. I did a water test yesterday and my water is hard but everything else is good, well nitrates where high but I did a partial water change, and all the other fish are great, I guess I must have gotten some infected feeder fish and he got sick and died on it? anyone had this happen? I called the shop today and no channa came in and hes not sure if he can get anymore..... freaking hell.... back to the drawing board, called another guy I spoke to before getting this guy, he said hell check his suppliers today and let me know tomorrow if he can track some down for me. Ill find out tomorrow, said hes got some suppliers who ship to him every week from china and tialand and he thinks he might be able to track down some channa but not sure which.

I see your micropeltes were very young babies (red line still highly visible) and at this stage of their life, they are very delicate, falling sick easily and sensitive to water conditions. I think what you did wrong was the hard water. I do not know what other conditions that little guy lived in but it is important to make things as stress-free as possible.

Some things I would NOT do:
* strong water current
* deep water

Water should NOT be hard. pH should be slightly acidic to neutral (7.0). Life food would be great but not goldfish and be careful of diseased feeders. Size should be small enough for the snakehead to EASILY swallow.

No mater high good is your aeration, how much dissolved oxygen in the water, the little snakehead still needs to come up the water surface to gulp air. Micropeltes natural environment is not one of strong current. Juveniles would find it very tough to swim against constant strong current. It's plain torture.

If you have one or two babies, a small plastic tank will fine but needs daily water change (if there isn't any filter) as they poop a lot . Water should be not have chlorine or chloramine.

 

[scharoel]

I see your micropeltes were very young babies (red line still highly visible) and at this stage of their life, they are very delicate, falling sick easily and sensitive to water conditions. I think what you did wrong was the hard water. I do not know what other conditions that little guy lived in but it is important to make things as stress-free as possible.

Some things I would NOT do:
* strong water current
* deep water

Water should NOT be hard. pH should be slightly acidic to neutral (7.0). Life food would be great but not goldfish and be careful of diseased feeders. Size should be small enough for the snakehead to EASILY swallow.

No mater high good is your aeration, how much dissolved oxygen in the water, the little snakehead still needs to come up the water surface to gulp air. Micropeltes natural environment is not one of strong current. Juveniles would find it very tough to swim against constant strong current. It's plain torture.

If you have one or two babies, a small plastic tank will fine but needs daily water change (if there isn't any filter) as they poop a lot . Water should be not have chlorine or chloramine.

Agree with you fishyman, and one more think is they should not have a tank mate due to their size. They feel stressed especially alone without same species. Same to us when we go other places alone and theres no one else could speak english .

 

[freebody]

thx guys it sounds like I really made a mess of this, 75 gallon tank with a fluval 406 and a fusion 700 series air pump in it, water has pretty strong currents, but there is a dead zone beside my pump outlet in the corner where the water was pretty calm, he seemed to be there every morning when I woke to get ready for school, I think he slept there. water is and hard but my ph is 7.5 ish maybe 7.0 hard for me to tell, I really think it was a bad feeder that got him, but with my conditions the way there were perhaps it was just a matter of time. at least im learning something from this. I had him about a week and things were great, swam all day with the 3 large goldfish I have in there, he seemed to follow them all around the tank, so I don't think it was stressed, I was also feeding him small rosies i think they are called, I was going to get him off feeders but he died so fast, all week he was doing great, non stop cruizing the tank with the gold fish looking great, following the 3 of them every where they went, the next hes swimming really odd, the next hes dead. I hope to get some more reds, if not pretty much any type of channa and get the tank set up better for them and try again. thx for the pointers.