bought a pbass last saturday and it died on monday seemed ok the first day not to active but on sunday he was swimming upside down and kicking it in one corner of the tank next morning found him dead. any ideas on what this could be??
peacock bass
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what was the tempature.... my friend is a real big peacock bass keeper... he once told me that when they are babies they need extremely warm water above 78 degrees... i don't know if thats true though..
Like 82 degrees prevent ich and did you check your water? next time keep the water at like 82 and clean id turn the lights off for the first few days. Also aclimate it correctly.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be the cause?
We bought a Peacock Bass that was very fast and very healthy in the shop. Travel time between shop and home was only approx 10 mins maybe 15 mins at best and when we put him in the large tank (our tank) he wasn't moving as fast as in his original tank but we just assumed he was acclimating to the water and of course the surrounding.
Anyhow, one of the fishes were picking on him but he didn't seem to be getting him, just chasing him around. When Hubby came home from work we saw the PB swimming upside down but then he swam off again when the other fish tried to chase him, but then he'd go upside down again
We segregated him, put anti-biotics + salt but he's now floating upside down at the top of the tank rather than the bottom and not swimming at all, he's still alive but barely. We want to buy another one but at $600/ea here in Australia we want to ensure that this doesn't happen again.
Hence, we want to try and figure the cause of it...any ideas?
PS:- We had a baby one that had nearly been eaten by an arowana as in the aro was swimming with it in it's mouth (head out) and that recovered, this one being a lot larger...well I thought it'd be a lot hardier than the baby one but alas this one seemed to have deteriorated a lot quicker. We seen it swimming but when not swimming going upside down, and we moved him to a hospital tank and now he's deteriorated worse.
We bought a Peacock Bass that was very fast and very healthy in the shop. Travel time between shop and home was only approx 10 mins maybe 15 mins at best and when we put him in the large tank (our tank) he wasn't moving as fast as in his original tank but we just assumed he was acclimating to the water and of course the surrounding.
Anyhow, one of the fishes were picking on him but he didn't seem to be getting him, just chasing him around. When Hubby came home from work we saw the PB swimming upside down but then he swam off again when the other fish tried to chase him, but then he'd go upside down again
We segregated him, put anti-biotics + salt but he's now floating upside down at the top of the tank rather than the bottom and not swimming at all, he's still alive but barely. We want to buy another one but at $600/ea here in Australia we want to ensure that this doesn't happen again.
Hence, we want to try and figure the cause of it...any ideas?
PS:- We had a baby one that had nearly been eaten by an arowana as in the aro was swimming with it in it's mouth (head out) and that recovered, this one being a lot larger...well I thought it'd be a lot hardier than the baby one but alas this one seemed to have deteriorated a lot quicker. We seen it swimming but when not swimming going upside down, and we moved him to a hospital tank and now he's deteriorated worse.
