Quarantined feeders - many deaths

[geno]

i suggest you find a new source, i have never experienced stinky guppies...

Hi IITUFFTOBEATII, yup I'm seriously considering changing supplier. Abit more details on e smell, I can only describe it as the wet market of death. Honestly it smells like raw fish at e market, with a tinge of death like u noe e whole tank is condemned =PPPPPPPPP

 

[geno]

Ok declaring emergency now, today woke up and netted out 8 fish tt died overnight. Granted, some were attacked by e ghost shrimp (my shrimp are quite fierce they will even grab feeders tt are larger thant hemselves) but e majority prob died of disease. Gg to add anti-finrot medicine (most of e males have ragged fins) and see wad happens =(

 

[pcfriedrich]

my guess is that you don't have enough filtration to handle the bioload of all those feeders.

Especially if they smell.

 

[geno]

my guess is that you don't have enough filtration to handle the bioload of all those feeders.

Especially if they smell.

Hmm but pcfriedrich, they already smell once I buy them back from e lfs.. Once I open their bag in fact.. Or could e smell come from their blood?? Cos I notice e smell is greatest when there are dead gups due to being eaten by ghost shrimp. E shrimp will catch them and rip their bellies open, and chew off their fins. Maybe it's e blood mixed in with e water??

 

[pcfriedrich]

if they smell when you buy them, its a good indicator the LFS isn't using enough filtration for the bioload those feeders are producing. you are buying them already sick.

i'd find another supplier, or go with pellets or flakes.

 

[mysh]

i agree that you should have a seperated tank for the guppy add salt to kill parasites of the fish salt

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

why still even bother with these feeders, they are a health risk for your fish. why not use fresh tilapia from the local market

 

[Arachnar]

Hmm ,could very well be ammonia.

 

[koop171]

why do you not have a proper feer tank setup? putting feeders directly into the maintank is not something I would do and trust me I got a BIG feeder setup.

 

[dmed]

Hmmmm... could be your method of "quarantining" them in the bag?

If you can't keep a separate tank to QT feeders for an appropriate amount of time, I would suggest frozen foods or buying an artemia hatchery.