Hey i just recently added two new satanoperca lucostica to my prized collection and now all of them died.
i am trying to get down to the basics of why and how.
let me explain what has happened first.
i have been keeping some jumbo lucosticas for quite some time trying to grow them even larger to go in with my ray tank.a while back some of them got hole in the head.i teated it with salt and metro.i also read that keeping these fish in high ph 8 like our tap water causes that problem sa cichlids.so i decided to buffer down with powder and add some amazon blackwater liquid because i wanted to encourage breeding.
on boxing day i found two decent sized ones at a lfs that the store owner told me had been their for 2 months.i added the two into the tank they both ate for the first two days than dropped like flies.after their deaths i noticed all of my jumbos were acting sick.and i could notice foggy eyes and fungus coming out of the gills, but what was coming out of the gills was darker in color maybe grey not you common white,so it leads me to beleive maybe it was not fungus but some sort of infection of infestation.i now lost all my jumbos minus one that i am nursing in pristine water in a seperate tank with a high salinity level and temp of about 31 or 89 degrees.
their were a total of 10 small lucostica
4 medium and 4 jumbos.
only one medium and one jumbo is still alive and all the smaller ones seem perfect,but they too are new additions and have not been in that tank that long.
i am trying to get down to the basics of why and how.
let me explain what has happened first.
i have been keeping some jumbo lucosticas for quite some time trying to grow them even larger to go in with my ray tank.a while back some of them got hole in the head.i teated it with salt and metro.i also read that keeping these fish in high ph 8 like our tap water causes that problem sa cichlids.so i decided to buffer down with powder and add some amazon blackwater liquid because i wanted to encourage breeding.
on boxing day i found two decent sized ones at a lfs that the store owner told me had been their for 2 months.i added the two into the tank they both ate for the first two days than dropped like flies.after their deaths i noticed all of my jumbos were acting sick.and i could notice foggy eyes and fungus coming out of the gills, but what was coming out of the gills was darker in color maybe grey not you common white,so it leads me to beleive maybe it was not fungus but some sort of infection of infestation.i now lost all my jumbos minus one that i am nursing in pristine water in a seperate tank with a high salinity level and temp of about 31 or 89 degrees.
their were a total of 10 small lucostica
4 medium and 4 jumbos.
only one medium and one jumbo is still alive and all the smaller ones seem perfect,but they too are new additions and have not been in that tank that long.
