Big house move yesterday, but not the fish tank.
Woke up early and started to move furniture. Workmen came and started at 8 a.m. As soon as they started my RTG started to act strange. Panting and losing slime coat.
I acted quickly and covered the tank,switch lights off and added salt. It started to calm down but was still panting as little bit by 9.30a.m. It seemed ok. 12p.m it seemed normal, no signs of panting but still shedding slime a little, i just presumed this was from early morning and nothing to worry about.
2p.m a friend said they looked at it and it was swimming normally. I was at the new house so i didn't see it. 5P.M i went back to0 the old house and it was belly up dead in the corner of the tank.
Why did it die?
Things that were a bit strange over the last few days. I puked twice. It's done this before so i wasn't overly bothered. It looked like it had something stuck in its throat the night before last. I threw some MS in for the dats and it was particularly hard. The RTG snapped a piece up and it looked like it tried to swallow without chewing. It soon resumed swimming as normal though.
On the day of the move there was fish puke in the tank against and it had pellets in it!
I think the 10 weeks without food is what killed it, along with it eating too much after such a long time without food. When i started to feed it worms again (to get it strong before the tank move) i was careful not to over feed. Not careful enough it seems.
The carcass had a little bit of blood round the anus but I'm not sure it that's normal with a dead fish.
Upset? No. Not even when i found it, i've read of grown men crying and all that but it just didn't affect me that way.
Angry? You better believe it!! It died because of something i did i presume and that annoys me. And because i didn't see it coming. I was jsut getting to the point when i thought i had fish keeping nailed.
What next? Not really sure. Super Red maybe. HBRTG or XBack maybe. Can't really justify having a monster tank without a monster fish can i?
Woke up early and started to move furniture. Workmen came and started at 8 a.m. As soon as they started my RTG started to act strange. Panting and losing slime coat.
I acted quickly and covered the tank,switch lights off and added salt. It started to calm down but was still panting as little bit by 9.30a.m. It seemed ok. 12p.m it seemed normal, no signs of panting but still shedding slime a little, i just presumed this was from early morning and nothing to worry about.
2p.m a friend said they looked at it and it was swimming normally. I was at the new house so i didn't see it. 5P.M i went back to0 the old house and it was belly up dead in the corner of the tank.
Why did it die?
Things that were a bit strange over the last few days. I puked twice. It's done this before so i wasn't overly bothered. It looked like it had something stuck in its throat the night before last. I threw some MS in for the dats and it was particularly hard. The RTG snapped a piece up and it looked like it tried to swallow without chewing. It soon resumed swimming as normal though.
On the day of the move there was fish puke in the tank against and it had pellets in it!
I think the 10 weeks without food is what killed it, along with it eating too much after such a long time without food. When i started to feed it worms again (to get it strong before the tank move) i was careful not to over feed. Not careful enough it seems.
The carcass had a little bit of blood round the anus but I'm not sure it that's normal with a dead fish.
Upset? No. Not even when i found it, i've read of grown men crying and all that but it just didn't affect me that way.
Angry? You better believe it!! It died because of something i did i presume and that annoys me. And because i didn't see it coming. I was jsut getting to the point when i thought i had fish keeping nailed.
What next? Not really sure. Super Red maybe. HBRTG or XBack maybe. Can't really justify having a monster tank without a monster fish can i?
