Well, I woke up this morning and noticed 1 of my 12 tetras alone from the group. Upon closer inspection he seemed to have a large red mark on his side. He was swimming pretty slow and looked like he was in bad shape. I felt this was a good time to use the vodka/frozen water treatment for a fast euthanization, which surprisingly, it was.
I thought it was some sort of internal parasite or a infection, but after getting a good look, it actually looks like something took a mean chunk out of its side.
It was one of the 4 new long-finned skirt tetras that I bought, of which they're the first fish I've ever bought at petsmart (all other fish have been bought from LFS).
I have a 3.25" firemouth, and 11 long/short fin black skirt tetras in my 29g now.
Could he not have been accepted and attacked by the school, or was he a victim of my firemouth? My firemouth has never shown any aggression to the tetras and was raised with them from 1.5" for the last 7 months.
I thought it was some sort of internal parasite or a infection, but after getting a good look, it actually looks like something took a mean chunk out of its side.
It was one of the 4 new long-finned skirt tetras that I bought, of which they're the first fish I've ever bought at petsmart (all other fish have been bought from LFS).
I have a 3.25" firemouth, and 11 long/short fin black skirt tetras in my 29g now.
Could he not have been accepted and attacked by the school, or was he a victim of my firemouth? My firemouth has never shown any aggression to the tetras and was raised with them from 1.5" for the last 7 months.
