Why are my fish dying!!

[BCherdingthefish]

If they have being in the tank for a while, they are accommodated to the conditions. Or they are more resilient. Or it's not bad water; but without a test you just wouldn't know.


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I was planning on taking in a water sample to the store today, but my foster dog came to me matted & in seriousness of grooming, I spent hours fixing him up. Priorities... ): no time to go to the store. I'll do it tomorrow. I still don't think it's a water quality problem, I am good at keeping up with water changed. At least 50% each week.


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[Jay88]

water tests...would filter out the possibilities.

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[Jay88]

I was planning on taking in a water sample to the store today, but my foster dog came to me matted & in seriousness of grooming, I spent hours fixing him up. Priorities... ): no time to go to the store. I'll do it tomorrow. I still don't think it's a water quality problem, I am good at keeping up with water changed. At least 50% each week.


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doing 50% water changes weekly is not always a cure. For e.g. when i had my nitrate spike..i had to do a number of water changes during the weak to stabilize it.

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[Gill Blue]

If that's the case, then why did my other fish not die? I have one Altifron(the oldest that I've had for a couple months now) that is thriving. Beautiful, active, growing like a weed..My Jurupari is the same. Doing great.My Bichirs and RTBS are all thriving, too...so if it's bad water then why aren't the other fish sick?
I'm so frustrated, if I lose another fish I'm going to die. I'm just going to curl up and die.
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because fish are like the majority of other creatures on the planet, not identical.
why do some fish do fine in polluted water while the rest die off? why do only some of the people living downwind from certain factories develop cancer? why do some people get gassy from milk?
and just because the fish you have seem to be doing well, it doesn't mean they are. you don't test your water, so I doubt you check for chromosomal damage or cellular damage... we really have no way of knowing how things are really working in any of our tanks. even the water tests are just general parameters.
for example, daphnia have been raised for a long time by putting tree leaves in water. and they "thrived" after all, that's how they live in nature. but studies have shown that the leaves in the water is actually stressful to the daphnia- resulting in a higher heart rate, shortened lifespan, and fewer offspring.

like I said, geos are known for being sensitive to bad water conditions. sensitive fish die first.
it may not even have been bad water in the typical sense. you could have a bacteria living in your tank that the others are fine with, or were able to develop a defense against. if the geos couldn't cope with it, something like that could be the cause. that's why we don't release tanked fish into the wild even if they are natives.

and if you do curl up and die, at least let someone know first so you don't take the other animals with you.

 

[MonsterMinis]

I was planning on taking in a water sample to the store today, but my foster dog came to me matted & in seriousness of grooming, I spent hours fixing him up. Priorities... ): no time to go to the store. I'll do it tomorrow. I still don't think it's a water quality problem, I am good at keeping up with water changed. At least 50% each week.


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Sorry but if grooming a dog is more important then taking care of sick fish.. your priorities are skewed...

 

[Gill Blue]

Sorry but if grooming a dog is more important then taking care of sick fish.. your priorities are skewed...

no, they aren't. they're just different than your's. BC's talking about taking in an abused animal, not taking a pampered pooch to the weekly grooming. where the mats are so tight against the skin they're actually ripping the hair out or causing sores underneath. where the animal is in constant pain because of it's hair.
the timing could have been better, but if you're on a foster list, you can't always time it.
if it came down to my fish or my dogs in an emergency situation, the dogs would win.

 

[petspoiler]

and if you do curl up and die, at least let someone know first so you don't take the other animals with you.

Gill, your fish information is good.. but saying this to any person is wrong.
unfortunately this is not the first time I've seen this kind of thing said on forum, nor is it the worst example.

 

[ecoli73]

Very uncalled for responses here.

But back on topic still need to test waters and observe your fish carefully.


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[BCherdingthefish]

no, they aren't. they're just different than your's. BC's talking about taking in an abused animal, not taking a pampered pooch to the weekly grooming. where the mats are so tight against the skin they're actually ripping the hair out or causing sores underneath. where the animal is in constant pain because of it's hair.
the timing could have been better, but if you're on a foster list, you can't always time it.
if it came down to my fish or my dogs in an emergency situation, the dogs would win.

Thank you. I love my fish, but dogs are the priority. I am not going to let a dog sit there covered in dirt and mats while I take water to a store.

I'm taking a water sample into the store in just a little bit, so we'll see what they say.


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[Slickad85]

BC, do you have well water or city water?? If you have well water I would bring a sample to the LFS to be tested as well. Something may have gotten into the water to possibly contaminate it. Just a thought....