I'll try to keep this long story short, just skip to paragraph 2 to skip the background. I have a 250 with an Oscar, yellow lab, firemouth, and two common pleccos. For three days around Valentine's day our power was out and the Oscar was pretty much gone, water down to 50, might have just put him to sleep, I don't know, but he was floating upside down completely listless. The water heaters came back on and he made a complete recovery within 5 hours. Sometime the next week I was talking to my friend about how nice it would be to have native fish which wouldn't need a heater. So about 2 months ago my friend decides to surprise me while I'm out of town and put 7 bream that he caught in the tank. There were two warmouth, I think a green sunfish and 4 who knows what in there from Monday until I got home Friday night. I cussed him out but made the mistake of saying you could have at least got me a redear. A month later amazingly only the larger warmouth had died, he never took pellets and the green started bullying him. Anyway it's Tuesday about a month ago when my friend strikes again, a redear and another I couldn't ID which had fungus all over him. My wife calls me Wednesday, two dead fish. Had her treat with polyguard. Thursday, three dead. Friday, two more. She said the dead all had fungus on them, but the original fish with fungus was still alive. So when I get home all of the original fish (o, lab, firemouth...) have no symptoms at all, one bream no symptoms, one looking like it swam backwards through a cotton field. I quarantine him and continue treating for three weeks, finally better but still quarantined. So here's where it gets weird...
I'm cleaning the sump on the 250 last week and see a tiny (1/2" max) fish in the third chamber. I thought it was a male mosquito fish I had given to the Oscar earlier in the summer and brushed it off. This morning I'm changing water and see him again, this time bigger and definitely not a mosquito fish. I put him in my 55 with some platties and mosquito fish, curious to see what he turns out to be.
He's really shy so it's hard to get a good pic, will try again tonight.
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I'm cleaning the sump on the 250 last week and see a tiny (1/2" max) fish in the third chamber. I thought it was a male mosquito fish I had given to the Oscar earlier in the summer and brushed it off. This morning I'm changing water and see him again, this time bigger and definitely not a mosquito fish. I put him in my 55 with some platties and mosquito fish, curious to see what he turns out to be.
He's really shy so it's hard to get a good pic, will try again tonight.
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