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Apr 16, 2012 20:53

Fish have stopped dying. Miserable weekend. Lost close on 30 fish in short order. :( Wiped out my cherry barbs and neons, and a fair few of the platys too. Luckily I got some medication in time to save a few of them. The only ones seemingly unaffected with the Ottos, which are supposed to be the more sensitive fish. Go figure ( Read more... )

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ghost07 April 16 2012, 21:02:23 UTC
Do you have any idea what killed the fish?

and HOW do you give a fish medication? I just can't picture shoving a pill down a fishy throat. I hope you can replace them, especially the neons they're so pretty...cherry barbs sound like they'd be pretty too; come to think of it, didn't you post pictures of the platys and the others? I can't think what the Ottos look like.

It's in the eighties here; I spent most of the day outside.

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huntingdon April 16 2012, 21:38:16 UTC
It was something called whitespot. It's normally not too much of a problem, but it absolutely infested them almost overnight. I cam ehome one day and found about 5 of them floating on top. The rest went shortly afterwards.

You generally medicate the whole tank and effectively give them a bath in the solution. It turns the whole tank bright blue for an hour or so

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santaman April 16 2012, 21:55:08 UTC
White spot can be very nasty indeed..

As for keyboard smasher person, a few drops of super glue on the keyboard will fix it, he'll become very attached to it...

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il_mio_capitano April 17 2012, 15:41:26 UTC
How awful about the fish. Did one of the new ones bring it in do you think?

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huntingdon April 17 2012, 19:19:37 UTC
Must have done. No problems before hand.

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