malevolentsparkle Posted June 22, 2010 Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 I woke up this morning to find my whiptail dead on the carpet. he must of climbed out the back where the cables exit the tank. what i don't know is why. I have heard that they will escape a tank if the water is not to their likeing ie. if you use copper-based medicines, but i had not. I will take a water sample into hollywood and see if anything is amiss. I may have to cover these holes to prevent it happening again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 22, 2010 Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 They do occasionally jump out. i once lost between 4 and 6 red whiptails in 48 hours - they all jumped out. The batch after that did not jump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malevolentsparkle Posted June 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 so you don't recon its a water quality issue then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 22, 2010 Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 It wasn't in my case. I was very confused too. All the other fish were happy as. However my temp was 30C, so i reduced it to 26 and then added more whiptails, then slowly increased the temp to 29 over the next week. I now still add whiptails to the tank, and the temp is now 29C and have no issues with them jumping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malevolentsparkle Posted June 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 well pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, and GH is all ok. temp at 34-35. so unless he objected to my plant supplement i can't think what else it could be. must just be a random thing. ill cover the gaps before i get another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Temp at 34-35?? That is pretty hot for most fish and the dissolved oxygen would have been much lower at that temperature. I'd say those were the reasons they were trying to escape. When you can only breathe in water, there must be a very strong motivation to make you climb out and risk death (jumping randomly is something else altogether). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishplants Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 well pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, and GH is all ok. temp at 34-35. so unless he objected to my plant supplement i can't think what else it could be. must just be a random thing. ill cover the gaps before i get another. That's pretty warm for whiptails, in fact pretty warm for a lot of fish! edit: oops - hadn't seen Jennifers post!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stella Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Was the fish recently added to the tank? They are more likely to try and escape then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malevolentsparkle Posted June 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2010 oh sorry typo, it 24/25 degrees! the fish had been in the tank for about a month a suppose. my cats have taken more of an interest lately so that could of contributed. have to train them better before i get a new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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