katrina.hughes Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 Sad news, my beautiful dragon male (profile pic) died... some bacterial infection ravaged my tank - took out a few of my females too :tears: can the new tap water play a part in bacterial infections? everything was normal and then one day I noticed my male was a little quieter than usual and the next day he was dead! Just a couple of days after that my 2 girls got dropsy, and then also lost a lot from my spawn (were in a separate by the way). Devastating! Here a couple from my spawn... got quite a few females from him but the ones that survived are showing the dragon scales :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfishybuisness Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 Dam sorry to hear about your loss,hope you get some nice male dragons from his spawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katrina.hughes Posted February 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 cheers, time will tell if I get any males... but hey, at least I got something out of him before he died! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 It happens Good work with the fry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilobite Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 :tears: Thats a shame about your male. Those two youngsters are looking great though especially the top one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikBok Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 that's very sad. what are dragon scales? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 That sucks! what are dragon scales? Very thick, bright and shiny scales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 dragon scaling - looks like there is more than one layer of scales, often patchy so there is a bright shiny layer of scales over another less shiny layer and so on. Sorry to hear of your loss . How many do you have from the spawn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katrina.hughes Posted February 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 thanks for all your kind word only a measly 7 made it... and 5 of them appear to be girls - unsure of the other two though, they are a wee bit smaller. A lot of them got this strange disease where all of the sick ones had really clamped fins, turned pale, started darting around before they died and when they did die I noticed that their skull/brain appeared swollen and raised... tried my best to cure it but it just wouldn't go away. Water changes, epsom salt, antibacterial meds - the lot! Nothing I tried seemed to work... don't even know what disease they really had - nothing on the net could help me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie Posted March 10, 2011 Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 Your babies look awesome! Sorry to hear about your loss. It's always horrible losing them. We lost half a dozen recently when we shifted. We're down to like 5 females, mostly too old to breed. I was so attached to all of them. Best of luck with the new generation though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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