Adrienne Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 Went out to my shed this morning to find 5 out of the 6 new males I purchased 11 - 16 days ago dead in their containers. The other male not looking too flash and 3 of the 4 females swimming in the same tank dead. Ammonia spike overnight? Don't know. Everything tests clear and I water changed yesterday afternoon. Noticed last evening two of the males looked a bit quiet. I haven't kept up my usual regime of water changes in the last two weeks but I haven't been totally slack. The worst thing about this is that these were the replacement males to the ones I lost in the break in to my shed. I was going to grow them up to use as breeders. Guess I will now be waiting for my young to grow up instead. Anyway I am now down to 8 tanks of fish instead of the usual 16. The positive side is that it won't take as long to feed them now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrudd Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 awww that is so sad, sorry to hear that Adrienne :tears: do you think maybe someone could have spiked your tank with something, especially since you were a target allready with the theft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted July 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 No I don't. Its probably very much my own fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrudd Posted July 17, 2011 Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 No I don't. Its probably very much my own fault. I watch to much ci channel, so mind usually goes into csi mode :facepalm: Its still sad though, but would an amonia spike not left traces of amonia in your water? How could it still test right ? Sometimes I don't understand deaths of fish. I had one otto die after the other, only have one left now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted July 17, 2011 Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 I'm sorry to hear that Adrienne. If I see any nice fighters come in I'll point you in the right direction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted July 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 Thanks Josh but I am going to pass on purchasing any more fighters this year. Nice of you to offer though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted July 17, 2011 Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 Gutting! Sometimes fighters just die and there's no obvious reason why, happened to me a couple of times. Best not to get too down about it though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted July 17, 2011 Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 Any possibility there was something in the water when you did the water change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livebearer_breeder Posted July 17, 2011 Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 nooooooooooooooooooooooo! its sucks so bad when you finally get the fish that are just a little more special to you than the others and they flag out like that. My big pair of wild variation kribs have been missing the last few days in my 6 foot, i hope they are just rasing fry and not dead I've only managed to get 5 babies to adults so far even though they breed every 2-3 weeks or so, i don't know what im doing wrong either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARY ANN Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 I reading other one you say you had your fish theft. i write on the wrong story. Went out to my shed this morning to find 5 out of the 6 new males I purchased 11 - 16 days ago dead in their containers. The other male not looking too flash and 3 of the 4 females swimming in the same tank dead. Ammonia spike overnight? Don't know. Everything tests clear and I water changed yesterday afternoon. Noticed last evening two of the males looked a bit quiet. I haven't kept up my usual regime of water changes in the last two weeks but I haven't been totally slack. The worst thing about this is that these were the replacement males to the ones I lost in the break in to my shed. I was going to grow them up to use as breeders. Guess I will now be waiting for my young to grow up instead. Anyway I am now down to 8 tanks of fish instead of the usual 16. The positive side is that it won't take as long to feed them now. poor lady. they got the people like that in the fish.they the home invading thief, rapist, child molester type people in the fish people. the new zealand law is that home invader thief are now in that class of people. and that is the class of court penalty they get. in my country whole street or community find them and hang them up at the end of that street as example. they dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARY ANN Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 and if the street or that community dose not kill them then the police will shoot them because 1 bullet is cheaper them feed and keeping the home invading thief, rapist, child molester crud in prison. but then the bullet might be better because our prison is hell on earth they say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheepsnana Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 ...and everyone is sitting there, going "riiiiiight...." Sorry about your fish Adrienne. If I knew how to keep fighters alive, I would offer advice, but they seem to have a way of just giving up. Maybe it's the stock we have, who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 Please note this thread was revived from July 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheepsnana Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 LOL. Goes to show how many of us check the dates.... :oops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARY ANN Posted June 2, 2012 Report Share Posted June 2, 2012 and if the street or that community dose not kill them then the police will shoot them because 1 bullet is cheaper them feed and keeping the home invading thief, rapist, child molester crud in prison. but then the bullet might be better because our prison is hell on earth they say. yes true and some times they catch them and hang them up outside our shopping mall as example. we can look at them when we eat the McDs or the kfc and the JOLIBEE. McDs no1 in the world but not in the Philippines. JOLIBEE NUMBER 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dachende Posted June 2, 2012 Report Share Posted June 2, 2012 ^^ You just quoted yourself, agreed with yourself and continued discussion , with yourself. Highly entertaining ! :sml1: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARY ANN Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 YES. but you must buy a big feed if you want to look for long time. :thup: and is very good as after the big day all the kiddies go straight to their rooms and study hard and prey before they go to sleep at night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livebearer_breeder Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 haha Mary Ann is awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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