HELP! is my tropical tank diseased or something?
October 4, 2008 by admin
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heARTist asked:
I have (or i should say i HAD) 5 danios and 3 platies in my tropical tank. I feed them everyday, but you know, i dont like COUNT my fish to make sure they’re all still there.. but today i noticed that one of my platies (the red and black one.. VERY DISTINCT to me, as i only had ONE red and black fish) was missing. I figured he was sleeping in the rocks or behind my little ceramic statue thing, but when i started vaccuuming out my tank, i found his dead little body just sitting on the bottom. The weird part was.. he was completely WHITE. Like there was no color in him at ALL. and he had no eyes. I’m assuming the other fish pecked out his eyes after he died, but with the color thing kind of has me freaking out. It’s not like Ick where it’s a white COATING.. it’s like all his color just drained out. Is this just because maybe he was dead for a few days in my tank and he kind of rotted? Or does it sound like a disease?
none of the other fish seem to be ill.. no signs of flopsy or popeye or ick or anything… Rufio (the dead fish in question) is the only one that has died or is sick.
well i was thinking it was probably logical that the missing fish eyes thing was because of the fish pecking at the dead one AFTER it died. And if it was TB or ANY bacterial disease, wouldnt ALL the fish have it? And this might sound horribly stupid, but is it the same TB that people get? IF it is TB, could someone who touched the fish water get it?
also, there were no ulcers on the fish OR on any of the live ones. And the filter is AMAZING on my fish tank.. and i keep it realllly clean and make sure all the ammonia/ph/nitrate/nitrite levels are good.
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I have (or i should say i HAD) 5 danios and 3 platies in my tropical tank. I feed them everyday, but you know, i dont like COUNT my fish to make sure they’re all still there.. but today i noticed that one of my platies (the red and black one.. VERY DISTINCT to me, as i only had ONE red and black fish) was missing. I figured he was sleeping in the rocks or behind my little ceramic statue thing, but when i started vaccuuming out my tank, i found his dead little body just sitting on the bottom. The weird part was.. he was completely WHITE. Like there was no color in him at ALL. and he had no eyes. I’m assuming the other fish pecked out his eyes after he died, but with the color thing kind of has me freaking out. It’s not like Ick where it’s a white COATING.. it’s like all his color just drained out. Is this just because maybe he was dead for a few days in my tank and he kind of rotted? Or does it sound like a disease?
none of the other fish seem to be ill.. no signs of flopsy or popeye or ick or anything… Rufio (the dead fish in question) is the only one that has died or is sick.
well i was thinking it was probably logical that the missing fish eyes thing was because of the fish pecking at the dead one AFTER it died. And if it was TB or ANY bacterial disease, wouldnt ALL the fish have it? And this might sound horribly stupid, but is it the same TB that people get? IF it is TB, could someone who touched the fish water get it?
also, there were no ulcers on the fish OR on any of the live ones. And the filter is AMAZING on my fish tank.. and i keep it realllly clean and make sure all the ammonia/ph/nitrate/nitrite levels are good.
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