Wright
Larry Stein wrote:
>
> I know I have not been around lately but this does not mean I have left the
> hobby.. In fact I have been very proud of my Rainbow collection. I have a
> really nice 265 gallon multi-species community tank.
>
> This brings me to my reason for writing...
>
> The other day I had a mature Rainbow die it was at least 4 years old with
> not outside lesions noticable paracites etc... then in the span of 3 days 7
> more mature rainbows died for no outward noticable reason. In fact one
> died with me watching it went to the surface took what looked like a gulp
> of air and died and floated to the bottom. I was able to have a friend
> help me with a post-mortem and we noticed nothing strange, gills red and
> normal sized, liver normal color and size, it had recently eaten and under
> the microscope we saw nothing.
>
> Please keep in mind this is a very diverse tank I have at 150 fish in it
> and it is very heavily planted. ONLY the Bows died!!!
>
> Some external things that were done prior to the deaths... The day before
> the fish strated to die I replaced all the water tubing from the filters
> and cleaned the filters throughly. The stupid thing I did on the same day
> was add 6 new Corys to the tank from, a store I buy from all the time, I
> did add the water the fish came home from the store with... The food I use
> is the same food I have used for years... So why did ONLY the Bows die?
>
> Sorry for the long post but....
>
> Happy Holidays
>
> -Larry
> ------------------------
> Larry Stein
> 301-924-0824
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