Re: [RML] Diseased Rainbows
Mike Adams Jr. (mfadam1 at service1.uky.edu)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:26:25 -0500
At 02:59 PM 1/21/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I had a similar situation with my praecox. I had a 30 gallon tank with 12 M.
>praecox. They had been in the tank for several months and were doing fine -
>even creating (and eating) little praecox. In the space of 24 hours I lost 10
>of them - first they were gasping at the surface, then frantically and
>erractically swimming around the tank with limited motor controls. Only the
>largest three survived. A thirty percent water change had been done the
>previous week and I tried an emergency 50% water change to no avail. The only
>item that stands out in my mind is that I had noticed some snails in the tank
>and had used some "snail_rid" in the tank that morning. I have used snail-rid
>on other tanks before but never in the rainbow tanks. I know that acriflavine
>causes problems with rainbow fry - has anybody had any problems with rainbows
>and snail-rid or other copper solutions?
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I, too, had this occur with praecox recently. I had a group of 10, some I
bought and some I raised, start behaving the same way and then dying. The
water was fine. They took some dicrossis with them. All seems fine now,
though.
Mike
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Mike Adams Jr.
University of Kentucky
Graduate Studies in Environmental Engineering
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