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I was gutted to find one of my L046 Zebra Plecos dead this afternoon during a routine water change
Tested the water and all is spot on so don't know what happened. I had worried it had got trapped somehow but belly wasn't sunken at all so am puzzled as to what has happened
Don't appear to be any marks on it but it had been dead a couple of days as most of the fins were gone and hardly any colour left on it
Hi joby sorry to your zeb has died.
Sounds like it could be of natural causes and will not affect other fish.Thats one thing I am not looking forward to find in my tank not if but when it happens.I think its one thing we all will suffer from one day.
I wish you the best of luck with your other zebs
Jerry
Caution is a most valuable asset in fish keeping, especially if you are the fish.
Thanks Jerry, yes was sick to my stomach to find it
Going to be paranoid around the remaining 5 now, but can't see any reason for it to happen so will just have to watch and hope the rest continue to do well
Bare bottomed with slate/clay caves and stacked slate running for 18 months with Tetratec EX600 external filter plus a Fluval 2+ internal filter and an internal UV
Think you mean Nitrite not Nitrate this is ok at 10 my zebs have bred in more and I have checked my water in breeding tank while breeding and tonight with Interpet easy test kit its under 6 months old (3 part liquid 1 part powder)and reads 12.5.
If your test kit shows 0 Nitrate then you probably need a new one.
Hope this helps Jerry
Caution is a most valuable asset in fish keeping, especially if you are the fish.
I've been peering into the tank often since it happened and seen them all now and nobody appears to be injured, all fins ok and stripes look nice and clear plus 2 came out to feed right in front of me so don't think its anything wrong with the water
There were always 3 that occupied the caves and only 2 are now so not sure if that means it was a male that died as another bigger male didn't want the competition
Thanks again everyone am getting over the shock of it now and I guess will never really know what happened but hopefully was not my fault
I started with a proven breeding colony of 13 fish in Apr 06. So far I have lost 4 fish since then. I know my water is kept clean and conditions for the fish are good. I chalk up the losses to natural causes and/or fighting. The other side of that coin is a few 100 fry have also come out of that tank alive and healthy in that period.
What makes the common person uncommon is common sense.
