Re: Help - Fish are dying ...

Dick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I notice you had your tank for 3 months before the fish died, thus
> your water and method of changing water seemed to have been ok until
> now. 
> 
> I have three 10 gallon tanks, one is my Qtank.  I change 20% each
> week, no chemicals added.  My Ph runs 7.5.  Mainly my tanks run
> nicely.  I receive my fish by mail and have had problems with new
> fish, but nothing that was passed to my established tanks.  I am
> talking of a period of 10 months.  I just started experimenting with a
> 10 gallon Qtank 2 weeks ago.
> 
> Mollies usually have ich problems.  I didn't see any responses that
> talked about what diseases would act so quickly with no symptoms.
> You didn't mention if you have a "planted" tank and if so the
> condition of the plants.  
> 
> Since your tank is a 10 gallon, I would treat it as your Qtank.  I am
> discovering a Qtank to be a problem on its own.  Cycling and
> associated cloudiness may be related to the process.  (Even though I
> took the water from my 75 gallon tank it happened to me.) 
> 
> The isolation alone is hard for many fish.  One of my platy's
> developed a cyst behind her eye and a new molly had what appeared as a
> damaged scale on her back.  I put them both in the Qtank and they have
> stayed close to one another, both are female.  The molly was pregnant
> and there are now over 30 fry in the tank.
> 
> The adventures of having tropical fish!
> == snip ===

No, it's not a planted tank. I would like to try a plant in the
future. Before one of my cory died, it developed a red ring around
it's right eye. Then the second one developed the red ring also. First
cory died and second one is still fine. Adventures is right :-)

Raj