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krellious

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Hey guys.

I recently lost 13 or so adult peps aswell as 2 L002 and 2 L33 (l333 from recent auction)

I measured the ammonia and it was not at zero (.25 at most) so did a decent water change and the next day lost more fish out of the total dead and i lost the lot within 4 days. This has happened to me in the past the fish look like the skin is peeling off and the noses look like they have been beaten up and open wounded. I then moved the remaining 7 or so to a tank with fry.

Now all the fry are dead. Does ammonia sound like it could be the cause or could it be a side effect of not quarantiining the L333?

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Does to sound like the reason is ammonia mate.

But don't rule out secondary disease caused by ammonia like gram negative bacteria and so on.

If your fry is very small,,, the sudden load of big cats could have overloaded the bio circle there to.

Peps and cats alike don't fair well from ammo spikes.

But seachem prime is going to take the edge of.

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fry where about 4cm and older then 4cm fry should be. Sucks cause last time i lost a tank of peps they all showed the same peeling skin and happened within a week or 2 of adding new fish. So ammonia poisioning can transfer from fish to a new tank? there was about 15 perspicax in a 4ft tank so the sponge filtratino should not have been overloaded

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Perspicax are pretty tough little buggers to.

The only thing a can think of, if there was open wounds caused by ammo, then it may have triggered a bad bacteria bloom.

Young fish are usually ok with bad bacterias but not new fry.

I had a heap of full size peps ages ago crammed in a 2x1. Breeding well to.

Well before I had my monster auto generator,,,,, a bush fire narrowly missed us and power went out for 8 hours.

Ammo spike and same thing,,, skin peeling and white looking sections with lesions starting a day or two after. Ammonia. They all died.

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There may have been some damage i cant be to sure. But you pretty much answered my question about the infection transfering so cheers. next thing How would i steralize my filters and tanks so make sure the next inhabitants done suffer the same fait

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That type of stuff isn't really all that contagious.

It only relatively spreads while infected fish are present or decaying matter is present still from time of infection.

Just a big water change and filter clean is fine.

No infected fish or decaying matter.

There's many types of bad bacterias and most of them exist in almost every aquarium,, even clean sanitary ones.

The bad bacterias take over when a issue unfolds, but not all the time.

Fish tuberculosis is one specie of many that behave like this.

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You need to watch for nitrites too. Nitrites are a silent killer that not enough people test for, probably because you need a second kit which many people cant be bothered with.

Nitrites kill as many fish as ammonia does imo.

The by-product of ammonia oxidation is nitrite, which is also highly toxic to fish. Nitrites levels as low as low as 1 mg/l can be lethal to some fish The fact you have an ammonia reading says that your tank is going through a cycling stage or adjustment.

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