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Posted by Reel McKoi on October 22, 2007, 8:27 am
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> I'm currently quarantining some Clowns, Tetras and Yoyos for a couple of
> other tanks. I haven't been feeding them much, as they have some Ammonia
> issues, despite seeding the filter from another tank. So I go to feed them
> today and 5 of the Tetras are missing. I suspect it was the Clowns, as
> they were harassing the Tetras when I fed them.
The mouths of clown loaches are too small to suck in a tetra. If one dies
they'll nibble at it. They may really be starving though. Why not do a few
water changes to bring down the ammonia?
> I had planned to move the Tetras and the Clowns to a tank with more
> Tetras, but now I'm wondering. Did the Clowns eat the Tetras because they
> were hungry from the lack of feeding or are they just as likely to eat
> them anyway? I can always move the Tetras to a smaller tank with the
> Yoyos, they've always gotten along before.
>
> I suspect there will not be any Tetras to move in two more weeks anyway.
> :-|
All 12 of my neon's and all 5 black neon's have died. All 3 of the cherry
barbs also died. But I have a high PB and alkalinity problem so the stores
wont replace them and rightly so.
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> other tanks. I haven't been feeding them much, as they have some Ammonia
> issues, despite seeding the filter from another tank. So I go to feed them
> today and 5 of the Tetras are missing. I suspect it was the Clowns, as
> they were harassing the Tetras when I fed them.