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Posted by Koi-Lo on April 14, 2006, 1:12 pm
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>i have a one gallon setup. Nothing spectacular but it's all i'm allowed.
>So i got a one gallon aquarium. Set it up last saturday bought a fantail
>and plecostymous. I didn't wait the full 48 hours for the water to aerate.
>Although i did by water neutralyzer. after first few days though both fish
>seem to acclymate.
Did you do your ammonia tests? By day 7 the ammonia could be sky-high and
deadly. A pleco grows to 18" long and GF can reach almost a foot long. You
can't keep these fish in a 1g tank. The pet shop should have told you this.
> Today was day five plescostymous still healthy. Looking at the fantail
> before work there just wasn't much life to it. It was alive not on the
> side but just moving oh so slowly. Almost looked as though it had battle
> wounds from poky plastic plant in aquarium. My theory is the fish
> bludgeoned itself to death with poky plastic in aquarium
I doubt that's what did the damage to it. What is the ammonia reading?
> Well i got out of work tonight fantail was dead no life at all. wasn't
> even dying, it was dead.
Ammonia and PH were?
> Any advice on my next fish. Anyone have fish bludgeon themselves to
> death? Would that be a recurring problem?
That doesn't happen. The tank is way too small for a GF. The plec may have
done the damage as some of them go after other fishes slimecoats for the
protein. I think you need to Google both GF and Plecos.
> Any comments appreciated as i don't know whether to get a fish tommorrow.
Get rid of the pleco and get a betta or a few male guppies. Is this 1g tank
at least filtered and aerated? Do some reading before you purchase anything
else would be the best advice anyone can give you at this point.
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