I lost 3 L14... and now it comes to L25 : Help !

[2wheelsx2]

Man, that's sad. I lost a

Baryancistrus Demantoides

while I was away on business last week and I was pretty depressed. I can't imagine how hard it is to lose so many prized fish. Hope things look up for you and your fish soon.

[Farid]

christophe,
best is to add another catfish to this tank (any species) wait until the symptoms occur and then act fast to bring the ALIVE fish to
NAFUS in Bern
http://www.dlvb.unibe.ch/index.php?opti ... =2&lang=DE
this is the only way to check what the fishes have...the animal needs to be alive !!
farid

[MatsP]

Surely someone local has a largish Ancistrus or common pleco that can be sacrificed for the good of the many!

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Mats

[Farid]

...me for example

farid

[ElTofi]

christophe,
best is to add another catfish to this tank (any species) wait until the symptoms occur and then act fast to bring the ALIVE fish to
NAFUS in Bern
http://www.dlvb.unibe.ch/index.php?opti ... =2&lang=DE
this is the only way to check what the fishes have...the animal needs to be alive !!
farid

I will act like this with a "test fish" within the next few days. But actually, I still have Brochis, Botias, Ancistrus sp Paraguay and Otocinclus in the same tank... and they don't seem affected at all...

I will try the test fish in a while, with a middle sized Gibby or something so. I can always find a few of them in my FLS... and it won't cost me an arm.

I'll keep in touch.

[Smootnys]

Hi Chris.
I do apologize for digging this out, but did you find out what was the cause of you loosing your spectacular fish ?
I dug this after reading your great L25 breeding tale. So sorry about the ending...
I hope you found and solved the cause of this loss

Raf

[ElTofi]

no problem... This tank doesn't exist any more and has been replaced by a 10000 liters with Potamotrygon, Cichla, Arowanas and big Panaques...

never found out the exact biological cause of this disaster... what I know for sure is that the L14 were healthy individuals with a germ, a virus or a bacteria invisible to sight... and when they all began to look for troubles for territory, I began to have losses...

what was really strange is that ONLY big Loricaridae were concerned... not a single problem with Myleus, nor Retroculus... Still don't know what happened...

I had a 1.5 year of fishhobbying sadness/madness and then, I recovered with this wonderful actual tank (from 2011), which is a blast and make my day every morning before going to job !