I thought i was a good pet parent but beginning to question myself.
A week ago we bought 6 beautiful neon tetras from a dodgy tank (with dead fish--i know)
3 died on Monday but the others seemed fine. The water showed v low readings of am. and nitrite, only nitrate was a tiny bit high. To make sure the remaining three weren't lonely my housemate went to buy 6 more (and two male guppies) today, but he came back with 6 cardinal tetras and three of them have only one eye. Worst, while he was gone, two of the other tetras died and the third has white spots on head and tail. (NTD? Ick?)
argh. So a) do i have to euthanise the last NT? b) are the one eyed cardinal tetras actually ok? Is it a disease or a GM problem? c) when is it safe to release them in the tank? I heard that all fish can catch NTD.
BTW the male guppies are already fighting for space in the bag and the shop is closed and we don't have a quarantine tank.
(when i was a kid keeping fish really seemed easy)
2007-12-21
06:08:27
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