Brad J Reinert Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 So I have a fully cycled 20 gallon tank setup for almost 2 years, but recently every time I buy fish I loss a majority of them within a week. Example: I bought 6 panda Corys and 4 otos, 3 days after purchasing them 1 oto and two pandas died now 10 days after 2 more pandas died. Should I be doing a salt quarantine to avoid these losses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levi_Aquatics Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Have you checked your water parameters before adding the fish? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quikv6 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 My guess would be your water parameters are significantly different than the store. What are your parameters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad J Reinert Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 I tested right now ph - 6.8 hardness -300 (on city water) nitrate - 20 ppm nitrite-0 kh 40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwayne Brown Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 You could contact the store and find out what their parameters are. If all that checks out it could be that the fish you purchased were potentially diseases. Did they show any symptoms of illness? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad J Reinert Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 Here is pict of tank With the otos I asked for the biggest and fattest ones and all the corys seemed fine In the store Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXInkedPhoenixX Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Water parameter differences between you and the LFS can be an issue as others have mentioned also.... One thing to think of, Otos are mostly wild caught fish. Losses are not uncommon. For example, I put 7 in with my 10 Harlequins in a 20 gallon, 6 of them died (Don't worry later I got 7 more and they all made it- and they are worth it). Then the tank got Ich. It was a domino effect. There is potential they brought something in with them. The corys could just as well. Last time I got Otos (this time Tigers) I asked the LFS for some bags of THEIR water. I put them in a small Qt with the LFS's water with a sponge from one of my tanks. Over the course of their QT I changed small amounts of the LFS water out with my own. I had zero losses. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quikv6 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 If the fish came from soft-water stores/sources, your water's high GH could potentially put them into some sort of osmotic shock, without the proper acclimation process. Do you know the parameters from the place you got the fish from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad J Reinert Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 I’ll have to contact the store about parameters and see how different they are. thanks “inked” I’ll have to try that quarantine method next time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndEEss Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Don’t use salt with scaleless fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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