I got my RG a couple of days ago and it was swimming fine (it pretty much went into hiding, but it would come out when I wasnt there). Now I noticed that his body is stuck on the intake of my powerhead (my powerhead is covered by a media bag (to reduce flow)). I fished him out and here are the pictures.
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The white dots on the fish are not ich, it's dried up epoxy putty (that's on my cardboard) that got stuck to the fish.
I have a Firefish, 2 nasarius 2 trochus snail, and a clove polyp that I got yesterday.
The firefish still hides, but comes out every now and then and eats well. The snails are doing great and the clove polyp is opening up as well, all parameters are normal.
What caused its death? I noticed that the tail is gone and its gills on the first/second pic are wide open. I don't think the firefish can do that much of a damage and the firefish is pretty skiddish as well and they were hanging out before the RG's death. I don't think the snails can get to him either because he was on the media bag that's covering my powerhead. How did this happen? Any guesses?
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The white dots on the fish are not ich, it's dried up epoxy putty (that's on my cardboard) that got stuck to the fish.
I have a Firefish, 2 nasarius 2 trochus snail, and a clove polyp that I got yesterday.
The firefish still hides, but comes out every now and then and eats well. The snails are doing great and the clove polyp is opening up as well, all parameters are normal.
What caused its death? I noticed that the tail is gone and its gills on the first/second pic are wide open. I don't think the firefish can do that much of a damage and the firefish is pretty skiddish as well and they were hanging out before the RG's death. I don't think the snails can get to him either because he was on the media bag that's covering my powerhead. How did this happen? Any guesses?