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- From: steve@coho.austin.ibm.com (sTeVeN CaLlAhAn)
- Subject: [M] HELP! What happened to my Cowfish...
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:26:16 GMT
- Organization: IBM Austin
- Keywords: Cowfish, dead, no reason
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-
- Alas,
-
- Last night my Cowfish died. I MUST find out what happened. This
- cowfish was like one of the family...
-
- Maybe you can help. Quick background:
-
- I've had my cowfish for over a year. It has always come to my hand and
- eaten. Just like a cow, the fish ate as much as it could get. The fish
- has always seemed healthy.
-
- Well last night I happened to glance at the tank and noticed immediately
- that something was wrong with it. The Cow fish was leaning about 30
- degrees and swimming with its horns out of the water acting obviously
- distressed. It was also acting like it had to try real hard to maintain
- its swimming. I tried to feed it but it did not eat (first time EVER),
- instead it kept swimming around in a delusioned/confused state. The Cowfish
- had no visible marks on her other than a very small 1-2 mm brown mark
- on her nose. This did not seem like any big deal and was definitely not
- a cut. All of her fins were at 100% (ie, nothing had attacked her).
- About one hour later I looked at the tank and the cow was motionless
- on the bottom. A sad sight indeed (scared the daylights out of me!).
- This was something that happened very sudden because the day before the
- cowfish was a-ok acting...
-
- I immediately tested the water quality:
- PH - 8.3
- Ammonia - 0.0
- Nitrites - 0.0
- Nitrates - 4ppm
- O2 levels were very high also
- Salinity - 1.20
- Temperature - 81 F
- Protein Skimmer & W/D filter were operating normally.
-
- It had been about a week since my last water change. The only other
- inhabitants were:
-
- Niger Trigger - Lived with the cow for about 6 months. Never attacked
- the cowfish and is still swimming around as though there was nothing wrong.
-
- Saddle Back Clown - Lived with the cow for about 4 months. Never had
- any problems and is still swimming around as though there was nothing
- wrong.
-
- Moray Eel - about 9 inches long, lived with the cow about 1.5 months. This
- fish has never attacked any other fish and has never caused any problems.
- There is also nothing wrong with it.
-
- The only other thing that was different is that I added about 7 pounds of
- live rock to the tank one month ago.
-
-
- What would cause my cowfish only to die like that? Why did it have to be
- my cow, why couldn't they have taken the trigger??? WHY WHY WHY!
- Any clues are very much appreciated.
-
- steve
-
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- ___________________________________________________________________________
- Steven Callahan
- callahan@austin.ibm.com I'd rather
- (512) 838-8418 be raving...
-