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- From: sylvia@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Sylvia Budak)
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:45:22 GMT
- Subject: Re: [M] HELP! What happened to my Cowfish...
- Message-ID: <2800270@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
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- I just got myself a little cowfish two weeks ago. He is about the size of a
- lima bean and unfortunately got stuck in the skimmer slits twice. Because of
- this I had to put a net over the slits to keep him from getting stuck. Could
- it be that your cowfish might have gotten stuck somewhere and couldn't dislodge
- herself (I noticed you used she)? I have also heard these fish can when
- scared excrete poisons into the tank which kill other fish as well as them-
- selves. This doesn't fit your tank however because your other fish are fine.
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- I have also heard cowfish are sensitive to water conditions. Earlier this
- week I had an emergency happening in my tank. I believe it was caused by the
- nylon net I used to keep the little cowfish from getting stuck in the skimmer.
- I bought the net from a fabric store, and now believe it must have had some
- coating on it that stupid me didn't think to rinse off! My blue tangs and
- percula clown were showing signs of distress while my cowfish went along like
- nothing was wrong. For this reason I question the cowfish's sensitivity to
- water conditions compared to a percula! On the other hand I think my percula
- may have been having simpathetic symptoms. He seems to copy anything the Tangs
- do. By the way, I replaced my "nylon net" with a plastic screen made for
- humidifiers. I also did an emergency large water change and now things are
- getting back to normal. My tangs are creeping back towards being total
- porkers. Wheh, I tell you though, that was a close one. I was sure I was
- going to lose at least one of the tangs.
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- Is your specific gravity really 1.2? I think this must have been a typo. If
- it is 1.020 then maybe it is a bit low.
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- Sorry to hear about your loss, cowfish are pretty cute.
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- Sylvia
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