OK, from the last addition of the additional LR, the pseudo, and the extra chromi we started to have problems. First of all we noticed the purple pseudo chasing everyone!! We hoped this would stop if given a little time (we thought perhaps he was just adjusting). After a couple of days however we noticed the other chromis fins were torn and Ralphie (our pygmy cherub angel) was hanging out at the top and his fins were a little ragged as wel (he had a nice little hollow dug out under the larger piece of rock in the back, but the pseudo wouldn't let any of them anywhere near the rocks and stuff). Perhaps our tank is just not large enough to have a pseudochromi...dunno. But anyways, so we decided Ralphie the angel wasn't looking good, and we REALLY liked him, so we decided to take the pseudo back first thing Monday morning, problem was it was Saturday afternoon (the store was closed already)and we wanted to do something sooner than 2 days later. So here's what we did.
We got in contact with a different LFS (VERY nice guy!!). We were asking him what to do about a sick angel. We told him we were on our way to Petco (which we NEVER use for fish) to see about getting a small tank for a hospital to put Ralphie the angel in. He told us it was a good idea to seperate him, because being bullied would only worsen his condition if he was sick and further stress him out. Then he told us he would come back to work in order to open up and sell us some treatment (how nice is that????)!!! We met him up there at the store, and ended up getting some medicine for fin rot (his fins had a ripped appereance....we read this is usually caused from stress, bullies, or poor water conditions so we this was a very likely problem). We also ended up buying an 8G Nano tank to make into a hospital (gave us a good deal....a $150 tank for $75)!! It came with all the lighting and filtration we needed (tanks with filters and such cost that at Petco and aren't nearly as good...no good lighting..etc..)
We got home took out about 6G of water out of our 24G and added it to the 8G. We then topped it off with water from the store and refilled our 24G with more store water (like doing a water change to both). We tested the waters.....both the water in the nano and in our main had small traces of ammonia. NOT good for our little angel. We changed out a little more water in the Nano to bring the ammonia down and put in the angel with the treatment (still had a small amount of ammonia, but so did our main).
Sad to say, angel died later that night.....poor Ralphie! I loved that cute little guy!!!
Here are some pics to remember him by:
Here's looking at you kid!!!
