tom28

hey so i have 5 no real problems but then i noticed that they were picking on one and that they had started to fin nip him. i put him in a QT tank and put some betta fix in to see it it would help regrow the fin.. he died.. now there is another one that is hanging out all by himself? any ideas of what could be happening? i was going to get some more once my platty fry are big enought to trade back to the store but that still may be another month or so.

any help would be appreciated
tom

Lucy

Any reason you chose to use betta fix on him?
Usually with nipped fins extra clean water and a little extra stress coat will help avoid infection.
I wonder if he didn't have something wrong that made him weaker, in which case the other fish would pick at him.
The little guy by himself, is he showing any other symptoms?

tom28

no he wasnt showing anything exept by himself all the time. now since he died i was just watching my fish this morning after feeding them and it only seams to be one that is the problem, hes fin nipping all the other tetras. is it trying to establish a dominance or is it because of the few neons i have in there. i just dont want that one to end up killing them all! i used betta fix because i hear that its good for healing fins faster and if there was any infection i thought that would take care of it too.

Lucy

Betta fix, from what I understand is a lessor version of melafix, I was asking out of curiosity.
Have you tried rearranging the decor? Sometimes that helps throw them off a bit.

agabr123

i'm sorry to hear that

i'm with lucy, it sounds like there may have been something wrong with him before this. do you have recent water parameters? if i were you, i'd probably remove the one bully for a couple days into a quarantine tank, rearrange the decorations, and then re-introduce him later so everyone else has some time to establish themselves.

tom28

thanks for the tips, unfortunatly i cant rearange the decor to much since most of it is live plants that have pretty well developed root systems. my water levels are fine so i think ill just move the bully out for a few days and see how that goes.

thanks again,

tom