is it just mother nature?

hello guys

I was just wondering

if you have consistent good water parameters, feed your fish a good varied diet, make there habitat as natural as can be, introduce noting new to the tank, why do your fish get sick?

is this just mother nature?

 

I have wondered that too.

 

Have you tested your ph recently? I thought my water parameters were fine when my fish were dying but all I was testing were ammonia and nitrites (which both were 0). When I finally did a pH test, I discovered that my pH had changed drastically.

In answer to your question, while I think it is possible for fish to die in great circumstances for no apparent reason due to for example the fish having experienced ammonia poisoning before they came to you which did not kill them right away but shortened their lifespan, or perhaps too much inbreeding in the species causing bad genes with shortened lifespans, and I am sure there are other reasons. However, I think that unless one is really experienced, one should assume that something may be wrong that one has not figured out yet due to one's lack of experience. Aquariums are complex ecosystems and it is easy for an inexperienced aquarist to for example forget to check the temperature or some such factor - there are probably factors that could kill fish that I am not aware of, since I am still not experienced enough.

 

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Some interesting links above.

Ken

 

hI joanna

as a rule I don't test my ph just the usual 3 every week before my weekly w/c
the last time I checked it it was 7.4
will go and test it now to see if there has been any change

 

thanks for the links ken

there is a lot of different factors to consider ( good articles )

but for the most part my fish seem happy, bit of chasing between the congos but nothing to be worried about

the groups of fish don't tend to shoal, a sign they are comfortable, from what ive read

no sudden swing in temp

understocked, plenty of filtration

my ph is 7.5 so no real change since the last test

 

If you have a history of losing fish in your tanks for no apparent reason, then there is most likely a cause you have not discovered. If you lose fish intermittently over months or years, that's mother nature. If it's happening after you've had the fish a while, you might want to research the age expectation for that species.

 

ive never lost a fish, and only really had problems with 1 of them and that's only in the last couple of months but that was my fault as I switched to sand and got a build up of gas and the other was columnaris which I caught in time

was just wondering why it is when we do everything we can and everything seems to be ok, out of the blue something goes wrong

how could I forget, I have lost a fish, max my stunning ghost koi, called him max as he was mad
he developed what I think were tumours as his body ended up looking all lumpy, miss you max

but I guess that's mother nature

 

I agree, sometimes we lose fish for no reason, I think it just happens from time to time.