RIP Bittypuff (June 04 - Feb 08)
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:48 pm
One of my 2 F8s died last night after being sick for a week.
At the beginng of February I had to trim his teeth because he was having trouble eating and was getting skinny. Afterwards, he was eating very well and got back his normal shape and was generally looking much healthier. Last weekend he started refusing food, but I figured maybe I was just feeding him too often (1/8 of a mussel cube every evening) and didn't feed him for a couple of days. Then he became listless so for the last 3 days I did 50% water changes every day (normally every weekend) in case it was the water quality. He was in a 10g by himself. The day before yesterday, I noticed the tip of his fins were slightly white and ragged, so I tried Pimafix and Melafix, but it didn't work. His fins were very white and ragged when I found him this morning. Unfortunately, I don't know what his water parameters were because the test kit was old and it got thrown away at the beginning of the year and I hadn't gotten a new one.
Does anyone know what this might have been? It advanced really fast from the time I noticed the white on his fins at first. It's like he was becoming paralyzed.
Also, do you think it's safe to bury him in a pot of edible herbs? That's all I have right now, before I get some purely decorative plants.
At the beginng of February I had to trim his teeth because he was having trouble eating and was getting skinny. Afterwards, he was eating very well and got back his normal shape and was generally looking much healthier. Last weekend he started refusing food, but I figured maybe I was just feeding him too often (1/8 of a mussel cube every evening) and didn't feed him for a couple of days. Then he became listless so for the last 3 days I did 50% water changes every day (normally every weekend) in case it was the water quality. He was in a 10g by himself. The day before yesterday, I noticed the tip of his fins were slightly white and ragged, so I tried Pimafix and Melafix, but it didn't work. His fins were very white and ragged when I found him this morning. Unfortunately, I don't know what his water parameters were because the test kit was old and it got thrown away at the beginning of the year and I hadn't gotten a new one.
Does anyone know what this might have been? It advanced really fast from the time I noticed the white on his fins at first. It's like he was becoming paralyzed.
Also, do you think it's safe to bury him in a pot of edible herbs? That's all I have right now, before I get some purely decorative plants.
