Sudden death

[Fyrehawk]

So today I came home and found one of three denisonii barbs in my 70 gallon dead. First loss in this tank and it has been stocked for about five weeks. All seven other occupants are fine and honestly this one looked ok this morning and showed no ill signs when I removed the corpse.

Water conditions are fine 0/0/20 ish and ph 7.6. There are no fish larger in the tanks and no real aggressors.

I know not every loss will be explained... But this seemed real sudden.

[Dave66]

One thing few seem to be aware of is a certain kind of worm that are in a lot of freshwater fish. When the fish is stressed somehow, the worms consume most all the food the fish ingests, slowly starving the fish to death. If one laces their fish food prior to feeding the fishes with fresh garlic (crushed it's rather sticky, and adheres to pelleted foods), and feeds such food daily for six weeks, the worms, incapable of consuming garlic-laced foods, starve to death and are purged by the fish.

There are also commercial pelleted foods with garlic as an ingredient.

I do this to all new arrivals, and do it anyway, since my fishes like garlic-laced foods so much. My grocer probably thinks I'm warding off vampires, the amount of garlic I buy regularly :)

Dave

[RayM]

I would never have thought fish would like garlic. Well done Dave66 for your info. I have never liked using the chemicals for worming. Garlic sounds like a good alternative. I'll plant some extra garlic for the fish.

[Dave66]

I use a hand lime press to crush the garlic kernals into a fairly rough puree.

Dave

[Lady Hobbs]

I bought garlic juice. Sprinkled it on pellets and let it soak in and dry back out. My fish ate it that way but not before I allowed drying out. But I still prefer the PraziPro. It's very mild, doesn't hurt the fish in any way and gets rid of worms quickly. I dose the amount for my tank, leave it for 5 days and do a water change. Some fish, once they become ill, refuse to eat and why I use the PraziPro. It also cleans them out because they sure do poop for a few days.

All my fish get wormed.

[ekfishlover2011]

My fish get garlic-laced pellets twice a week. They love them! :)

[RayM]

As long as they all eat the garlic there should be no social isolation