My angel died :(

I noticed my angel fish wasn't coming out as much he just stayed behind this one rock it was his favorite spot... when I looked at him he seemed perfectly normal.. today when I came home from school it was dead. it was a very small pygmy angel, my water wasn't the bestest. my phosphates are a high 1.0 my nitrates were about .25 and I just put some carbon in. I fed about three times a week, he ate yesterday I just dunno what did him in. Im doing a 50% water change tomorrow to get my water perfect.

 

starfish2217

fish do pass away, and sometimes we dont know why - there are not always visible signs of a problem (internal parasites etc)

the parameters you describe above (do you mean 25ppm nitrate ) would not be the reason for the death of your fish

so a 50% water change may be an over reaction IMO

Steve

 

sorry for your loss..what kind of diet were you feeding,and what other tank mates..

 

Yea I mean ppm... I just can't get my nitrates and phosphates to 0 thats why Im doing a water change. I feed them the ocean nutrition food.. in there was a tiny tiny baby clown less than an inch long.. a green clown goby, and a fire shrimp.. plus all the snails and hermies... thats it.

 

Sorry for ur loss Starfish Where in UT are you from? I grew up in West Jordan and Murray.

 

Sorry for your loss But your water seems okay, as long as there is no ammonia or nitrites. Nitrates and phosphates don't hurt fish. Well nitrates could if they were super high, but 25ppm isn't bad.

 

Sorry for your loss, I agree your parameters are not the problem. I think Steve's post nailed it on the head.

 

I grew up in rose park just near down town salt lake I go to west jordan and murry all the time thats great, I hope to move to the coast !

 

thanks everyone I was pretty bummed.. he was one of my favorite fish he was beautiful... Im thinking he didn't get enough food maybe ughhh.... I dunno its okay I will try harder!

 

I believe unless i am wrong if you can find some type of food with a sponge supplement that will help angels. Just what I heard.