Hi,
My fiancee and I have been trying to keep A. agassizii for a while, but regularly lose them to exactly the same symptoms, which no one's been able to help us with really - after a long spell of no losses, we've suddenly got another one displaying the same symptoms, which basically is suddenly becoming really thin, so thin it looks like the stomach is starting to cave in, then they hide for about 24 hours before dying shortly after.
We have a couple of established females (one of which is now starting to thin and display the symptoms), and 2 that we've had in the tank for about a month, one is a male and the other was bought as a female (but we're not convinced, it's grown large if it is a female!). The sick one is eating, although most of what she takes in comes out through her gills, so we're not sure how much she's actually digesting.
Our tank conditions are:
125l (33gal) semi-planted tank with lots of wood and caves.
0 Ammonia
0 Nitrite
20 Nitrate
8d GH
6.4 pH
Tank mates, apart from Apisto's mentioned are a couple of Ghost Widow Tetra's, a few neon's, a few rasboro's and 3 Cory's.
We always Quarantine new fish, treating for bacteria and parasites, so we're pretty sure it's neither of those, we have the usual occasional squabbles between the Apisto's, but they're fairly infrequent.
Does anyone have any recommendations/ideas?
My fiancee and I have been trying to keep A. agassizii for a while, but regularly lose them to exactly the same symptoms, which no one's been able to help us with really - after a long spell of no losses, we've suddenly got another one displaying the same symptoms, which basically is suddenly becoming really thin, so thin it looks like the stomach is starting to cave in, then they hide for about 24 hours before dying shortly after.
We have a couple of established females (one of which is now starting to thin and display the symptoms), and 2 that we've had in the tank for about a month, one is a male and the other was bought as a female (but we're not convinced, it's grown large if it is a female!). The sick one is eating, although most of what she takes in comes out through her gills, so we're not sure how much she's actually digesting.
Our tank conditions are:
125l (33gal) semi-planted tank with lots of wood and caves.
0 Ammonia
0 Nitrite
20 Nitrate
8d GH
6.4 pH
Tank mates, apart from Apisto's mentioned are a couple of Ghost Widow Tetra's, a few neon's, a few rasboro's and 3 Cory's.
We always Quarantine new fish, treating for bacteria and parasites, so we're pretty sure it's neither of those, we have the usual occasional squabbles between the Apisto's, but they're fairly infrequent.
Does anyone have any recommendations/ideas?