Sick. Sick. Sick.

Just 3 days ago, all my fishes fell sick. Even those carrying fries which is in the breeding tank were also sick and all the fries drop dead like ants.

Its the time of the year again. Everytime between the start of August till around December the weird thing happens. All the fishes WILL be sick. I do not know if it is due to the water. I hope not. But it's also the same time last year that all my fishes died. Literally ALL of them. Fingers cross, I hope I will be able to save this breeding squad.

I had just introduce 3 adult fishes into the community tank (which all seems healthy to me) and right after that, all fell sick. Yes I know that I need to quarantine new fishes in a seperate tank but I haven't had any spare tank~! Anyway, that is not suppose to be an excuse for it. It's poor management. I learnt my lesson. Next time I shall ALWAYS QUARANTINE all fishes that I buy.

The funny part is, I am also hearing alot of hobbylist facing the same situation as me. All the fishes will crowd in one corner with their fins clamped. There is no visible onset of any diseases nor any broken tails. Juz 1 or 2 pieces of fishes had their tail turn abit whitish. But the main behaviour of all the fishes are clamp fins and crowding together in one corner.

I do not know what disease it is and how to combat such a situation. So I used Potassium Permaganate coupled with about 2 heap teaspoon of salt (water quantity is about 60 litres) and putting the heater on at 28 degrees. I did this for the pass 2 days with water change daily and putting the same dosage of medication. The result was, they are still sick. However they have spread out around the tank. They are no longer crowding at one corner although they still had their fins clamped.

Anyway below are the picures of the sick fishes with the unknown cause and disease.

Squad in the Making

After so long, some updates on what is happening. I am still reshuffling the team by tranfer listing some of the not needed players (too many players!) and upgrading the squad with more quality enhancing players. So yup, still in the progress.

Reshuffling of The Dream Team

It's been a long time since I last came in and blog. Wow~! It's a whopping nine months in total since my last blog. Well anyway, to cut to the chase, the last time those fishes that was used for my breeding project were all scrape off the team. Either they died (so sad) or was put on the transfer list and sold off.

Anyway, everything is new now and I will only be focusing on two strain. Namely the Reds and the Spotted strain. This two strain shall be created by my Dream Team and some albino genes will be incorporated as well. So the total combinations would be normal Red discus, Albino Red discus, normal Spotted discus and Albino Spotted discus (Albino Leopard, Albino Leopard Snakeskin, Albino Penang Eruption, Albino Singapore Fireworks and its family variations). My eventual dream fish shall just be name simply either as Spotted or Reds (with the word Albino in front if it's a albino, that is).

So stay tune for more updates!

Albino Alenquer

Albino Red Golden Diamond

(without enhance)