Tandanus Death
firedream5
Member Posts: 3
My son had two tandanus together and has done since they were 6cm long. one was becoming smaller than the other the big one is now 30cm. Anyway we notice that the smaller ones had wounds on the backbone line which we thought happened being stuck in a hide but the wound became bigger and vomited up his food and eventualy after two weeks died today. i had been medicating the water with melafix and my son had to hand feed to get him to eat as he basically laid on his side (could swim fine when needed but didn;t move for food. I seperated the two catfish using a tank barrier when i notice the wound had become larger. The larger catfish has chased the smaller one around since day dot so no behaviour difference other than the fact wounds became evident. What i basically want to know is does this sound like the bigger one seen lunch or could it have been a disease. a couple of times we tried to prop him up off his side and his meat/ skin seem to fall off not in chunks but slivers). the other catfish is perfectly fine and healthy as much as i can check him.
Also my son is devasted and wants another fish we only have the one large tank to house fish so would a silver perch be an ok housemate as long as he is not smaller than the tandanus and also can you get murray cod shipped to western australia. any help appreciated.
Also my son is devasted and wants another fish we only have the one large tank to house fish so would a silver perch be an ok housemate as long as he is not smaller than the tandanus and also can you get murray cod shipped to western australia. any help appreciated.
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How big is your tank? I'd say his wound might have given him disease and that killed him. Poor bugger. One of my 2 foot ones died about a week ago after 8 years. I was and still am devastated
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4ft long not sure in other dimensions maybe 40cm high and wide. Yeah I had to do a burial before my son woke up this morning didnt want him to see it. He was looking so bad yesterday I was going to ask a vet I worked with if she could euthanise it. Amazingly as bad as he was my son would wave food near its whiskers and it would take the food we thought he may just make it.
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Sorry to hear about your loss,Tandys are predators,they may be bottom feeders but theyre still predatory,ive kept em for years,currently have a 14 incher who eats ANYTHING! When smaller theyre ok with other fish,over 5 inch though they become territorial and hungry! In my experience anyway,cheers 8-}
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Sorry to hear that fire dream it is difficult with children.
I'm sorry but a four foot tank really won't be enough. Is there a dam that doesn't have any openings near you where you could put the rest of them or anything? -
I only have one left and our 4ft tank was their growing tank so a bigger tank is in the works
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