Poor fishies!! They have lived for quite some time. DH thinks it is because the filter needs changed(which I plan on getting one tomorrow!) I feel bad. I hope they didnt suffer.
RIP fishy fishy.....
RIP fishy fishy.....
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All my minnows died
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Some kinds of minnows need dirty brackish water, not clean water like other fish.
If you get any more minnows look up what kind they are and the care required for them.
http://fish.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/C...yprinidae.html
Apparently there's more kinds than I knew about.
Good luck if you decided to get anymore.
If you get any more minnows look up what kind they are and the care required for them.
http://fish.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/C...yprinidae.html
Apparently there's more kinds than I knew about.
Good luck if you decided to get anymore.
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Originally Posted by strange_wings
Some kinds of minnows need dirty brackish water, not clean water like other fish.
If you get any more minnows look up what kind they are and the care required for them.
http://fish.dnr.cornell.edu/nyfish/C...yprinidae.html
Apparently there's more kinds than I knew about.
Good luck if you decided to get anymore.
The minnow that is most commonly sold/used as a bait fish in Kansas is the Fathead Minnow. They are a hardy fish that can tolerate low oxygen levels, heavy silt buildup, and pollution (which is bad in itself but even worse in a closed system such as a fish tank).
The other minnow that is also widely seen in Kansas bait shops is the Golden Shiner.
The other minnow that is also widely seen in Kansas bait shops is the Golden Shiner.
I am sorry that you lost your fish. We had some goldfish that we lost last year - they were in a huge tank that we got when our old one burst (which was very messy and left the poor fishies gasping), but the filter wasn't up to coping with the size of the new tank that someone donated to us - one night it was really hot weather and we had algae go nuts in the tank and the filter clogged and they all died. They'd been through moving house in buckets, a burst tank, gasping to breathe on the floor, living in a rubbermaid storage box for a few days, and had survived it all to have just 6 months in their new nice huge tank. I miss the fishies, they were getting nice and big too
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Yeah I thought thats what they were.....I wonder what caused them to die though. Now tonite I came home and our huge goldfish is dead.
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LOL-yeah thats what they were supposed to be for~lol. But a certain 'lil girl wanted one for a pet, and then that one turned into 3
And my other goldfish died today, I have no clue what happened.....
Generally if you had all of them die at once it generally means one of a few things: something got in the water (this could be anything from too much food to some kind of air freshener and many more things) It was too hot or too cold (may a water change that was the wrong temp.) It is rare that they would all die at once just because the filter needed changing. Especially minnows because they are rather hardy fish and they aren't in anyway as dirty as a goldfish is... Anyhow, sorry for your loss...
