VF> Plecos are scavengers. And meat is just as good as algae. Now, your finny
VF> lip-standing buddy may not have _caused_ the fish to go fins up, but as 
sur
VF> as tootin' he/she/it cleaned up the mess.
Nah, any other fish that have died have invariably ended up stuck to the 
filter intake. I've wondered occasionally if maybe they swim to close and
get sucked against it and can't swim away, but surely the filter people have 
thought of the possibility.
VF> This is a potentially serious indicator of a long-standing water problem 
wh
It's definately not the water, as I keep a check on it for PH and amomnia. 
he
water is also crystal clear and has no odor even where the air bubbles 
surface.
VF> is killing fish in reverse order of resilience, or  - more scary - 
cknes
Sickness may be a possibility, but it's probably closer to just a matter of 
t
was the smallest fishies that died, they may have simply not been getting
enough food with the bigger fish around. The barb simply disappeared..
It's always been hard to tell just how much to feed them, since they always 
eat whenever you put food in the tank... but since it's known that fish can 
o
days without food, and I feed them once a day.. I doubt that's it.
Just no way to really know what happened..
--- Renegade v96-132b 
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