Hi everyone,

It has been a while since I have been on - as life has been beyond stressful for the last 3 months.

I feel really bad as I have been neglecting my fish as I had other pet problems. As a brief overview of my last 3 months, I raise and show champion Cardigan Welsh Corgis. We lost our beloved Demi (who was more of a daughter to us than a dog) during a c-section. We were left with 8 surviving orphan pups - which are now 3 months old and doing fabulously. During this time, my fish got fed, and maybe a water change every few weeks - definitely not the weekly regimine. Water testing did show levels that were ok - heading toward stress but not in danger.

Anyhow, I realised I had the wrong type pleco in my goldfish tank. So when we did do a water change, he was attached to my thermometer so I was able to catch him easily - he hated me for a month the last time I tried to catch him. So I bagged him up and aclamated him to my guppy tank which was full of algea. This was Saturday.

Last night he was very lethargic, and today he was alive but belly up. So I placed him a bag in my freezer to euthanize him. I feel horrid as he was quite content in my goldfish tank and thriving.

I do have one real plant in the guppy tank and that has a foamy base that you plant into the rocks. I noticed it all a mess - and disturbed. Do you think my pleco could have tried to eat this? I did have his veggie clip in the tank with a too big of piece of pleco passion... I prob over fed and killed him.

Any which way, I feel absolutely terrible that I killed my fish - if I left him he would be fine.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Holly

I'm really sorry to hear that you lost your Pleco.Did you happen to test the water Params on both tanks?Even though you may have acclimated him for a bit-there's a good possibility that it may have indeed been a water quality issue. Again,I'm so sorry for you.

Really sorry you lost your plec.
little plec

I had the water tested at one of the pet super centers and added the Amquel plus like they recommended - it was not in danger level, but stress level. I will not add anything else to that tank until I do several more changes and get it under contol.