crazy neons death

**monstar** · 4th Apr 2009, 15:22

hi all, my neons are dying one by one in some weird way. one after another like free only. here it goes one of them will seperate themself from the group and then surface and die, then another and another . is this the work of some deathnote or wad?

**monstar** · 4th Apr 2009, 22:21

anybody knows why? they're not dying from white spots. white spots gone. body in perfect condition good colour . just dunno why

**cheetf** · 5th Apr 2009, 07:54

How long have you been keeping them? How many in how big a tank? Maybe you would get more answers if you included more details.

**monstar** · 5th Apr 2009, 20:46

1 feet tank . 10 neons . internal filter . tank 3 weeks old. 18w lighting . hc only tank.

**k3nlim** · 8th Apr 2009, 19:09

maybe the tank is not fully cycled..

**zerg66** · 24th May 2009, 18:00

i had a similar incident that reduced my neon population from 30 to 2..lol..these 2 are still currently living though.. besides your water chemistry and all that stuff, i deduced that mine might had died because of 2 reasons.
1. Over changing of water.. i was kinda getting rid of an outbreak of just before they started dying off. Problem was after that i was kinda obsessed with changing the water and was doing it over regularly, like twice a week. noticed they started dying off in the 3rd week of my obsession of clean water. Might had been the stress of changing water. Did a 20% change each time.
2. You might have been overfeeding your fishes. Prior to this, i was feeding my fishes 3 times a day, everyday. all my fishes had fat bellies and while this was cute to look at, obesity does kill..

**sanhas** · 14th Jul 2009, 01:45

Probably a good point on the feeding. I fed mine at that kind of intervals too and YES! my neons were all dead within weeks.
Give up! I wonder what's the best feeding intervals for fish cause the food direction always advise for 3 feedings a day.