Yesterday i added a few river rocks into the aquarium thinking it was a good idea. But today i found two of my danio zebra dead:( Is it because of the rocks? I feel so bad. They are also in turtle aquarium, but idk if it is because of the turtles.. cuz they dont chase them or anything.. I removed the rocks, but i feel so bad. My oher 10 danios and corys are still alive tho.
Posted by skinny_18
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Don’t blame yourself and accidents happen. You caught it early, removed the rocks, and your other fish are safe.
Unlikely to be the rocks. What are your water parameters? Water parameters are very important for fish and their health. If can be a challenge to maintain good water parameters with turtles.
Checking your water parameters, ph, ammonia, nitrite and nitrates are the most important when diagnosis what went wrong as well.
Remember we keep water not fish.
It is a good idea to hydrogen peroxide pipe and then rinse anything going into an aquarium. Especially if it’s from a river or outside, this is how you get anchor worms
If you haven’t already done a water test do so; a single turtle is an incredible bio load on a tank and you said turtles so the water quality could be quite bad potentially. Where did you get these rocks? Also very unlikely your turtles aren’t chasing/ trying to eat your fish, they are predators after all.
Probably not the rocks, all rocks in my tanks are from local waterways and yards(sorry neighbors). I think the turtles would eat them if they killed them, but turtles produce a lot of waste so maybe check the water quality like another comment suggested
idk it’s hard to say i doubt it would be a single day that anything added would kill them. especially not something leaching from the rocks unless the rocks had some sort of major contaminate that you didn’t wash off like some sort of petroleum based product from river run off. but if you washed them well i highly doubt it was the rocks. perhaps just a coincidence or they died from stress. fish die for thousands of reasons, if your parameters are good and the rest of your fish seem fine then you should be ok.
It’s not the rocks. Any fish with aquatic turtles will become food. Turtles naturally eat fish. It’s most likely that your turtle tried to eat the danios and failed and they died from stress and/or injury. Professionals who keep fish with turtles treat the fish as enrichment for the turtles. You generally can’t keep fish with turtles long term unless you have a very big tank with places the turtle can’t get to so the fish can flee if they are being chased. Most scientific resources I have read that keep them together have success in 150+ gallons but with standard tank size, (40-60 gallons depending on the size of the turt) they have a lot of fish loss.