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one fish dead, and it was a female to boot
i fed my discus before i went out for lunch today twice(frozen beef heart earlier and then brine shrimp just before i left), when i returned home from lunch and hour and a half later one of my discus was dead. she showed no signs of stress and had a very healthy appetite, she ate a bit of beefheart this morning and a bit of brine shrimp with all the rest of my fish. nitrates are at zero, and i change 5 gallons of water a day in a 55 gal. so i figured i might as well disect the fish to see if there were any visible worms inside her intestines. it was quite hard to tell because of the amount of bloodworms in her stomach but i wasnt very sure if all of them were bloodworms. i am aware though that most of the bad worms that id be looking for would probably be almost to small to see. i did see however a few in there that were very transperant with a black dot on one end. anyway if anyone could have me with any ideas that would be great. my only idea is maybe she got startled a bit somehow and hit something. i would this stress related if she wasnt so active and if her color was different but she showed no signs of any of this. and i was really hoping to get a female in this group and i am now hoping she was not the only one.