You're probably not going to believe this but I am going to tell you anyways. Nanananaa

Sunday mid-morning I did a small water change on my 29 gallon Comp tank.
In that tank is nothing but
1. Gold Head Comp
3. AP's

Well while I was moving some things around to clean,,,,out came about 25-40 AP fry.

Well,,,, wabawhat?? ,,,damn I could not stop the Comp fast enough and he did a number on most of them. dumb dumb dumb dumb

Well at least I dont have to feed it for a few days I thought. idunno

I come home form work,,,log on to this addicting forum, then realize I had some AP fry left in the tank??????

yikes ,,,fry are all gone and the Comp is DEAD!!!!!!! yikes yikes

WTF happened?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Is there such a thing as eating itself to death????????? Grrrr

Now I gotta start all over again. :FAINTLY:

Maybe time for something different. Why you little..


AP.

It probably got a fish bone stuck in its throut. Nanananaa

Sorry for the bad luck Bro, good luck wit hstarting over.

Should have done a necropsy.

Yes, fish can literally eat themselves to death. I've seen young Malawi fry literally eat enough brine shrimp to explode their stomaches. I've watched it happen and was totally blown away by it.

But Mongo's idea may have some merit, either throat or stomache or some other bad spot to get a spine into..

Lisa and Mongo may be right- being that a comp is a hard core predator (to smallerfish), that could what happened.

I totall agree with mongo i lost a frontosa to this about a year or so ago. He ate a baby coo coo catfish and it cost him his lie the cat got stuck half way down and he choked and died.....sucks to hear about it

ouch..
i hate starting over.. because of the time and effort that needs to be done again.
happened with me with occies 3times dumb dumb dumb dumb

1st time, 1/5 occies kills everyone else
2nd time same thing happens again..
3rd time.. my wild male jumped out.

this time i got my Lamprologus speciosus(black occies) in my tank and hoping the for the best..

first 2 times were golds
3rd was yellowfins
4th try is my blacks.

are you going to start over again?
a different type of alto?

ive never had a fish die by over feeding.

Bummer... It just takes so long with these guys. I had some nice yelow calvus. All 4 died same day.Still have not figured it out.

I picked up 5 red fin comps at the ACA hope they do well...
Watch some more paint dry. The growth rate is soooo slow.

Good luck if you start over, they are worth the effort in my opinion.

I have somewhat given up in Calvus/Comps.

Since have had mostly Malawians. All male tanks as I have no room for fry.
Given up on breeding too.

But NEVER count me out on getting some of these fish again,,,,,,,, Tres Bien!

Problem is,,,,I have already had MOST of them,,,it's hard to find ones I have never had.

I have put my want list on here before and nobody can help me find anything I want. Why you little..


So for now,,,,Malawains it is.

One thing bothers me though,,I have heard that Malawians were PRONE to bloat???? No issues as of yet. Tres Bien! Must be getting lucky again. Is this true???


AP.

Just wanted to add,,,,if I can find these as well as a few I cannot find,,,I may get that itch again. idunno

AP I have many Malawi cichlids. I have lost 1 female Kenyi to Malawi bloat. I have Tangs and Americans to. I just want some of all of them...

I hope you find some of those so I can get some fry from you..
Awesome looking fish.

I believe Malawians are prone to bloat, but not at the rate that
many people claim.

Some are often misdiagnosed.

As Anton said at the OCA last year, the biggest problem
people have in keeping fish is overfeeding them!

If a tank's stress factors are reduced to minimum aggression levels
and a well balanced diet is followed, then bloat should not be a big problem.

My 2 incidents with bloat came when adding new fish to the tank.