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Overfeed: Feed much and
often.
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Spray and aerosol. Insect
sprays, hairspray and window cleaner etc.
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Overcrowd: Keep stacking
them in.
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Poor filtration: What does
it matter if the water is cloudy and grey?
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Use 'el cheapo' fish foods:
Usually crushed dog biscuit type.
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Give them a total water
change: Especially if they are in very old water
or warm water at the moment.
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Use water from new copper
pipes: If the chlorine doesn't get them, this
will.
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Use water from new galvanized
tanks: Just in case they have survived
everything else.
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Use fibreglass filter wool:
Give them silicosis of the gills.
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Medicate, medicate, medicate:
Use some blue stuff, some yellow stuff ...
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Bang the glass when passing:
Can't have them lazy and tranquil.
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Do not quarantine: This
gives your old fish an unfair fighting chance. Let
them have some new germs to make life interesting.
In short, if they get sick, see Point 10.
Some Special Points for
Tropicals
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Put your big fish with little
fish: Make the bigger fish bigger.
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Let the temperature go up, up,
up or down, down, down: They won't know whether
they are coming or going.
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Don't worry about the pH or
acid level: Let 'em burn a little.
-
Ignore the ammonia and nitrite
level: It's far too technical and they probably
died of something else anyway.
Taken from Cichlid Monthly,
Volume 14, Number 8.
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