Flame cardinal trio in QT, lost one so far

[SashimiTurtle]

I got a trio of flame cardinals yesterday. Went into QT and everyone looked great. Today I noticed one was looking a little pale, but still active. When I got back from eating thanksgiving dinner the pale one was dead. The other small one is now looking pale. The larger of the three still has good color. Ammonia is 0, there's a long cycled sponge filter and a power filter for extra circulation and mechanical filtration. I've dosed metroplex and kanaplex suspection a bacteria infection.

Yesterday

Today

Two left alive.

 

[4FordFamily]

I find cardinals to be difficult to QT I seem to lose half of them. I’ve not tried flame (although I almost purchased that trio on divers den a few days ago).

I don’t think they ship well and my QT are flow heavy and I feel that may be a contributor as well.

Sorry I’m not more help...

 

[SashimiTurtle]

The two still alive are eating... so at least that's good.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

And then there was one... still looks healthy and eating well. I think we had a bullying issue. The second one to die was hiding a lot before it passed. The large one has always been in the open, and the other two were in the open at first. Hopefully this one makes it thru the rest of QT.