A healthy liver for freshwater fishes should be dark reddish-brown in color (slightly lighter compared to human liver color) and with even coloration. The liver appearance in your picture is spotted and pale. It's seems to be more towards Viral Hepatitis rather than poisoning.spotfin;3225173; said:
gross anatomy
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Nothing "just" happens. It happens for a reason. If a cause is figured out it may help the entire hobby or just one person. Either way it would help.
IF someone close to you died cause they "just got sick" wouldn't you want an answer rather than chalking it up to "stuff just happens"?
IF someone close to you died cause they "just got sick" wouldn't you want an answer rather than chalking it up to "stuff just happens"?
Well, if I read the bag I would never use that anywhere near a fishtank or anything else alive. " Contains chemical(s) which can cause cancer"...'silicate silicate silicate'..... wasn't that enough warning for you? ( I guess not)
I think this is very possibly the cause of your problems
I think this is very possibly the cause of your problems
not that it makes it right, but i have been using the exact same stuff for avoer a year with no ill effects. I know several other people also using it for about the same amount of time or longer. I have a hard time believing that it caused the death...
i agree with david . if i saw that bag i would be reluctant to put it on the garden let alone in the fish tank . why does sand need loads of chemicles ? any ingested chemicles have to be bad
maybe bad enough over a long period to cause these problems maybe not . but i dont think i woud be putting that stuff in my tank .
sounds like the liver issue is worth looking into a bit more . something must have caused it .
do you put any other chemicls in the water ? perhaps some other meds . sorry but going on the bag of sand i wonder if there is anything else that could contribute . maybe meds containting copper or something like that ?
or perhaps a new water source
maybe bad enough over a long period to cause these problems maybe not . but i dont think i woud be putting that stuff in my tank .
sounds like the liver issue is worth looking into a bit more . something must have caused it .
do you put any other chemicls in the water ? perhaps some other meds . sorry but going on the bag of sand i wonder if there is anything else that could contribute . maybe meds containting copper or something like that ?
or perhaps a new water source
really Keepingfish?
after what you read on the bag about eye contact/swallowed/inhalation? and Chromium? that stuff alone can be deadly
after what you read on the bag about eye contact/swallowed/inhalation? and Chromium? that stuff alone can be deadly
DavidW;3226541; said:
well, for years i have myself and seen others use pool filter sand, it says " contains silicate" Do not breathe" may cause lung cancer" may cause silicosis"
but now you have me worried about Chromium.
