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Post Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:55 pm   How did my minnows die?

Today when I was cleaning out their bucket I fished them out and put them into a cup but when I did I dropped one of them they flopped out of the fish net fell around 3 feet onto a hard tile floor, So I had a feeling he was going to die since that was a big fall. Well he did but I noticed he started to swim side ways and upside down before he did what is that?
Then I noticed my other minnow doing the same exact thing but I didn't drop him then he died. How did he die?
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Post Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:59 pm   Re: How did my minnows die?

It could be a number of things:thermic shock, contaminated water, straight tap water in the cup, water with too different parameters (bucket + cup), disease.
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Post Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:48 pm   Re: How did my minnows die?

Oh crap haha. It was straight tap water into the cup..... Also the 3 left died to :( They where also in straight tap water.
Also since I have plants in the bucket would the fish decompose help the plants grow?
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