Could it be the heat? Last few days was damn humid and warm.
Anything unusual at the water surface?
So sad to see your apistos go...
This time it's happening to me.
Since 2 days ago, my fishes was dying on me. So far I've lost at least 10 Apistos, 2 checkerboard, 8 cories ,2 rummynose and 1 SAE. So far I've been doing 50% water change daily. Yesterday I tried using carbon. Cleaned my filter with tank water but still the same.
The funny part is that they did not show any signs of disstress before dying. I can see some red patches on the body of the dead fish.There was no sign of white poop nor any of them gasping for air. However, one of my sterbai eyes were like swollen..... NH3/NO2 poisoning?
Water parameter: pH-7, kH-2 and NO3-10ppm, temp 31deg.
Can someone help diagnose wats wrong?
Could it be the heat? Last few days was damn humid and warm.
Anything unusual at the water surface?
So sad to see your apistos go...
koah fong
Juggler's tanks
Oh dear [:0]!!! Hope its not from my plants?
Vincent - AQ is for everyone, but not for 'u' and 'mi'.
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Juggler,
The heat is normal. My tank is normally 30 to 32deg.
Vinz,
Dun think it's yur plants... actually my very hardy albino cory first died after I started removing my E.tenellus (due to BBA). Could it be due to excessive base fert in the water. Water now is clear though....
recall anything u added?
sound like acute poisoning.... copper (from pipes? Try letting the water run a while before filling in), insecticide?, household chemicals (splash into tank while cleaning/mopping?), misting from workers fuming outside?
Nothing extraordinary happened this few days..... no water disruption, no renovation etc. Not sure if any chemicals fallen into my tank. Me very very puzzled.....
Measured your N and P? What about PH?
The fert in the water may have thrown things off.
Vincent - AQ is for everyone, but not for 'u' and 'mi'.
Why use punctuation? See what a difference it makes:A woman, without her man, is nothing.
A woman: without her, man is nothing.
i agree with budak
it sounds like something foreign is in the water.
What do you add in your substrate? Tabs/spikes?----------------
On 6/24/2002 11:10:02 AM
... actually my very hardy albino cory first died after I started removing my E.tenellus (due to BBA). Could it be due to excessive base fert in the water. Water now is clear though....
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Those spikes and tabs for potted plants contains very high and concentrated NH3. If those spikes have softened and mixed into the water, it may have caused a NO2 spike.
BC
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On 6/24/2002 12:26:13 PM
What do you add in your substrate? Tabs/spikes?----------------
On 6/24/2002 11:10:02 AM
... actually my very hardy albino cory first died after I started removing my E.tenellus (due to BBA). Could it be due to excessive base fert in the water. Water now is clear though....
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Those spikes and tabs for potted plants contains very high and concentrated NH3. If those spikes have softened and mixed into the water, it may have caused a NO2 spike.
BC
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Could be, but I dun have tester to check. What I can do now is juz change water.... wat else could I do?
the red patches are very suggestive
nitrite poisoning could cause internal bleeding with symptoms similar to those u described
get a nitrite test kit
change water
add any salt with chloride (kcl, mgcl2, nacl etc)
man ! I'm sorry to hear what had had happened !.
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Why salts with chloride?----------------
On 6/24/2002 2:09:15 PM
the red patches are very suggestive
nitrite poisoning could cause internal bleeding with symptoms similar to those u described
get a nitrite test kit
change water
add any salt with chloride (kcl, mgcl2, nacl etc)
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Anyway, fast growing plants like Frogbit, Hornwort can also help soak up the excess nutrients/ poisons?
koah fong
Juggler's tanks
Sad to hear that..... same thing happen to me sometime ago.... same die with out reason... red patch on body..... 3 weeks after i add the fertilizer stick...
last 2 days my guppies fires die on me too....
because the cl- interferes with nitrite uptake
Sorry to hear that ... just for brainstorming and investigation sake !
Let's ...
1. Do a headcount including snails, if u have.
2. Std check on Water.
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Thanx DEA. Your explantion sound the most likely cos. If my memory serve me right, 'Lo Salt' is KCL right?
I'll go home annd do another water change and change one more time in the morning before I leave tommorrow to Thailand....
Wife juz SMS me saying another 7 fish died...... Not sure what fish died but this is really disasterous
So sorry to hear that. U mentioned about the red patch at the fish body. Is it near the stomach area? If that so, it might be some kind of tetra diease. I have encountered this before. It wipe out my rummy noise swam of 50 in 2 days and even spread to guppies and apsito and pencil fish. I don't know u got any medium size fish like atum, discus in your tank. If u have it, u notice they are not affected. I have no document proof or any source on this diease, this is my encounter 2 years back.
Wats the dosage for KCL?
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