Dead After Moving Tank

[Lizzie71]

Today I moved 3 guppies and one platy to my 10 gallon tank, which was empty apart from 4 amano shrimps. These were all fish I have owned for over 6 months.

Within 2 hours one otherwise healthy guppy was stone dead.

The platy is also lurking at the bottom looking miserable.

I bagged them up like you do when you buy new fish and acclimatized them in the same way. I also transferred some mature media from the other tank as the small tank had been empty for a few days (except for the shrimps).

Now I don't know whether to move the other 3 fish back or leave them to take their chances.

Help!

 

[Truck]

id leave them so they dont get even more stressed. as you know fish get very stressed very quickly. it was just probably an unfortunate stress related death

 

[WILDER]

Are you sure you climatised them long enough.
You have to match ph and temp.
How are the fish acting are they darting and laboured breathing.
Any excess slime on the fish body.
Any toxins got into the tank water.

 

[Lizzie71]

Maybe I didn't acclimatize for long enough. Temp is a couple of degrees higher in the smaller tank.

Toxins in tank - unlikely I think. I used clean new freezer bags.

No other symptoms on remaining fish. Platy is hiding at the moment, but this is probably just stress. I have turned off the lights and will leave them overnight and look again tomorrow.

 

[WILDER]

Sounds like you didn't climatise them properly.
Did you check ph and temp from main tank to new.
If you only have livebeares in the tank maybe salt for the stress.

 

[Tolak]

New clean freezer bags are the only odd thing out. 50% water change, double up on dechlor.

Unless the temperature change is really drastic, you really shouldn't have a problem. I regularly move fish from tank to tank with a few degrees temp difference. I just moved a breeding pair & 6 potential breeders from a 83F tank to a 78F tank. Net, turn around, and put them in. I did the same thing to the potential breeders yesterday, fish room upgrade in progress. The potential breeders were fine with it this morning.

Many livebearers are incredibly inbred to get the color morphs, this gives you a pretty fish with a weak immune system, and not much hardiness.

 

[shellz2008]

id say probably stress but if was me id keep an eye on remaining fish and water conditions just to be sure

 

[echo133]

Today I moved 3 guppies and one platy to my 10 gallon tank, which was empty apart from 4 amano shrimps. These were all fish I have owned for over 6 months.

Within 2 hours one otherwise healthy guppy was stone dead.

The platy is also lurking at the bottom looking miserable.

I bagged them up like you do when you buy new fish and acclimatized them in the same way. I also transferred some mature media from the other tank as the small tank had been empty for a few days (except for the shrimps).

Now I don't know whether to move the other 3 fish back or leave them to take their chances.

Help!

Poor fish...
you should've cept the Guppies and the Platy in a seperate tank, i'm not sure about the shrimps
Best of luck with the two remaining Guppies and the Platy