Did My Fish Get Shocked

[Boids-n-more]

I noticed this afternoon my Central american cichlid tank got cloudy all of a sudden. I ammidately tested the water and ammonia and nitates were at 0 and my nitrites were at 1.5. I had fed them about 10 minutes before it went cloudy so i checked the food in some water and it didn't cloud up. once the water cleared up some i noticed the fish were real lathargic and moveing around much and then noticed my water heater looked odd. I looked a little closer and saw it was broke in half. I then unplugged the heater and removed the pieces and in doing so the water got cloudy again. my local fish store was closed at this time so i replaced it with one from wallmart. i am thinking the fish got a lil jolt from this and i was wondering if theres anything i could do to help them? I did try to feed them again and they had no interest in eating. any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[WILDER]

Water change, run some fresh black carbon and also replace filter floss with new.
Look out for a bent spine as stray voltage in a tank can cause a fish to have a bent spine.
Good luck.

 

[Boids-n-more]

i don't see any bent spines , the carbon is in now and the water is being changed. Should i do a 50% water change?

 

[WILDER]

Not sure on size of tank say a 30%.
Good luck.

 

[Boids-n-more]

I did a 60% water change. I have a habit of overdoing it on my water changes. The fish are comeing out and showing activity but i have yet to see them eat. I might just go get some ghost shrimp and see if i can get them going again. Bye the way what was all that sediment the heater put into my tank?

 

[WILDER]

Don't know that why you need to do a water change and run some fresh black carbon and also new floss or matting.

 

[Boids-n-more]

When i did the water change i removed all decor and and gave the gravel a supervac. I added some carbon to my ugf where its pumped by air. The fluval canister i left alone. All the fish seem to be back to there normal behavior tonite and they ate tonite also. It seems like they escaped any harm ( except for the what the hell was that jolt from syndrone). Thanks for your advice , this was actually the first time i had a piece of equipment fail on me like this.

 

[WILDER]

Glad everything back to normal, well done.

 

[Boids-n-more]

Thank you.