dilemma :( - upset

[j@mie]

I dunno what to do, im mega upset about this, I have a 20g tank i used to house my snakeheads until i got another tank, so now i have, i moved my other fish guppies etc from a smaller tank to the 1 that housed the snakeheads, this is how i went about it.

I purchased a water solution from my LFS so i wouldnt have the ammonia prob, said half a cap full per 40g ( can be safely doubled ) .

I came home, emptied the tank as it was filthy, swirled the gravel about to clean the dirty water away. set it all up with fresh plants etc, treated the water, put the fish in, about 10 in total. they loved it, swimming for the love of god! 1 thing i forgot thou was to plug the pump in, i didnt think this mattered too much. Then all of a sudden last nite i realised no fish were about, i found 5 neons dead, and the rest acting strange, my white shark jumped out of the tank!!! twice. He was going mental. the others just look disoriented, i thought WTF, so i did sum water tests, nothing out of the ordinary. a little ammonia, but nothing 2 dangerous, nitrate and ph were near perfect, tbh the readings were nothing different that the last tank of 6 months, which they lived in with NO problems.

So i dunno, i just woke up this morn and my syamese fighter was on the bottom, this has really hit me as ive had him for ages : (

please will someone shed some light on this for me, i have about another 4 fish, 1 of which is a neon, i can tell there is sumot wrong. But please tell me cos i just dont know.

The stuff i got from the LFS is called Stress Guard.

Ty

 

[moray]

The fact that you had no filter would mean there wasn't enough oxygen in the tank. At night the plant remove oxygen, so with nothing to replace it your tank became unfit to house fish in. You need to do a water change and put your filter in.

 

[FighterFishy]

I havn't used stress guard so i can't comment on that but i hope you find the problem soon.

Take morays advice, if they are real plants that was probably your problem.

Good luck with the remaining and keep us updated

Can your betta get air from the top of the tank as they can breath from the top aswell ??

 

[j@mie]

The fact that you had no filter would mean there wasn't enough oxygen in the tank. At night the plant remove oxygen, so with nothing to replace it your tank became unfit to house fish in. You need to do a water change and put your filter in.

the filter is in, its the pump that generates the bubbles that wasnt.

i have alot of plants to replicate their natural enviroment,

If it was a air problem, will having a pump solve this ? or do i need sumthing extra ?

thanks

 

[WILDER]

Did you add them to the tank at the correct temp, and also what is your tap water ph to your tank ph, how much new water did you add to the tank.

 

[Leslie]

Stress Guard is not a dechlorinator... unless you used another product to dechlorinate it sounds like that may be the problem.

 

[G_Sharky]

It could be that you didn't add a dechlorinator on the new water that you put and maybe your fish got shocked because you didn't accumilate them properly to your new tank. If your water parameters are good, then your fish should come back, just give them a few days to recover, it's like the fish we get from shipping, it takes a day or two for them to recover....Good luck...

 

[j@mie]

well cos i had snakeheads in my tank, hence the food they eat, i had to do a complete water change so i could clean the gravel quickly.

As for chloride in the water, ive been told it doesnt exist in my area. Hence that, ive not treated the water many times b4, and never had this problem.

the water temp was no different than the tank they came from. so it cant be that.

its just a mystery.

 

[sylvia]

Are your water parameters within limits? I would use a de-chlorinator incase you do have chlorine - it's almost everywhere nowadays. I would hope the tank is cycled after housing the snakeheads for however long but test your water regularly anyway.

Oh and you say there was a little ammonia - anything above 0 often is deadly. Nitrate and pH are not too problematic. A constant pH and nitate below 40 is all you realy need. However, what about nitrIte?

Maybe you need to read through the link in my sig.

BTW, the betta would not have died from a lack of oxygen though other fish would - make sure you always have a filter (other than with some labyrinths). Bettas can live their whole lives outside water provided they remain wet so it is more likely he couldn't reach the surface or something in the water killed him while the other fish died from the lack of oxygen and possibly bad water quality.

 

[gale]

The chlorine removers also remove chloramine and heavy metals from water. I probably don't have chlorine either since we have well water, but I use it anyway since we might have the heavy metals and not really sure what chloramine is but maybe it's in there too.

 

[j@mie]

i dont have a betta - thats the 2nd person to mention it, :confuzzled:

 

[Skylar]

a siamese fighter is a betta, i thought? thats what they label my bettas as at my LFS.

 

[j@mie]

ahh, i see. now i know, thanks

 

[yvez9]

betta is actually from the scientific name, betta splended

the english name is siamese fighting fish

 

[Sean_Buckley]

betta is actually from the scientific name, betta splended

the english name is siamese fighting fish

Actually, the scientific name is 'Betta splendens', but I won't be picky. You don't know how many people I have heard call them 'Chinese Fighting Fish', which really ticks me off, I mean, if they don't even know the common name, they mustn't know enough about the fish to be keeping it! COME ON!
Sean