Lots Of Dead Fish

[ky*weremiej]

I need some advice, has anyone's fish every caught a disease from frozen food ? I am 100% certain that mine have ! I have suffered mass casualties through 3 tanks and an not happy at all, I know my water was clean so it was nothing to do with water quality or poor tank maintenance or any other human error my 4th tank is fine and that's the only tank that is ok, so I have now lost a lot of fish and money.
 
So where do I stand ? do I just tank it as a loss or complain at my local fish store or to the frozen food company ?
 
 

 

[rms]

Hi,
 
Sorry to hear about your losses. It's definitely worth speaking to the food supplier, but maybe something to back up the idea it was the food. Are there any visible signs of illness? If so maybe post a few pictures here and maybe someone can identify what they had. If that illness is caught, possibly, from frozen foods you have something to back it up.Obviously I have no idea what your LFS are like or how well you know them, but if they think the food is to blame they might compensate you. Again I can only speculate on that.
 
From my limited experience I get the idea wipeouts are generally from something quite bad. Something so sudden like these does suggest something got in the tank. The usual parameter tests may show up something, you never know. Also, did you not feed the fish in the 4ft tank from the same frozen food? If not then seems likely to me it's the food.
 
If nothing else, you might save someone else going through the same if the LFS withdraw the batch. 

 

[the_lock_man]

 

Also, did you not feed the fish in the 4ft tank from the same frozen food? If not then seems likely to me it's the food.
 
 

 
That's the vital point for me.

 

[rms]

Some info you might find helpful in speaking with the LFS...
 
"Frozen foods have none of the problems of live foods, which can introduce diseases, and most are treated with radiation before being sold. That’s not to say that this food will set Geiger counters racing or give you cancer, but does mean that any pathogens that could have survived the freezing process — and there are some — will have been eradicated........ Frozen foods, however, do need to remain just that — frozen. Once defrosted, they have either to be used immediately or discarded. They cannot be refrozen as this will lead to the production of free radicals and they become toxic as a food source. Stored correctly, they will remain good for around 18 months."
 
Maybe best to keep an open mind for the time being though, unless you are 100% certain it was the food.

 

[KirkyArcher]

I know that once my sister followed the LFS advice "that it would be all right to just place the frozen block straight in the tank and let it float about and the fish will eat it as it thaws out" rather than the instructions on the packaging of doing the thawing in a cup of tank water, that advice from LFS resulting in 5 fish deaths, Also lots of times I've seen an increased frenzy when feeding "fresh food" to my fish over that when feeding flake/wafers and pellets, risking the fish engorging themselves and getting bloated.

 

[PrairieSunflower]

I've bought frozen blood words from Pets At Home that made my fish sick but did not cause death. 

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Very hard case to prove it was the food and nothing else, but sorry for your losses, mass wipeouts are a real test of a fishkeeper's resolve.

 

[ky*weremiej]

4th tank is fine so it was the food however,
 
RMS pointed out that is it defrosts it has to be eaten or discarded, I have to admit I was stuck in bad traffic the day I bought my last supply so it must be because it defrosted a little, what a pain this has become I will throw all the food away and take this as a very bad day and a learning curve.
 
I am totally gutted !!!

 

[rms]

I am totally gutted !!!

 

At least you know why. A very small consolation, but if it was me I'd be going crazy if I didn't know the reason.

 

[ky*weremiej]

Well my surviving fish are in my medical tank now until they get better and I will distribute them between the 3 tropical tanks I have once they are fine, on the bright side of things I have been wanting to get a saltwater tank so I have stripped my corner 190 and I am going to make it my first saltwater tank.
 
I cant believe something so simple has decimated my best tropical tank

 

 

[DerpPH]

Sorry to hear that, probably was the shifting temps that killed them.

 

[rms]

I have been wanting to get a saltwater tank so I have stripped my corner 190 and I am going to make it my first saltwater tank.
 

 
A journal would be cool...

 

[DerpPH]

 

I have been wanting to get a saltwater tank so I have stripped my corner 190 and I am going to make it my first saltwater tank.
 

 
A journal would be cool...
 

+1
 
The bigger the volume the better

 

[ky*weremiej]

I will do a journal, its about time I did one !