Oh What A Night

[AJGray]

where to start we did a water change and rougly half 7 8o'clock because of very murky water and turned the filter up a notch

that didnt work went to bed at about 10 and blaine for some reason got out of bed to check on the fish, he still doesnt know why but glad he did otherwise i think we'd have no fish left. When he checked he found a black neon 2 neon tetras a glass cat and our un'id new catfish dead and litterally couldnt see any of then plants or any of the fish swimming about.

it was like someone had tippeda whole loadof flour intothe water very wierd and it came from nowhere.

so chose the drastic mesure of pretty much a 90% water change which i thought would of see of the rest of the fish but thankfully it looks like they have sighed a breath of relief so now the tank looks bare as theres only 1plec 2 glass cats 6neons 4 female bettas 2guppies 2cherry barbs a pair of gouramis and my 2 lil frogs

most the fish are sticking together apart form my girls nd the lovely couple


so big water change took rougly 2 hours to do alltogether i just hope that this mysterious white haze doesnt bloom up again

 

[jakeroberts]

sounds like you had on hell of a night, lets hope that white haze doesnt come back

 

[AJGray]

your telling me was gutted about the loosing more was bad enough loosing 4 fish through saturday night

but to loosse the new cat was unreal going to get another one coz they are class

 

[bubblesburst80]

thats really bad news, hopefully you caught it in time and no more harm will be done

xXx

 

[CFC]

Had you just added new fish to the tank or fed a little too much that evening?

It sounds like you experienced a bacterial bloom, a sudden surge of ammonia triggers a huge increase of bacteria which floats in the water collumn as there is not enough room on the surfaces for all the bacteria to attach to. This sudden increase in bacteria drains the dissolved oxygen from the water.

 

[AJGray]

yeah we added the new catfish and a pair of gouramis when the haze happened we immediatly check levels and they were spot on even the ammonia hadnt over fed they hadnt been fed the day before so i gave them a packet of bloodworm and the left overs of the daphnia that i had given to parma and stripe

 

[CFC]

You wouldnt see the ammonia with a bacterial bloom, the rapidly multiplying bacteria use it up almost instantly.

Is this the new 3 foot long tank in your profile?

 

[AJGray]

aha but i must change that as the fish have changed oooops

i do know i cant keep black neons so not going to attepmt them again

 

[Leitch]

Whats wrong with black neons?

 

[AJGray]

everytime we get them they die within days

we lost 2 thirds of our tank last night

 

[CageUK]

This sounds suspiciously like a problem we had the other night ...see topic http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=213862

We put it down to a bad lot of Jelly Daphnia feed which poisoned the water, but it could have equally been something like this!

These sachets are not that big but if the food was off as well and spiked the ammonia so much as to cause a bloom that would explain it. Like you I checked the stats and there was no ammonia present but then if the white hazey water was actually bacteria then that would account for that reading.

The symptoms where just like there was no oxygen in the water and a water change plus another the following morning got the tank back on it's feet (fins) again. I got away with just one loss (however it was a gorgeous Pim that I lost).

So my suggestion would be to water change it out. Even once it had all seemed to clear up I did another water change just to be on the safe side and all is fine and dandy again (until the next crisis that is)!

Cheers

 

[AJGray]

i put bloodworm in big tank and daphnia but only put daph in small tank... so it could of been dodgy bloodworm!!

 

[CageUK]

It kinda makes you paranoid doesn't it!

We threw both the Jelly Daphnia and the Jelly Bloodworm in the bin that night, not wanting to chance it happening again!

 

[AJGray]

yeah going to stick to frozen bloodworm from now on

 

[afishdude]

the frozen is the ones hes talking about...