What The Hell Is Happening?

[RipSlider]

Argh!!

My tank has gone berserk. I have no idea what on earth to do.

Situation is as follows.

My stats:
Amm: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: about 10ppm
P.h, 7.3


I got 6 glow light tetra's today at about 10:30. They have been at the LFS for about 2 weeks.

The LFS has almost identical water to me, although their pH is 7.5.

I did the additions as normal, leaving the bag to settle, then adding water, waiting, adding, waiting, then adding to the tank.

As soon as I added the water, the tank became full of tiny white spec's. Almost like lime scale spec's. They are not organic, as I've captured a few. I ignored it at the time.

The glowlights didn't move at all for about 6 hours, just hung as a shoal in exactly the same place and did nothing.

Then my cory's started to go berserk. my julii died in about 15 minutes one of my shwartzi's 1/2 hour after that. By this time I'd got a quartinee tank set up ( I was already running an extra small internal ready for 2x dwarf puffers ).

Now the other two cory's are in the second tank, and look like they are having a fit, they're bouncing all over the place. A couple of my WCMM's look a bit odd as well.

The glowlights are now acting like nothing has happened, and are crusing around with the rest of my WCMM's.

I can't find anything like this in any of my books that would make cory's react like this. Maybe septacemia, but I can't see any cause of this.

The only other time that I have tried today is a new feed, called "cichlid feed", which is a frozen mix of veg, bloodworm, tiny bits of mussel, daphnia etc etc.

I've done a 75% water change as well.


What do I do???

Steve
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[tttnjfttt]

I have no clue what is happening although i would suggest keeping up on the water changes to help remove whatever it is.

 

[steelhealr]

Did you dump the lfs water into your tank? SH

 

[Torrean]

Kindof stupid question but what is the temp in your tank? Is there a lot of salt in your tank? kinda grasping at straws here. hmm any bumps wounds fin damage we should know about?

 

[RipSlider]

Tank size is a three foot tank, but wider than normal.

My stats, barring being 0.3 pH less, are identical to the LFS. They have even lent me a tropical kit to do tests like phosphate and calcium.

The water from the LFS was placed in the tank, yes.


The "bits" look like some sort of calcium formation. I've added some Filter Aid to try and clear it, but it still looks like a snowstorm in my tank, just not as bad.

Tank has been running for about three months now, and the cory's have been for almost all of that time. Today the WCMM's are looking OK, but a couple of the glowlights look very odd and not happy at all. They are now in the quarentiee tank as well.

Temp hasn't moved from between 23.5 and 23.8 for the life of the tank. I keep it around 1/2 degree cooler for the minnows.

The tank is still being odd. The WCMM's are back to trying to mate and breed again, as though everything was completely fine.

I would put it down to NTS if it weren't for the fact that everything degenerated SO rapidly. The corys were perfect one minute and then started to have what looked like a fit.

There are no bumps and wounds on any of the fish in the new tank. The cory's that are left have beaten themselves up pretty badly with all the fitting they are doing.

There is no sign of ich, velvet, fungus or anything else that I can see.

Steve

 

[Phoenixfish]

ever thought there might have been some form of medication in the lfs water?

 

[WILDER]

I would ask the lfs if they have added and meds to there tanks, plus watch out for signs of parasites.
Plus make sure they have not been using any chemicals near the bags they put the fish in.

 

[steelhealr]

Although it may not have been the cause, I would never dump the bag of water from the lfs into your tank. Besides, it doesn't sound like you quarantined your new fish prior to adding them.....that is ALWAYS the safest thing to do. SH