I decided to post this here because it gets more viewers, and I need to know the answers to the questions on the bottom of this post before I make anymore grave mistakes. Please give me your educated advice as to what I should do with the tank and equipment now that it has been contaminated.
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Re: Lyn's 46 gal. Bowfront, 2nd of 3
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I'm an idiot! I killed most of the fish in quarantine.
Last night I decided to do a 50% water change. We made sure the replacement water was the same temp as the water to be changed, but what I didn't account for was the old glass heater being exposed to the colder air.
This morning I got up and found the tank cloudy. When I turned on the light, the water was green, the heater was broken with all the inner workings laying on the bottom of the tank, and some of the fish were laying down and floating a little weirdly. I quickly set up a smaller tank with new water. I transfered the fish to the little tank, but all the fish perished except for the Ocellaris clowns. (Why would only the clowns survive?)
I am so sick about this. Especially since we were nearing the completion of quarantine for Ich with no losses. My kids are really sad. We have had the Royal Gramma and Pyjama Cardinal for 5 years, since My daughter was 3 yrs. old. We even mailed them from Hawaii to California because they were our pets.
I told the kids maybe we should go fishless. They said they wanted fish because they were the funniest part of the tank. I don't know, I'll have to see.
Here is a picture of the poisonous water of death...
Questions: 1. Is there copper in the water which causes the green color? And if so, why weren't the clowns as affected?
2. Can any of this equipment be used again?
Posts: 635
Re: Lyn's 46 gal. Bowfront, 2nd of 3
« Reply #13 on: Today at 10:17:59 PM » Quote Modify
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I'm an idiot! I killed most of the fish in quarantine.
Last night I decided to do a 50% water change. We made sure the replacement water was the same temp as the water to be changed, but what I didn't account for was the old glass heater being exposed to the colder air.
This morning I got up and found the tank cloudy. When I turned on the light, the water was green, the heater was broken with all the inner workings laying on the bottom of the tank, and some of the fish were laying down and floating a little weirdly. I quickly set up a smaller tank with new water. I transfered the fish to the little tank, but all the fish perished except for the Ocellaris clowns. (Why would only the clowns survive?)
I am so sick about this. Especially since we were nearing the completion of quarantine for Ich with no losses. My kids are really sad. We have had the Royal Gramma and Pyjama Cardinal for 5 years, since My daughter was 3 yrs. old. We even mailed them from Hawaii to California because they were our pets.
I told the kids maybe we should go fishless. They said they wanted fish because they were the funniest part of the tank. I don't know, I'll have to see.
Here is a picture of the poisonous water of death...
Questions: 1. Is there copper in the water which causes the green color? And if so, why weren't the clowns as affected?
2. Can any of this equipment be used again?