stribbelldk Posted July 4, 2009 Report Share Posted July 4, 2009 Hey. I came home yesterday and decided to do a water change on the 5 tanks. I usually do about a 50% every 10 day, and have been doing this for 2 years. yesterday I only did a 35% WC because I was out of Prime and was feeling too lazy to go buy some,. I did use a franchise name brand "multi-purpose Bio-support" that removes nitrate ammonia and chlorine from water. After all the WCs, I thought I would treat the fish to some mysis shrimp. The Mysis shrimp are about a year old but I soaked them in garlic for taste. I woke up this morning and went looking at my fish. My 90 of cichlids is fine, the 15 with Tangs is fine, the hospital/nursury is fine, the 50 with sunshine peacock and goldheads are fine, but the syno and fry tank was not. I had 5 dead synodontis petricola and 5 dead electric blue fry. I had about 15 synos, 7 electric yellows under 2" and a boat load of electric blue fry(50-60). I immediately removed all the dead fish and did a test to the tank. ph 7.8, nitrite 0, ammonia 0, but the nitrate is about 20-30 ppm. I know this is a little high but I am worried if I do more water changes, I will get the same results. Dead fish. Could this be from the water quality, the shrimp, the water changesor something else??? As you see I could transfer fish to different tank but if it is the fish and not the water...... Do I ride the storm and pray for no more causulties??? Comment sugestions?? Derek If you will excuse me now, I have a funeral to attend to.... :cry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvision Posted July 4, 2009 Report Share Posted July 4, 2009 S. petricola seem to be a little more sensitive than most fish, IME... and fry as well. You may have had an ammonia spike when you did the WC that took the filter a little bit to process. I'd get some more Prime before doing another WC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stribbelldk Posted July 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2009 Thanks Jason. That is kinda what I was thinking but wanted confirmation. Derek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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