calihawker
06-25-2009, 09:29 PM
I guess I should report my first mishap. Actually two. The first was on Tuesday. I did the usuall evening water change and after it was done all the fish were gasping at the surface, they were breating heavily and their color was way off. 2 were laying on their sides at the surface. Needless to say I FREAKED:shocked2: I couldn't think of anything that could have caused it. The only remedy I could think of was to do another 100% w/c and or add an airstone. I did both. The evening w/c happens at 9:00 pm and I didn't get to bed till after midnight and then got up several times thoughout the night to check on them.:sleep: It seemed to help right away and by the second morning feeding they were back to normal.
I have no idea what it was. We can all come up with possibilities all day long but there's just no way to prove anything. All water parameters were nominal.:confused:
The other mishap happened when I flooded the fish room during the morning water change yesterday. I didn't know what the problem was and I didn't have time to troubleshoot it so I shut down the controller that runs the auto w/c. Well I added the heater to the controller last week so I inadvertently shut off the heater.:mad: I guess the fish didn't mind. Thank god it's summer:angel: They had 2 feedings and ate with the same gusto before I put my hand in the tank and FREAKED again! I yelled at my wife that I was doing everything I can to kill my fish.:mad: The temp dropped to 79 degrees.
Also to report I yanked the canister filter since I was getting trace amounts of nitrites. I worked it out so the w/c water drains into a rubbermaid barrel that has the canister filter so it will be cycling the actual water from the tank with the same schedule of w/c.
With all that the fish are good. Great in fact. I took a video of hand feeding them today.:)
http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr356/calihawker/SD_Challenge/th_PICT0178.jpg (http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/rr356/calihawker/SD_Challenge/?action=view¤t=PICT0178.flv)
http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr356/calihawker/SD_Challenge/DSC01312.jpg
http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr356/calihawker/SD_Challenge/DSC01322.jpg
I have no idea what it was. We can all come up with possibilities all day long but there's just no way to prove anything. All water parameters were nominal.:confused:
The other mishap happened when I flooded the fish room during the morning water change yesterday. I didn't know what the problem was and I didn't have time to troubleshoot it so I shut down the controller that runs the auto w/c. Well I added the heater to the controller last week so I inadvertently shut off the heater.:mad: I guess the fish didn't mind. Thank god it's summer:angel: They had 2 feedings and ate with the same gusto before I put my hand in the tank and FREAKED again! I yelled at my wife that I was doing everything I can to kill my fish.:mad: The temp dropped to 79 degrees.
Also to report I yanked the canister filter since I was getting trace amounts of nitrites. I worked it out so the w/c water drains into a rubbermaid barrel that has the canister filter so it will be cycling the actual water from the tank with the same schedule of w/c.
With all that the fish are good. Great in fact. I took a video of hand feeding them today.:)
http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr356/calihawker/SD_Challenge/th_PICT0178.jpg (http://s499.photobucket.com/albums/rr356/calihawker/SD_Challenge/?action=view¤t=PICT0178.flv)
http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr356/calihawker/SD_Challenge/DSC01312.jpg
http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr356/calihawker/SD_Challenge/DSC01322.jpg