I found out the hard way and made soup.

[gtk68]

Hi all

I made leopard SS and ocean green discus soup last night. I had one big heater instead of two small ones and last night the temp jumped to 101 f*. I got up this morning and found all my discus dead on the bottom, 2 leopard snakes, (one of which was as sweet as any I have ever seen, and one average one), a blue diamond, and a real pretty ocean green. all were 5-6 inches in size and about to be moved to a bigger tank. Worst thing is I knew better then to have one big heater. I feel so bad for cooking them alive. So any of you out there breaking this simple rule, don' t learn the hard way like me.

Gordon

[brewmaster15]

Sorry to hear that Gordon,
Its a terrible sight to see that happen to your fish.

-al

[swvadiscus]

:'( thats terrible....sorry.........


How big was your tank and what was the brand and size of the heater?

[DiscusinDaytona]

Very sorry to hear your news. :'( Was it a new heater?

Tina

[jim_shedden]

Very sorry to hear that

jim

[crazy4discus]

sorrie to hear also

[korbi_doc]

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( So sorry, a terrible nightmare!!!

Dottie

[gtk68]

Hay guys

Thanks for the comments. Worse part is, I new better. The heater was a 1 month old Pro Heat 300W Titanium Heater in a 30 gal. tank. "I know, stupid stupid me". My 2 old 150 watt small heaters couldn't keep up the temp in winter(65*f in my basement) and $$$ was tight that week so instead of 2 new small ones for 40.00 I paid 25.00 for one big one to save money. Some savings, $420.00 for two shipments last October, about 10,000 water changes, an angry wife mad about getting her socks wet every night as I changed water and many 2.5 hour round trips to Randal B's house for brine shrimp and bloodworms. The best fish was a leopard snake skin and it looked like he was off of a discus poster or breeders website. Plus all being just short of a year old they spent most of the time doing the horny discus shuffle, I was pricing some breeding cones last night, and woke up to this nightmare.

Thanks guys
Gordon

[M0oN]

Sheesh Gordon, that's some bad luck right there...really sorry to hear about it...hope it doesn't discourage you too much from getting right back into things, though.

[Don_Lee]

Sorry to hear Gordon.... :'(

[Barb Newell]

Sorry Gordon.

Barb

[Moon]

I understand exactly how you must feel. This happened to me two months ago I fried six beautifull Altum angels.

[Jeff]

Gordon,

I'm very sorry to hear that.

[1977]

I truly feel for you. I lost a leopard today because I diagnosed his sickness wrong and that was terrible, I can't imagine losing multiple discus from my mistake. :-[

[April]

very sad..sorry to hear. dont give up..regroup..and try again.
theres alot of setbacks in discus keeping..but how can you have none??
well hope you get more and have better luck.

[xen]

Hello Gordon,

I'm very sorry for your loss. It's awful losing any pet.

Chin up. I hope you have a nice tank of bright little juves soon.

Cheers!
John

[mattrox]

That is sad to hear. A tragic event is always a great shock!