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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
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.
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.
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.
I guess the fish didn't mind. Thank god it's summer
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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
I guess the fish didn't mind. Thank god it's summer 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. 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.
Cheers Kath 
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