So what killed the new Angels in 24 hours

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Okay, I thought my 90G was stable enough, so when I saw a couple of cute Angels at Petsmart, I picked up two. 24 hours later they are both dead.

What did I do wrong?

Tank specs:

Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 10
PH 6.6
Temp 79F

I did normalized the tempature of the water they were in for 20 minutes and then placed them in the tank.

The both looked fine this morning.

The 24 Red-Eye Tetras and the 12 Marble Hatchets are doing fine. I have lost none of them. Even during the fishy cycle. I seeded well.

THoughts?
 
Many know far more than I, your pH is a bit low. Could a large gap between pH parameters have caused too much shock/stress??? Aside from this, I would have to say the fish themselves were over stressed or were carrying a pathogen at the time of purchase...

Sorry I can't add more than that for you :(
 
check with the chiclid forum because I remember reading something about angels and petsmart about a week ago.
 
I would have placed them in a QT tank first and done a slow drip acclimation with them. What is the pH of the LFS water?
 
angels, especially ones from petsmart, can be very fragile upon entering a new environment. test your tap water. if the petsmart is near you, chances are the pH of your tap water is the same as theirs, and there could be a huge jump between them, causing severe stress.
 
I just went back and tested my tap water 7.2. I tested the water coming out of the filter I do water changes with 7.2.

What is causing my tank to have a low ph?

It used to be a reaf tank, but I cleaned it well. Or so I thought.

I use Prime as my main water conditioner and Amonia-Lock while I was fishy cycling.

I did add a Algone packet to the sump several days ago. Could that have affected my ph?
 
PH is fine for angels. I would say it was your acclimation process. When acclimating new fish, not only do you need to get them adjusted to the temperature of the tank water, but also to your PH and other "invisible" water parameters. This is done by slowly adding tank water to the water your fish were purchased in. Such as the drip acclimation RB spoke about, or placing the fish in a seprate bucket or container and adding a bit of tank water over the course of a period of time , of which depends on the difference in water parameters from origin to destination. Then netting the fish out and placing them in the main tank.

Your angels most likely died from osmotic shock.

Blue
 
The tank has one large piece of driftwood with some Xmas Moss on and is 3 smaller pieces holding down some java fern.

How long to drip acclimate? Just a guess is fine, all have available right now as a separate tank is a 2.5G. Would that work for a couple quarter size angels?

The Algone was never a long-term solution for my tank (My other tanks don't have it), a friend recommend it during the initial cycles found it helpful. I read alot about and never saw anything bad.
 
you don't need a large tank if you are using the tank for hospital/quarantine.

10-20 gal if fine for most angels (I lean more to a 20 but...)

you are only going to be keeping them there for a few weeks..and you can do daily water changes if you need to.

I would concur with the drip acclimation..use airline tubing with a valve in...use the valve to regulate the flow.
6.6 or 7.2 is fine for angels.

did you test the tap 24-48 hrs after drawing the water?

driftwood can alter pH..
 
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