I lost one of my panda corys from the Panda QT tank. So went to the fish room, nitrates were at 0./0.2 or something, I was stressed and the fish shop guy said it wasn't enough to kill the poor fish and as everything else was ok that it was probably nitrates in the tap water. Come to find out it was. So I got some Tetra Nitrate remover, and treated my panda tank with them on Saturday. I also treated QT1 (four 1 inch sterbai, one 1 inch peppered) and QT2 (five 1 inch sterbai) as well as Wonkey and Lumpy's tank.
Today, I went into the fish room to find two dead pandas from the panda QT tank, and 1 sterbai in QT2 displaying swimbladder symptoms (slowly falling to the side, swimming like mad, stopping, back end floating, whole fish floats up, swim like mad, settle on bottom, start tilting sideways and doing the whole process over again) 1 sterbai and 1 peppered in QT2 doing the same, 2 panda in Panda QT doing the same, Wonkey doing the same, and to really break the pattern, 1 panda in my main panda tank doing the same.
I noticed the one in the downstairs panda main tank fish first about 2 hours ago, instantly tested the water (pH 7.4, Amm0, Nitrate0, Nitrite0) so did a 50% WC and treated with half dose of swimbladder treatment. Within 30 mins the panda went back to normal. Thinking nothing more of it I went about normal life.
About an hour ago I went up to the fish room and noticed the fish in Panda QT, QT1, QT2, and Wonkey and Lumpy's tank all doing the same, again I did 50% WC (more on QT1 and QT2) and treated with swimbladder stuff. They seemed to have all settled down again. All the tests were between pH 7.2-7.4 with Amm, Nitrate, and Nitrite all 0 except the panda QT which was pH 7.2, Nitrate 0.5, Nitrite 0 and Amm 0. All of the tanks are well cycled and have been running for months before these fish went in.
All of the fish except for the pandas in the main tank I got in the last 2 weeks.
So, except for the main panda tank, EVERY tank I treated with this nitrate remover had dead fish or very ill fish. None show any other symptoms, and the dead fish were NOT floating. I didn't even notice they were dead until another fish knocked one over on its side, so I got him out, started tank changes and noticed another had fallen over. (most of my pandas seem to die and stay upright for some bazaar reason, so now I have to look for gill movement to do life checks on them)
I would think its the nitrate remover that's done this. I am wondering if I did put nitrate remover in the tank downstairs, but I am sure I didn't. I'm just wondering if the water change set everything right, or if fish from 5 different tanks (which came from different shops and different tanks) all come down with the same symptoms all at once. I haven't done anything else different. I do all of my water changes at the same time on most tanks, all the tanks above got water changes on wednesday and the other tanks I did changes on at the same time but haven't used the nitrate remover in are fine except the main panda tank.
Any ideas?? I'm stumped and really worried about the other fish. I've turned out all the lights and treated the fish as I said above, but I have no idea what else to do for them.
Thanks in advance!
Today, I went into the fish room to find two dead pandas from the panda QT tank, and 1 sterbai in QT2 displaying swimbladder symptoms (slowly falling to the side, swimming like mad, stopping, back end floating, whole fish floats up, swim like mad, settle on bottom, start tilting sideways and doing the whole process over again) 1 sterbai and 1 peppered in QT2 doing the same, 2 panda in Panda QT doing the same, Wonkey doing the same, and to really break the pattern, 1 panda in my main panda tank doing the same.
I noticed the one in the downstairs panda main tank fish first about 2 hours ago, instantly tested the water (pH 7.4, Amm0, Nitrate0, Nitrite0) so did a 50% WC and treated with half dose of swimbladder treatment. Within 30 mins the panda went back to normal. Thinking nothing more of it I went about normal life.
About an hour ago I went up to the fish room and noticed the fish in Panda QT, QT1, QT2, and Wonkey and Lumpy's tank all doing the same, again I did 50% WC (more on QT1 and QT2) and treated with swimbladder stuff. They seemed to have all settled down again. All the tests were between pH 7.2-7.4 with Amm, Nitrate, and Nitrite all 0 except the panda QT which was pH 7.2, Nitrate 0.5, Nitrite 0 and Amm 0. All of the tanks are well cycled and have been running for months before these fish went in.
All of the fish except for the pandas in the main tank I got in the last 2 weeks.
So, except for the main panda tank, EVERY tank I treated with this nitrate remover had dead fish or very ill fish. None show any other symptoms, and the dead fish were NOT floating. I didn't even notice they were dead until another fish knocked one over on its side, so I got him out, started tank changes and noticed another had fallen over. (most of my pandas seem to die and stay upright for some bazaar reason, so now I have to look for gill movement to do life checks on them)
I would think its the nitrate remover that's done this. I am wondering if I did put nitrate remover in the tank downstairs, but I am sure I didn't. I'm just wondering if the water change set everything right, or if fish from 5 different tanks (which came from different shops and different tanks) all come down with the same symptoms all at once. I haven't done anything else different. I do all of my water changes at the same time on most tanks, all the tanks above got water changes on wednesday and the other tanks I did changes on at the same time but haven't used the nitrate remover in are fine except the main panda tank.
Any ideas?? I'm stumped and really worried about the other fish. I've turned out all the lights and treated the fish as I said above, but I have no idea what else to do for them.
Thanks in advance!
