Dead Fish

[tenlientl]

I feel very guilty about this since I let it stay in the small bucket with heater/filter for a while since we're still laminating floors. Anyways, it got sucked up the filter again(third time, I bet it's the same one). It died, I see small broken remains in the foam. What should I do about that? I rinsed it out, would that be fine. Will this be hurting other fish?

 

[OrionGirl]

How long was the fish in there? Was this an established filter? Healthy fish should be able to avoid being sucked into the filter--unless you have juvenile fish, or the filter is massively too large for the container. I've run AC300's on 5 gallon tanks without problems.

For the other fish--if you rinsed the filter in tap water (ie, with chlorine/chloramine), you could have killed off some of the bacteria. Otherwise, it shouldn't be a problem for them at all. But you'll want to determine what killed that fish; it could have been ammonia or nitrites, under the circumstances, in which case the other fish may be in trouble as well.

 

[tenlientl]

I believe it got killed because it got sucked up the filter. This is a cycling tank. My second week will start tomorrow.

Anyways, the tank is kinda stinky now when close. It's toleratable, but still isn't a good thing. It's a White Cloud. It was probably dead for 1-2 days. I've been gone since Monday, and I just found out it's dead.

Also, is an AquaClear 150 good enough for a 20 gallon tank? It was in the kit, I hope it will work great with it.

 

[sdb]

I've always had an AQ150 in my 20gal. It works great and is very effective, even though my tank's a little overstocked. No problems, though.

 

[StreetCypher]

I suggest doing a 50% water change. Or you could do a few consecutive 30% or so water changes.