OK. This is kind of a long story. But it is very puzzling to me.
My friend buys 46g bow and furnishes with onyx sand substrate, petrified wood and lots of plants. Her hard/high ph well water goes through an industrial strength carbon filter and water softener before adding to the tank. She does fishless cycling, goes through the bad odor stage, and has lots and lots of algae all over everything. Once all ammonia nitrites/nitrates are at 0, she adds fish. She is VERY unhappy about the algae. Purchases 2 algae eaters, one died, 3 flying foxes (thinking they were SAE's), 2 died; the 3 silver hatchets, 2 marble hatchets, 3 tri-color sharks and 3 jewel tetras are fine.
Next day everyone is settled and happy. Tri-color sharks love algae, BTW. Thinking that the deaths are to be blamed on bad stock/choices, she purchases one more algae eater which does fine. She places in her african driftwood which had been soaking for over 3 weeks. We add 2 glo-fish, three guppies and 2 mature SAEs. These last 7 fish were from my tank and did very well.
The next day, I gave her 5 more glo-fish and 9 very young 1/2" guppies. They show no signs of stress. None of the fish are showing any stress and are all eating and interacting happily.
Here is the puzzler (or maybe the answer). She does a 50% water change to help alleviate the greeness of the tank. 3 hours later and after cleaning her house and spraying Febreeze around due to incoming guests. (the tank top is very tight, almost no airgap). One guppy is dead, one guppy is swimming end over end, one SAE is laying on its back gasping. The glo-fish are now glowing green but are fine. All the other fish are fine.
She takes the guppy and SAE and puts them in her Qtank. The guppy recovers. I take both my SAE's back home (now they have to re-adjust back to my water). But it appears as though the SAE has recovered. He layed on his back for quite a while but now is turned over and is beginning to swim around again.
I have done 50% water changes in my tank with no problems ever. In fact, I did four 50% water changes in one week with no problems. She only lives four houses from me. However, I do not have any filtration/softening on my well.
She had similar poisoning in her Qtank. MTS have never been able to survive in either of her tanks.
Thanks for reading this long story. My question is WHAT IS POISONING HER FISH?
My friend buys 46g bow and furnishes with onyx sand substrate, petrified wood and lots of plants. Her hard/high ph well water goes through an industrial strength carbon filter and water softener before adding to the tank. She does fishless cycling, goes through the bad odor stage, and has lots and lots of algae all over everything. Once all ammonia nitrites/nitrates are at 0, she adds fish. She is VERY unhappy about the algae. Purchases 2 algae eaters, one died, 3 flying foxes (thinking they were SAE's), 2 died; the 3 silver hatchets, 2 marble hatchets, 3 tri-color sharks and 3 jewel tetras are fine.
Next day everyone is settled and happy. Tri-color sharks love algae, BTW. Thinking that the deaths are to be blamed on bad stock/choices, she purchases one more algae eater which does fine. She places in her african driftwood which had been soaking for over 3 weeks. We add 2 glo-fish, three guppies and 2 mature SAEs. These last 7 fish were from my tank and did very well.
The next day, I gave her 5 more glo-fish and 9 very young 1/2" guppies. They show no signs of stress. None of the fish are showing any stress and are all eating and interacting happily.
Here is the puzzler (or maybe the answer). She does a 50% water change to help alleviate the greeness of the tank. 3 hours later and after cleaning her house and spraying Febreeze around due to incoming guests. (the tank top is very tight, almost no airgap). One guppy is dead, one guppy is swimming end over end, one SAE is laying on its back gasping. The glo-fish are now glowing green but are fine. All the other fish are fine.
She takes the guppy and SAE and puts them in her Qtank. The guppy recovers. I take both my SAE's back home (now they have to re-adjust back to my water). But it appears as though the SAE has recovered. He layed on his back for quite a while but now is turned over and is beginning to swim around again.
I have done 50% water changes in my tank with no problems ever. In fact, I did four 50% water changes in one week with no problems. She only lives four houses from me. However, I do not have any filtration/softening on my well.
She had similar poisoning in her Qtank. MTS have never been able to survive in either of her tanks.
Thanks for reading this long story. My question is WHAT IS POISONING HER FISH?
