We are not new to freshwater aquariums, but the problem I am having is very new to me. I recently got rid of my 15 year old 80 gallon Oceanic tank and replaced it with a new bow front 45 gallon which fits better in our new house. Same wet dry filter, ornaments, etc. New tank and rocks. Broke down the 80, set up the 45, moved the wet dry filter hoping to maintain the years of good bacteria moved the fish and within 2 weeks everything was dead. I have tested for ammonia and everything shows good. Standard Amquel water, etc. After it all died I did a partial 50% water change and waited 2 weeks just filtering the water with no fish. Today I added 6 fish to the tank and within 5 hours all were dead. Does anyone have any ideas??? Help!!!
Everything is dying
- Thread starter Ken Hoff
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cyberbeer65
Scratch Glass!
I think all of your benificial bacteria may have died off while you were filtering for two weeks with no fish in there?
Also,please give some actual numbers of your water parameters,as people will be able to help you better.
Also,please give some actual numbers of your water parameters,as people will be able to help you better.
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cyberbeer65 said:
Is that possible for the fish to die in such a short amount of time because the tank is possibly not cycled?
Ken have you tested you water parameters( ammonia, nitirites, nitrates, and ph)? I thik you have something in you tank that poisoned your fish for them to die in only 5 hours.
cyberbeer65
Scratch Glass!
that's very strange. i'm sure you preserved the bacteria the first time. running it empty for 2 weeks would have killed most of them off, but that wouldn't cause a fish death. heck, you can throw fish into an uncycled tank and wait a good week until they start getting sick. i agree with poisoning, but not by organic toxins. running the tank empty would have completely gotten rid of any organic toxins in the water. no more would ahve gotten in there before the ew fish were added. it seems like there may be some kind of outside chemical in the water. maybe from the tank itself (did they give it a nice cleaning with windex every week in the store? maybe they had to spray for bugs?) or maybe from the rocks. what kind of rocks? what's so strange is that the original fish took so long to succomb while the new fish went down very very quickly. is it possible that something has changed in your water supply and the timing is pure coincidence? did you use a lot of the old water when switching to the new tank or did you fill it with all new water?
at this point i think you need to start over. break it down, rinse everything well. sorry.
at this point i think you need to start over. break it down, rinse everything well. sorry.