Urgent: Hyperventilating Kuhlis

[fishorama]

ADA soil releases significant amounts of ammonia for several weeks from what I've read. I wouldn't plan to add fish to that tank for a while.

I haven't used salt with kuhlis & probably wouldn't but the idea is different osmotic pressure will help reduce swelling & also prevent brown blood disease from nitrite. If you decide to add it, do it slowly over hours.

 

[Trigger1985]

I have 2 kuhlis, and have used aquarium salt in my tank at the recommeded dosage to no ill effects. They do in fact have scales, just very very tiny.

I keep hearing horror stories about loved ones buying fishes for birthdays and what not, and it always seems to be at just the wrong moment, I told mine not to ever buy me fish, becuase it seems to be a curse. Good luck

I'd use the maxium dosage of prime, and use the HOB with media from the other filter. Put a sponge on the outlet if it's churning up too much substate. Cloudy water is better than dead fish.

 

[DGalt]

ADA soil releases significant amounts of ammonia for several weeks from what I've read. I wouldn't plan to add fish to that tank for a while.

I haven't used salt with kuhlis & probably wouldn't but the idea is different osmotic pressure will help reduce swelling & also prevent brown blood disease from nitrite. If you decide to add it, do it slowly over hours.

luckily I only added what amounted to probably about 4 cups worth of AS, so hopefully the ammonia should clear within a week or so

I did a large enough WC today to get ammonia to 0ppm (thank God my water bill is covered in my rent lol). We'll see what the tank looks like when I get back next week.

Unfortunately the second 4 kuhlis that I got have all died. very sad, feel rather awful.

Oddly enough, the original two are still alive and relatively well. And they've been in the tank a good day longer than the others. The mysteries of fish keep I suppose :huh:

 

[Trigger1985]

The reason your current Kuhlis are doing better than the new ads, they were in the tank as the levels started to rise- allowing them to aclimate as the levels rose- where as the new kuhlis are going from presumable clean water to toxic in less then an hour (unless you drip acclimated them for a period of several hours that is). So the shock to their system as they tried to cope with the toxic levels was too great for them to manage.

 

[DGalt]

Well...I did the rescape/added the new aquasoil last Friday. The filter broke on Monday. And I received the fish on Tuesday and Wednesday. So that can't be the whole explanation, because I doubt there was a large difference in ammonia levels between Tuesday and Wednesday, especially since on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday I did water changes that ranged between 100% and probably about 500% (aqausoil is messy stuff and I'm impatient with water clarity).

 

[arachnar]

Sad to hear, losing 4 of these little guys can be hard I know when I lost a fish it always made me feel like I was a failure. I would like to have these in the future but I am definitely going to be careful.

 

[arachnar]

I have no experience with the ADA soil other than serious aquascapers tend to use it. It's probably a combination of factors as people mentioned stress or poor handling all lead to quick deaths for fish.