Tank Crash

iceboxman · 04-17-2002, 12:29 PM

Well, I went to move my fish out of my hospital tank and back to my main tank and only found 1 fish. It was barely alive and I moved and acclimated it. It however, died within a few hours

. I found the other fish carcasses buried it the mat of cyano in the hospital tank

. Needless to say, I cleaned out the algae and will wait for the ammonia to go down. I now have 0 fish

. Only inverts in my main tank. I'll need to restock soon.

PJenkins · 04-17-2002, 01:34 PM

Sorry you lost your fish

What do you think happened?

iceboxman · 04-17-2002, 02:44 PM

Mostly not checking the fish out often enough

. I just fed them and checked occasionally. After one died, it was a chain reaction of ammonia spikes. I was at least hoping to save the last fish (Hmmm...sounds like a movie).

GSM · 04-17-2002, 02:47 PM

Sorry for the loss

Not to be a ****, but-

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I'll need to restock soon.

Maybe you should let things stabilize a bit? Less stress for you & future fish in the long run...

Good luck!

iceboxman · 04-17-2002, 02:55 PM

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Originally posted by GSM

Maybe you should let things stabilize a bit? Less stress for you & future fish in the long run...

Good luck!

Thanks for the concern

It was my hospital tank that crashed. I know I have to let that one restabilize, but my main tank is fine. It has had no fish in it for about a month, so there are no diseases in it. I can just add new fish into there and they should be fine.

GSM · 04-17-2002, 04:18 PM

Oh ok, my bad!

What kind of fish are you gonna restock with?

Hermit · 04-17-2002, 04:27 PM

Sorry for your loss. Hope the restocking goes well.

iceboxman · 04-17-2002, 05:24 PM

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Originally posted by GSM
Oh ok, my bad!

What kind of fish are you gonna restock with?

I'm not sure yet. I'm going to think about that for a while before I get them All I had was damsels and a chromis before, and one of the damsels was unwanted. Well, I guess it's like starting over. Maybe I'll read some more of my copy of 'The consciencious marine aquarist' before deciding.