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This happened to me once. The decoration i had in my tank wasnt meant for aquaria and it leached out harmful plastic resins and killed my whole tank over the course of 5-6 days but they were feeder fish, do u notice anything black or brown on ur substrate or decor?? It sounds to me like contamination unless ur fish have signs for parasites and or desease, sounds like crappy luck but u have to figure it out!

Hang in there man, and what about stray voltage currents?

Can u post a pic of ur setup, sometimes it helps to have a pair of fresh eyes!
 
F1 VET said:
This happened to me once. The decoration i had in my tank wasnt meant for aquaria and it leached out harmful plastic resins and killed my whole tank over the course of 5-6 days but they were feeder fish, do u notice anything black or brown on ur substrate or decor?? It sounds to me like contamination unless ur fish have signs for parasites and or desease, sounds like crappy luck but u have to figure it out!

Hang in there man, and what about stray voltage currents?

Can u post a pic of ur setup, sometimes it helps to have a pair of fresh eyes!
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No stray voltage or currents. I think I have some sort of disease as if it was chemicals I would see more of a simultaneous die of I think instead of this fish or two a day thing. I see no illness though. I don't get any indication of voltage in the tank.

I've taken the conversation here:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...mmunity-tank&p=5597565&highlight=#post5597565
 
Man its the gravel, the bacteria from the old gravel sitting in a bucket in stabile temps not boiled will spread and thrive the bacteria. It needed boiling or vinegar to kill whatever it has that killed ur last tank.

Ive been following this thread from the beggining. Get fish out, drain tank, throw away substrate once and for all, clean tank and anything else u want to reuse with hot water and vinegar. Put it all back together with good filter media and there ya go.

Its contaminated man.

Goodluck
 
F1 VET said:
Man its the gravel, the bacteria from the old gravel sitting in a bucket in stabile temps not boiled will spread and thrive the bacteria. It needed boiling or vinegar to kill whatever it has that killed ur last tank.

Ive been following this thread from the beggining. Get fish out, drain tank, throw away substrate once and for all, clean tank and anything else u want to reuse with hot water and vinegar. Put it all back together with good filter media and there ya go.

Its contaminated man.

Goodluck
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Thanks, I had this notion cementing in my mind. Will my inverts be carriers you think, what about my plants? I can move them into a bucket with an air stone etc. I'm so scared at this point I don't know the smoothest move and how to limit my losses.
 
kamikaziechameleon said:
Thanks, I had this notion cementing in my mind. Will my inverts be carriers you think, what about my plants? I can move them into a bucket with an air stone etc. I'm so scared at this point I don't know the smoothest move and how to limit my losses.
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I dont think they will contaminate a tank but possibly will die down the road. But putting ur fish or inverts in a 5gal bucket with dechlorinator will save them meanwhile get the tank and filter and whatever else touched water cleaned with boiling water or vinegar!!
They will get better hopefully but the plants id clean off with warmer water and maybe just ditch em incase. Throw the gravel in the yard or something!!

Glad we figured this out

Now we rebuild!

Cheers
 
I have like 80 dollars in new live plants I really want to save, would dipping them in bleach or something suffice? Can you do that with live plants, think I read it somewhere. My maracyn shipment is close would that be bad for my inverts I'd like to put everyone in one tank with UV filtration, no gravel and dose maracyn 1 and 2, maybe even add salt. Then move them back into the 30 gallon.

I grabbed a 20 gallon from downstairs, put near boiling water in the tank and put all 4 of the filters in there after cleaning them to let them run it through, then added a whole bottle of vinegar to the tank. threw out all the cartridges. Tomorrow I'm going to move the fish, inverts, and plants(assuming ok) in to a tank for further treatment. Wow brought home 18 fish have 6 left :(
 
If their non live plants then hot hot water will work for real ones im not sure. Maybe let them be in a bucket with water for now untill ur setups ready to go. Id think ur pets are fine i wouldnt add any chemicals! And if u gotto a hardware store they have 50lbs bags of river pebble for 5$!
 
Set them in a fish bowl i mean they may not even have what was in the substrate. Who knows
 
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