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agreed about the airstone not doing much but if thats all you have breaking surface tension then it was all the fish would have had and removing it would mean a death sentance. filter spray bars break surface tension in my tank, like most people.
give him a slap for taking the airstone out when he had no business messing with the tank other than feeding.
its unlucky mate.
 
dirtyblacksocks;2043326; said:
When temps get above about 82 air stones are necessary...
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Around 82-84, the airstone is the only thing breaking the surface as that tank is in my room and if the spraybar was above water level or breaking it it gets too noisey....
 
davidefc;2043493; said:
Around 82-84, the airstone is the only thing breaking the surface as that tank is in my room and if the spraybar was above water level or breaking it it gets too noisey....
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in that case, like i said before, give him a slap for messing with stuff that he had no business doing anything to. and make him pay for the fish cos no doubt they cost a pretty penny.
 
Man that sucks sorry! I know how it feels. I let my sister tend to my tanks while I was on a bike trip and come back to find me favorite fish at the time dead. My motaguense which was about 8-9 inch a couple FM's and my brute male salvini. I told her to do at least a 15% waterchange on one of the tanks (a 40 gallon) which was my motags home because thats the only one I didn't do a 75% waterchange on and she didn't. I have the tank piped to a waterchanging sump to so all she needed to do was turn it on and it would of went automatically. I was gone for 12 days so you can imagine what the nitrates were when I was gone. I think they were around 35ppm. when the tank never used to go over 10ppm. I feel for you man tough break.
 
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cichlid2006;2043597; said:
in that case, like i said before, give him a slap for messing with stuff that he had no business doing anything to. and make him pay for the fish cos no doubt they cost a pretty penny.
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:ROFL:Pay for the fish, if you knew him you wouldnt say that, but i will do more than slap him when the chance arises:D, iam much stronger than my older brother.... Yeah not a cheap fish, i had offers over £100 for her. Thing is she showed good colour without a male in the tank which isnt common in festae.
Cross127;2043626; said:
Man that sucks sorry! I know how it feels. I let my sister tend to my tanks while I was on a bike trip and come back to find me favorite fish at the time dead. My motaguense which was about 8-9 inch a couple FM's and my brute male salvini. I told her to do at least a 15% waterchange on one of the tanks (a 40 gallon) which was my motags home because thats the only one I didn't do a 75% waterchange on and she didn't. I have the tank piped to a waterchanging sump to so all she needed to do was turn it on and it would of went automatically. I was gone for 12 days so you can imagine what the nitrates were when I was gone. I think they were around 35ppm. when the tank never used to go over 10ppm. I feel for you man tough break.
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Sorry mate, sounds bad, i got told he also killed my Jack dempsey pair(favourite fish) i was about to quit, until i got home and found out they were ok it was the clown loaches which died.
 
Modest_Man;2043168; said:
Airstones really don't do crap, as long as you have a filter running you've got plenty oxygen exchange.

Oxygen exchange only happen on the surface of the water, so when the bubble break the surface and agitate the water, some o2 exchange happens, but it isn't much.

So it was most likely something else.
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Only if the return is breaking/agitating the surface. On my 156g tank I run an FX-5 plus 2 Rena xP3's and a AC110 hob. If my hob stops running, it doesn't take long for all the fish to start gasping as it's the only filter breaking the surface.
 
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